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Rambam Philosophy Warning

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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skip the skip the foundational teachings of our sages and just go jump into the world of philosophy and justify themselves by saying no no we're learning that's the Ramban who says you're allowed to study it at your level and the Ramban says this is not something That's for everybody. In fact, the Rambam himself says the Ramban wrote in the book, do not explain it or publicize it. At the outset of the book, he writes, "I solemnly charge any reader of this book in the name of God, bless be he, not to add any explanations even to a single word, nor to explain to any other to another any portion of it, except such passages as have been fully treated by the sages of our Torah that are pointed out by name." But he must not teach this to others. anything that he has learned from my work alone and that has not been either too discussed by any of other other or other authorities of blessed memory. Here the Ramban says even the Rambam when he wrote this book he didn't write this book for everyone to learn it at every yeshiva this was the kiru book of the time for a very elevated generation of intellectuals that were baffled by the Greek philosophers and all of the other types of heresy out there. So the ram my manades had to address it to bring people to do chuva. But this was not something that just anybody and everybody should learn. Even he himself says anyone that does read it read it yourself. Don't study it with a group of people. If you've studied it, don't explain it to somebody else. Why? Because if he's not intellectual enough to understand it by himself, that means he's not qualified to read this book. He should not be reading this book. This