The Kuzari, Essay One: The Argument from History
A king dreams that his way of thinking pleases God but his way of acting does not, and sets out to find the deeds that do. Over twenty one days the first essay takes him from a philosopher, to two scholars of other faiths, to a Jewish sage who answers not with proofs of a Creator but with what an entire nation saw with its own eyes.
21 days
- Day 1: The Dream and the Philosopher
- Day 2: The Christian Scholar and the Scholar of Islam
- Day 3: A Proof Seen by a Multitude
- Day 4: The Sage Begins with History
- Day 5: The Parable of the King of India
- Day 6: The Degrees of Creation
- Day 7: The Chronology from Adam
- Day 8: What No One Could Have Arranged
- Day 9: Aristotle and the Question of Eternity
- Day 10: The Wisdom in an Ant, and the Word "Nature"
- Day 11: The Fool in the Pharmacy
- Day 12: Six Hundred Thousand Witnesses
- Day 13: Manna, Sabbath, and the Desert Years
- Day 14: The Voice at Sinai
- Day 15: The Golden Calf
- Day 16: The Line from Adam
- Day 17: Drawing Near through the Commandments
- Day 18: Why One Nation
- Day 19: What the Torah Promises
- Day 20: The Soul, and the Reproach of Exile
- Day 21: Humility Not by Choice