{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Jewish Ideas to Change the World","title":"How does the Rambam resolve a clash between Torah and Reason?","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/41e76828\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5013,"description":"ABOUT THE EVENT:\n\nProfessor Ross will discuss the virtues and limitations of employing allegory as a method of reconciling religious truth claims with science, as evidenced in Maimonides’ defense of creation ex nihilo in his Guide to the Perplexed.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER:\n\nProfessor Tamar Ross is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Jewish philosophy at Bar Ilan University. She continues to teach at Midreshet Lindenbaum. She did her Ph.D. at the Hebrew University and served as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard. She is the author of Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism. Her areas of expertise include: concepts of God, revelation, religious epistemology, philosophy of halacha, the Musar movement, and the thought of Rabbi A.I. Kook.\n\nDONATE: www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP​​​​​​​\n\nFor podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE:\nwww.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library/\nwww.facebook.com/valleybeitmi...​\n\nBecome a member today, starting at just $18 per month!\n\nClick the link to see our membership options:\nwww.valleybeitmidrash.org/become-a-member/","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/rgXhZfTlnTjybGe2Y8VJvw1nIGugVMdj7wEKsMGYlrk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI5ODEyLzE2NTEw/Nzg1NjAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}