What came to me as listened was that God is all knowing and accepts that knowing. A thought said what is that knowing and God created a void where he could pull himself apart to show Himself in all his parts. You could see what God is and is not.
Shalom Rabbi Jacobson, i would just like to shed some light on some spiritual matters like the reincarnation , Jewish Messiah & so On. I Myself Came To Believe In Jesus Christ And Got Baptist Into The Eastern Orthodox Church, My Mother Is Jewish From Her Mothers Side. The Topics I Would Like To Ponder Upon Is The Reincarnation And We The Orthodox Church Believe Not In The Reincarnation Of Our Prophet Elijah Because Basically It Can Not Be Or Can Not Be Considered To Be A Reincarnation.Because Elijah Didn't Die But, He Was Taken Up To The Heavens. So Where Does Holy Scripture Speaks To As About The Reincarnation We Find It In EZEKIEL 37 Verse 24. My Servant David Will Also Return At The End To Rule And Be King Over God's People Israel Forever With A New Eternal Covenant And If You Read It From Start To Finish From Verse 15-28 Will Answer You The Jewish & Palestinian Conflict And Who Is The Solution To The Problem.King David Upon His Return IS THE PEACEMAKER IN THE REGION. We As Orthodox Christians Believe King David Is Benjamin Netanyahu In The Flesh Time Will Prove As Right.---We As Orthodox Christians To Dare Say Jesus Has Returned ISAIAH 9 Has To Take Place. NAFTELI CITY OF THE GENTILES WHICH IS BY THE SEA THERE,OUR CHRIST ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS KINGDOM WLL ESTABLISHED FOREVER(has Nothing To Do With Hezekiah This ISAIAH 9 Prophecy) And Simultaneously King David Establishing His Eternal Kingdom In Jerusalem Only Then We Can Dare To Say The Messiah Has Returned.As Where Is NAFTELI IS STILL IS A MYSTERY IT CAN BE ANYWHERE.WHEN MESSIAH RETURNS EVERYTHING WILL BE COMPREHENSIBLE. AMEN---IF THE YANUKA IS THE RABBIS MESSIAH SURELY PROPHET ELIJAH COMES BEFORE THE MESSIAHSOMESSI MESSIA THE YANUKA CAN NOT BE MESSIAH ,IF HE IS THEN SURELY THE YANUKA IS FRAUD AND A FALSE MESSIAH.AMEN----LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR COMMENTS RABBI.
Just to clear the prophecies concerning Messiah arrival certain things have to take place first and foremost Prophet Elijah Has To Come First , Now From Where His Going To Come From Remains A Mystery With A Chariot And Horses No One Has Any Answers. Now We Hear The Yanuka Is The Rabbis Messiah Then Where Is Prophet Elijah . So Yanuka Can Not Be Messiah .If The Yanuka Is Prophet Elijah Then How Did He Arrive With Chariots And Horses, Surely No Mother Conceived Him.Then The Yanuka Can Not Be Elijah Nor The Jewish Messiah. Then Who Can The Yanuka Be? Rabbi Your Comments Are Crucial --Who Is The Yanuka ? The Yanuka His Not Elijah Because He Was Conceived In The Womb But Neither Can He Be Messiah. Then Who Is The Yanuka ? DOES ANYONE HAVE AN ANSWER? RABBI JACOBSON DO YOU HAVE AN ANSWER?
@@robertjennings397 Atheism is a religion the way "off" is a TV channel. And killers? Well...killers exist both religious and non. I'm not quite certain what your point is.
@@robertjennings397 Your argument is flawed. An opposition to something, by definition, is not the same as the thing it opposes. Everything Rabbi Simon Jacobson said went completely over your head.
I am Buddhist and enjoy your talks very much. I once heard a Hindu Swami speak. He didn't like to use the word God because he said that every person has a perception of God, which means that no two people can talk about the same thing. He also mentioned the disputes and wars because of this.
Look what they have done to Jesus? Tammy Baker tv evangelist etc. I so agree with what you mention the swami spoke. Thanks for your comment, I can relate ✨♥️✨
Fact truth is one . Ders eternity after death... Either in heaven or hell... Devil despiratly wants u in hell... God wants u in heaven so made a provision... N dat provision is Lord Jesus Christ.
I'll listen to this many times to internalize what I'm hearing, sometimes truth has to be heard multiple times to begin the process of understanding. Thank you Rabbi Jacobson.
I am thankful I can hear your words. Raised as a southern baptist I was told never to look outside their Bible…. I had to leave my religion to start my own journey. It was painful! Blessing to you from most high. You bring peace.
As a life long "atheist" myself this hits home. The God I was told to believe in never logically made sense to me because of this theory of our singular definition of existence.. now I know and understand my own ethos on a deeper level. I always believed that there must be something more and I felt there is something higher than us but I must find it on my own, like waiting to be touched by a holy spirit instead of instructed to just believe because of others theories. If God is real, words in our language will never be enough to prove this or that when trying to define such a thing.
How about A.D. Earth year fact based on the life of Jesus, Praises and Gregorian chanting? Magic anyone? God's creation, conjuring and chanting. The Maggi were the first to worship Jesus. John the Babtist helped conjure Babtism. Life fact creation truth. Love over facts, 2023 A.D. , printed on money and headstones.
Bravo sir. Your heart and brain are both in the right place. Thank you for your service to humanity. Blessings of love, peace, joy, and prosperity to you.
I just found you a few weeks ago. I have listened to a few of your teachings. The reason I keep listening is because you speak about the profound in a simple way. I’m nobody in particular and my ideas and opinions are not worth much, but I share them with you from a place of meeting you in love since you asked, “what do you think?” I think many times in your talk here I literally almost cried. Your points and conclusions are one that I came to through just struggle of experience and being stubborn enough to go through the pain of coming to the end of myself and instead of deciding to die from this human experience, deciding to live only because I really wanted to understand in this human form. I felt that I was just missing something to be so miserable and I just had to find out what that was. I was taught that the ‘right way’ would lead to happiness and peace and I diligently tried to do what I was told God expected to get those qualities to function in my life. I am guessing you are laughing at this point as I think you know this leads to a dead end. BUT it is an important dead end to come to in order to find the path that never ends. I don’t have your training. I don’t have the same amount of physical information you have. But, my pushing in and not giving up when I finally came to total hopelessness and choosing to pause in the hopelessness to see what was there instead of just end it gave me a total new perspective on what is possible and what really is and is not. It opened the gate for the very first time in my life to feel peace and joy. No, not all peace and joy but the amount I can handle. Peace and joy are very very painful things to experience, especially at first, when you have only known by experience their opposites. Going for truth is freaking painful and I get why hardly anyone would dare to keep going for it and never stop. It’s being willing to face and go through the pain of losing one’s identity little by little, letting go of EVERYTHING for an extended time and not just for a moment, that the breakthroughs have come for me. I have gotten more used to the feelings of peace and joy which for me comes from believing God is love itself. It is not only His nature it just is Him. Well I speak in human terms which are limited as you are aware. And then what is love? Such a beautiful word which we never fully understand but can slowly know and feel as we go along our paths. Love brings peace and joy with a whole slew of other things like a light refracted into colors. But what I really think, since you asked, is that I am profoundly grateful to hear another human being be able to share so eloquently what I learned the hard way. Somehow it is a gift of being heard that I did not necessarily need, which makes it an unexpected gift that I fully accept and enjoy. Thank you for being willing to be the ‘arms of God’ to love me in the form that proves to me that “He” is there and loves us all so very much just because that is what He is- which I can never prove to anyone else is true, but does not make it less true if I cannot prove it. Choosing to believe God is that good has only helped me to push in to those areas of me that disagreed with it being true. Sooner or later those areas lose themselves by getting enveloped in Love too and melt into being healed.
Could it be the way involves being visited in light by the Ancient of Days. He will speak to your heart and you'll know. True knowledge as you seek will be granted personally by The Creator. HE will talk to you and teach you all things. This is The Gnosis as I understand, personal knowledge given to you first hand by God.
Your life story brings tears to my eyes. I bless you for hanging on and "working out your own salvation" to quote something from the New Testament, something apparently not grasped by many readers of the NT. My life has never been as hard as yours, but it has been a hard fought battle, sorting out the valuable parts of what I was taught and the valuable parts of materialist science, and finding a way to surmount the two of them and find joy, peace, and a source of love inside myself. I find Rabbi Jacobson to be so refreshing in his understanding of what people really need to be taught.
your talks are thought-provoking and it's apparent a full lifetime of learning has gone into them. your respect for others' perspectives, and your kind, curious nature is refreshing. thank you for making these videos
My soul loves listening to your trascendental words. Your existence, your life and your channel enriches my life greatly. Thank you! God bless you more and more every day! 🙏
Thank you for all your time to share. I am blessed to have my God . I am a Christian and I love my Jesus but I would rather and learn more by listening to the Rabbis than listen to any Christian preacher. I started listening because that was Jesus's faith , he was a wonderful Jewish man, I wish I knew everything about my Jesus and I wanted to know how he studied. Thanks again for taking time to bless us all with your knowledge, I do love listening to you teach.
Ditto... I love listening to Rabbis. They offer soo much insight into the Truth... Much more so than most Christian preachers, in my experience... Still, many Christians aren't ready for Truth on this level, yet... That's okay. I look at it as those folks are in grade-school, and not yet ready for middle-school... I wasn't born ready for middle-school. I had to go through grade-school first. I look at it this way: You ain't ready for "Physics 303" if you can't grasp why 1+1=2 without having to memorize it... I'm no mathematician, so I could be wrong about that, but I don't think I am...
Rabbi I am a lifelong student of trying to study the ideas of humanity - I really value your wisdom and learning. Listening to you is as close as I can get to listening to the old Greek masters etc - thank you
It's really refreshing to listen to someone who believes in God and can honestly talk about it with skeptics. I really appreciate that! So many other people purposely ignore a lot of what you go over in the intro.
Great video. I grew up fundamentalist and ran far away around 16 years old from that. I’ve still been searching for god and try living in ways in alignment to a “good path” (certainly not always or even most of the time). I look for essays like this from minds capable of this level of scrutiny
To me love is never giving up on those you care about and even strangers. All too often people give up on each other and just let people fall in their struggles. Sometimes people aren't ready for the help but you should never write them off, one day they will be.
What can the art tell you about the artist? Actually, quote a lot. A painting can tell you about the artists intention, energy and intellect. What about poetry and music, they tell us a tremendous amount about the people that created them.
Rabbi...you present many, often powerful ideas. But you do so in a straightforward and accessible way. I find your videos scholarly but viewer-friendly. We disagree on a variety of levels but you are erudite and always interesting.
Oh,, my! Hearing you, Rabbi, reminds me of my quest for 'right' understanding of 'what it's all about.' The best way I ever found to express it was, in part... What came before the Big Bang? Nothing. And, before God? Nothing. A 'nothing' that neither could be said to exist, nor not to exist, because both are dependent upon duality, while a unity of nothingness cannot. Not as full nor eloquent a description as yours', of course, but more a token to prove that someone has herd you, and will undoubtedly be following and praying for the success of your great work! Thank you!
I was leaving my religion when I was 18 . For about 3 years I beleived in nothing. Through some books my mind changed and since then I am a free spirit and Know that there is a higher power watching and protecting me. Left Europe and live in Africa since 35 years. I had Many experiences which confirmed that I am loved and protected. Meanwhile I am 66 and feel still full of energy and enjoy my life. I really like what you say . Thank you
I was once part of an established esoteric/spiritual group here in London (about ten years ago) And I was sitting talking with the director of this group. An older gentleman. Mid-seventies. And I asked him if he believed in God. There was a rather long silence . He then replied , in a very measured manner : "No. I don't believe. I know." My life changed that day.
@@Meaningfullifecenter Good day , I have to say that you are leading people away from the Lord of hosts (from the bible in basic terms) with your teachings. You are causing huge spiritual shifts across the spiritual realm , because when you blow out the light in a believer by teaching false doctrines and people believe it ,they fill up with a sinister darkness , then a spirit from hell enters into them and they turn directly towards the person who blew the light out in them and they pursue relentlessly. The only reason why you may not have experienced it yet is because the people are on the net far away from you , if there are people close to you who you've done it with just take a moment to think how they have changed , other believers out there in the world have to fight spiritually against the spirits you release. When the darkness enters they become destruction , destroyers. Then they start doing all kinds of hatred filled activities , drinking , smoking , disrespecting parents , casual sex , swearing , beating people because they have a grudge , you caused the light to leave them, I also used to tell people incorrect information to lead them away from the bible and it was horrific demonic activity , possesed people after me. I turned to Jesus and the Lord and the Lord took the Leviathon away by it's nose ring eventually but there were many years of terror first. Jesus said what you bind on earth you bind in heaven and what you loose on earth you loose in heaven. I pray this never has to happen to anyone anymore
Thought provoking talk Rabbi. Thank you for posting this. I was put, (and I put myself through), quite a gamut of belief and non belief. Where am I now? In the most "simplistic" terms I am an agnostic HENOTHEIST that is often an atheistic "sympathizer". How I got to such a point would be a long story that would probably bore many. And with all due respect to you sir, I will just end this comment by saying that I will curb my own narcissistic tendency to write a long treatise of a comment out, and congratulate you on a successful talk that kept me paying attention to it for its entirety.
When I was a very young troubled kid, I felt so out of place. I saw spirits of the dead and had warnings from something I felt but never understood. I would feel a presence behind me and a hand grab me on my right shoulder as though I had a guardian angel watching over me. I struggled with it all for many years looking for someone to give me answers but that never came. I battled on and had a NDE when I was 15 and had a vision similar to the movie Dr strange. I'm 45 now and often sit quietly trying to understand all those things I went through. I don't think I ever will truly understand it but I've come away with the comforting thought that there is a higher power watching over us and judging us at all times. I love the mystery of it all and it really intrigues me.
I choose to be accountable, and I don't fear being judged by a supreme being. Just admit none of us really know how the universe's happened into something, even before the big bang. It's beyond our understanding and I for one know that.
I love that you say words are important. They have extreme power. And the right thing stated the wrong way can prevent understanding. God didn't think the universe into being, or will it, or wave his hand or magic wand. He spoke it into being.
Thank you. I believe Mom+Dad='God'. Once you 'Arrived' you complete the 'Trinity'. Then as you become an adult you 'Leave the garden( the care of Your parents)' There are just people here. We must have faith that WE each will do good to, and for each other. i used to ask as a curious student but the Adults, often thought( sometimes justifiably so) that i was trying to be a Joker. All the best, regardless.
I too have had this epiphany or revelation of simplified (father, mother, child) and also the magnified derivative or (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) Trinity (or the number 3). As well as in other practical derivative applications in life choices and spiritual beliefs. Also, the dualistic internal fight against good and evil self (Heaven/Hell) at times. I believe these are supernatural tests of each person's spirit/soul. When I perceive opportunities (very numerous) to choose the way that aligns with the principles of Loving God, I prosper (as well as those around me). When I aligned or have mistakenly chosen the path that does not align with Loving God's principles and wisdom (as written, the Word), it is proven out to be disastrous for myself and those around me. I believe the consequences of any one personal sin lingers to the third generation. Thanks for you comment. I appreciated it. Thank you Rabbi. It strongly occurs to me the numbers one, two and three are very important taken together and separately in the quest for understanding.
Shalom Rabbi Jacobson, thank you for explaining clearly about "exist", Abraham's experience in search of God in humility, "being in the zone", introduction to "nature of God", God as root of all roots, and the fusion of mind, body, and soul.
11:00 There's a growing theory in Cosmology put forth by Roger Penrose, a very widely respected British mathematician and philosopher that the "Big Bang" only represents an end of one epoch and the beginning of our own. In a really rough way of saying it, he suggests the Universe is actually "bouncing" between Big Bang (singularity, total energy) and Heat Death (emptiness, no energy). He has spoken extensively on Consciousness as well. Really interesting guy.
20:00 Inquiry is in our DNA - as a matter of survival . Then again the big bang is an illusion of one section of spacetime. Fully Formed Galaxies have been spotted 11.7 Gya , but these galaxies 11.7 Billion Light years away may have formed only 4.5 Billion years ago , but have reached so far because of the metric expansion of space time whose relative velocity to us depends on distance.
I like your talk on God and believers and non-believers. I initially believed but alcoholic drinking became my object of worship. When I came to AA I HAD SEVERAL SYNCHRONICITIES. A member of AA said they called these experiences COINSIGODS. THESE EXPERIENCES LED ME TO BELIEVE IN GOD AGAIN. I really love your instructive talks. My own religion is based on your religion and I love you.
The Source of all is an ever-changing Energy. Source is in everything and everyone. Energy is in everything and everyone. We were mislead from the beginning when Source was defined by human mentality in the form of a grandfather figure meant to give us something to relate to. Source don't take sides like a parent Source gives us free will and we are responsible for the choices we make. Source in Its wisdom and perfection made us perfectly imperfect so that we might know how to appreciate diversity.
😊he’s way to contact by e-mail etc or @ least now. He’s getting popular by the day so I wish you good wishes in contacting him! I may have had no business commenting but I had the same feeling couple months ago. ✨😊✨
this reality is like a shared dream and those who know their true power have a greater responsibility. how it all started or why? that is the great mystery!
Everyone’s left brain is an atheist and everyone’s right brain is a believer. The problem is that we don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are... or what hemisphere we are currently in. The hero’s journey is uniting these hemispheres and rediscovering wholeness. “There’s only one story. There’s only one person in that story. And that person is you.”
Rabbi, I am a huge science nerd. you put this together very well! I have been in conversations with those who don't believe in G-d and say that they believe in science. I then proceed in examining them of their knowledge of math and science to find out that they know very little or nothing of what they profess. It is quite funny 😁 . I do not belittle them, for that is not the point of having the conversations. Hopefully, it will open their eyes to G-d. Keep up the great 👍 work!
Amen! I do the same thing. It’s definitely not to belittle them. It’s to open their minds to the truth of things. It’s hard for many to understand that they worship science and yet lack the background or education to explain concepts that are core to mathematics and physics. We barely know anything! Lol!
Id think scientific progress will tell us how meek we are and learning some humility in the process - to seek divine is a constant endeavour , not finished in one's lifetime , but improves over time till we hand it over to another sentient species when we go extinct.
@@laurentpenot2656 it’s a shorthand way of writing God for those of us who are Jewish. The name of G-d is sacred to us and thus should not be used except for religious purposes. We often refer to him as Hashem or Adonai instead of Yahweh (covenant name). Hashem means “the name” and Adonai means Lord of Lords.
As a believer of a Christian church rooted in China by the Chinese through their unique understanding of the Bible, I have found to have a deeper understanding of the Bible, there is no one I could think of doing a better job than you and thank you!
I didn't really have to make it any farther than 3 minutes into your video to realize how you see atheism. The issue arises because you seem to imply that if atheists do things that are "good" it falls along things that are godlike, more specifically your particular flavor of God. To be fair, not a single person can answer what a God is completely because we all have different ideas on it. It'd be rather nice if God just came down and settled things but for some reason decides to stay hidden so that we can bicker amongst each other about which God is true and which God isn't true and who is right and who is wrong and blah blah blah blah blah.
@@mustachemac5229 I see you're very interested and curious and a truth seeker. Too bad that's just what you tell yourself, but even this one comment proves otherwise.
I’m atheist because of what is exactly mentioned at 4:50. Until any so called creator presents itself to me or the world, then I reject all forms of attempts of defining, explaining, and or speaking on it’s behalf, by those believed to have been created by a creator(s). This knocks out all so believed religious text and interpretation of that text.
I won't accept the existence of Joe Biden until he personally appears before me. You may say he exists because you've evidence however he doesn't appear to me so what is the use of your evidence? Besides if you insist God appear to you personally that makes you God.
Exactly. If God showed himself to me tomorrow, I would become a true believer for life. It's no different than extraterrestrials. Yeah, there may be other planets out there with the capacity for life but until I see one with my own two eyes I'm not going to live my life as if we're surrounded by other beings on other planets, that takes an extreme leap of faith. If the only reason I have to believe in God lies in man-written texts, that's not actual proof that God exists. If someone produces a grainy, out of focus video of a dot that could be a UFO, that's not proof that its an extraterrestrial craft being flown by aliens.
Very compelling and ernest talk. It's interesting to see things from the other side, since we Europeans normally don't get to hear the word from a Rabbi. Thank you for opening up. You're very brave for doing so.
Nothing Exists Yamaoka Tesshu, as a young student of Zen, visited one master after another. He called upon Dokuon of Shokoku. Desiring to show his attainment, he said: "The mind, Buddha, and sentient beings, after all, do not exist. The true nature of phenomena is emptiness. There is no realization, no delusion, no sage, no mediocrity. There is no giving and nothing to be received." Dokuon, who was smoking quietly, said nothing. Suddenly he whacked Yamaoka with his bamboo pipe. This made the youth quite angry. "If nothing exists," inquired Dokuon, "where did this anger come from?"
Once a physics teacher said to his students: our solar system and arguably our etnire universe is a place of frequency and even humans are in frequency. We have our daily routines, habits and rituals we repeat again and again, every day of the week, and sometimes the wave length is bigger, like celebrating new year. This brings me to the unconscious choices we make, and the 'energies' that cross our paths. If I leave my residence at a certain moment because I go for a walk for example, the things I encounter will be different than when I would leave 5 minutes later. Why do I do things at a certain moment and not earlier or later? Outside 'energy lines' cross my own personal 'energy line' and these are the encounters that form the experiences I live through. Maybe these encounters might even contain messages from beyond. Messages that we may even notice visually. Like e.g. two large ships pass by, following each other very closely. One ship was named 'Deo Juvante' and the one close behind it was named 'Adante'... translated both together: god helps, in moderate pace. A message telling me to have patience?! If I would have left the house earlier or later I would never have encountered this. Who knows...
Thank you for investing your time on educating those who want to be educated and pissing off those who just want an excuse to debate and contradict for conflicts sake only.
When someone asks me if I believe in God, I'll ask them to define what they mean by God. Usually get a blank look. This all follows my metaphysical foundations, never thought Judaism fell in line with it.
Amazing discussion , this video will have a long term impact , every time I listen to it I understand it a little better .. if understanding is not a axiomatic illusion .
I was raised my mother Jewish father Muslim with both Religions. I am agnostic or atheist I love religion find it beautiful and find many wonderful things that come from it. I say I am atheist or agnostic because at times I don't believe in any form of afterlife at others I prefer that there is no God. But that's because I have seen to much pain and experienced too much pain and look forward to the end. I am terminal but don't know if days or a year or two left. I spent my life working with the poor and hungry. I was left a trust so I didn't have to work for money so I wanted to do go do as much good as I could. So I spent almost twenty years working with the Catholic religion since they were doing the most good in my area. I think if there was God I would spend a eternity expressing my disappointment but that would go against a God since I would have a greater understanding at that point. I have seen things that truly can't be explained by science. My own life still being alive is miraculous I have survived 19 situations no one else has. I studied religion at length and find merit in it. I am atheist because I don't want there to be a afterlife. I'm agnostic because leaving out my biassed nature I would believe in God. What that God may be I couldn't begin to understand nor would I be ignorant enough to think that I could understand if there is. I would often get asked why I did the work I did if I didn't believe in God and I would answer that if there isn't a God then to change the world we must take the actions ourselves. Had I not had such great abuse's in my life experienced such pain I would likely not have the biases that make me atheist. Had I not experienced things that science can't explain I could easily be a atheist completely. So depending on the time I am either agnostic or atheist. But these are through my filters that I have I can't say leaving my biassed nature seeing certain things experiences I have had I would not be able to say there's no God. So I admit freely that when I am atheist it is a result of my biassed nature. And when I'm not as arrogant I'm agnostic understanding when I don't know and what I can't explain I don't know.
Another extrapolation: "You can see the wind blowing the leaves of the trees, but you cannot tell where it comes from or goes." -- Jesus (paraphrase) What you say about the medical profession actually does is summed up for me from this little anecdote from my childhood: As a small child, around five years old, I first visited my uncle Harlan's home. He was a physician and had a very beautiful three-story house that even had an elevator, far beyond anything I had ever imagined. The Ritz! After seeing all this I said to my uncle that being a doctor and healing people must pay a lot of money. He hesitated for a brief moment then said the thing I'll never forget: "Doctors collect the fees; but God does the healing.".
Gospel of Thomas. verse 29. Jesus said, "If the flesh came into being because of spirit, that is a marvel, but if spirit came into being because of the body, that is a marvel of marvels. Yet I marvel at how this great wealth has come to dwell in this poverty."
The big problem here is that God is not a physical being, he is spiritual/emotional, he is called our heavenly father of all creation. People are getting mixed up with Santa Claus and God living in the sky. Not very realistic or truthful in my opinion 🤔
I’m an agnostic. I really appreciate your videos though. Even though I don’t necessarily believe in any religion, it doesn’t mean that I don’t believe in a creator. I just don’t know what that creator looks like. I’m open minded though and I find that you make a lot of great points that I agree with. Thank you Rabbi.
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Hi everyone! What do you think?
study Torah can make our life trully meaningful ... thank you Rabbi for sharing
This was fantastic. I have always thought that science is trying to keep up with God.
What came to me as listened was that God is all knowing and accepts that knowing. A thought said what is that knowing and God created a void where he could pull himself apart to show Himself in all his parts. You could see what God is and is not.
Shalom Rabbi Jacobson, i would just like to shed some light on some spiritual matters like the reincarnation , Jewish Messiah & so On. I Myself Came To Believe In Jesus Christ And Got Baptist Into The Eastern Orthodox Church, My Mother Is Jewish From Her Mothers Side. The Topics I Would Like To Ponder Upon Is The Reincarnation And We The Orthodox Church Believe Not In The Reincarnation Of Our Prophet Elijah Because Basically It Can Not Be Or Can Not Be Considered To Be A Reincarnation.Because Elijah Didn't Die But, He Was Taken Up To The Heavens. So Where Does Holy Scripture Speaks To As About The Reincarnation We Find It In EZEKIEL 37 Verse 24. My Servant David Will Also Return At The End To Rule And Be King Over God's People Israel Forever With A New Eternal Covenant And If You Read It From Start To Finish From Verse 15-28 Will Answer You The Jewish & Palestinian Conflict And Who Is The Solution To The Problem.King David Upon His Return IS THE PEACEMAKER IN THE REGION. We As Orthodox Christians Believe King David Is Benjamin Netanyahu In The Flesh Time Will Prove As Right.---We As Orthodox Christians To Dare Say Jesus Has Returned ISAIAH 9 Has To Take Place. NAFTELI CITY OF THE GENTILES WHICH IS BY THE SEA THERE,OUR CHRIST ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS KINGDOM WLL ESTABLISHED FOREVER(has Nothing To Do With Hezekiah This ISAIAH 9 Prophecy) And Simultaneously King David Establishing His Eternal Kingdom In Jerusalem Only Then We Can Dare To Say The Messiah Has Returned.As Where Is NAFTELI IS STILL IS A MYSTERY IT CAN BE ANYWHERE.WHEN MESSIAH RETURNS EVERYTHING WILL BE COMPREHENSIBLE. AMEN---IF THE YANUKA IS THE RABBIS MESSIAH SURELY PROPHET ELIJAH COMES BEFORE THE MESSIAHSOMESSI MESSIA THE YANUKA CAN NOT BE MESSIAH ,IF HE IS THEN SURELY THE YANUKA IS FRAUD AND A FALSE MESSIAH.AMEN----LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR COMMENTS RABBI.
Just to clear the prophecies concerning Messiah arrival certain things have to take place first and foremost Prophet Elijah Has To Come First , Now From Where His Going To Come From Remains A Mystery With A Chariot And Horses No One Has Any Answers. Now We Hear The Yanuka Is The Rabbis Messiah Then Where Is Prophet Elijah . So Yanuka Can Not Be Messiah .If The Yanuka Is Prophet Elijah Then How Did He Arrive With Chariots And Horses, Surely No Mother Conceived Him.Then The Yanuka Can Not Be Elijah Nor The Jewish Messiah. Then Who Can The Yanuka Be? Rabbi Your Comments Are Crucial --Who Is The Yanuka ? The Yanuka His Not Elijah Because He Was Conceived In The Womb But Neither Can He Be Messiah. Then Who Is The Yanuka ? DOES ANYONE HAVE AN ANSWER? RABBI JACOBSON DO YOU HAVE AN ANSWER?
OK, Rabbi. I'm an atheist, and you directed this at me AND believers! I'm giving you a shot. Thank you for being frank and candid.
I am not an atheist and atheism is a religion. Either way where do you find an atheist as being killers?
@@robertjennings397 Atheism is a religion the way "off" is a TV channel. And killers? Well...killers exist both religious and non. I'm not quite certain what your point is.
@@Ceevro Atheism is a religion. If god doesn’t exist no religion. No atheism. I’m free and clear of your all your incarnations.
@@robertjennings397 If atheism is a religion, bald is a hair colour.
@@robertjennings397 Your argument is flawed. An opposition to something, by definition, is not the same as the thing it opposes. Everything Rabbi Simon Jacobson said went completely over your head.
I am Buddhist and enjoy your talks very much. I once heard a Hindu Swami speak. He didn't like to use the word God because he said that every person has a perception of God, which means that no two people can talk about the same thing. He also mentioned the disputes and wars because of this.
I was just about to comment, this guy is an obvious Buddha
Same works for the word “love”
Look what they have done to Jesus? Tammy Baker tv evangelist etc. I so agree with what you mention the swami spoke. Thanks for your comment, I can relate ✨♥️✨
Fact truth is one .
Ders eternity after death...
Either in heaven or hell...
Devil despiratly wants u in hell... God wants u in heaven so made a provision...
N dat provision is Lord Jesus Christ.
Do Buddhists really have to walk across hot coal?!
I'll listen to this many times to internalize what I'm hearing, sometimes truth has to be heard multiple times to begin the process of understanding. Thank you Rabbi Jacobson.
👍🌺 Too Profound & so Inspiring 🌺
Thank you for an excellent topic of discussion
Repetition is the mother of all learning 🙏🙏🙏
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I am thankful I can hear your words. Raised as a southern baptist I was told never to look outside their Bible…. I had to leave my religion to start my own journey. It was painful! Blessing to you from most high. You bring peace.
Good for you! You might like the book, How To Quit Church Without Quitting God. By Martin Zender, who has a UA-cam channel, and who is a teacher.
Whoa I am so sorry
I could listen to you for hours. You are good at explaining everything in a deeper manner. Thank you Rabbi. 😁
As a life long "atheist" myself this hits home. The God I was told to believe in never logically made sense to me because of this theory of our singular definition of existence.. now I know and understand my own ethos on a deeper level. I always believed that there must be something more and I felt there is something higher than us but I must find it on my own, like waiting to be touched by a holy spirit instead of instructed to just believe because of others theories. If God is real, words in our language will never be enough to prove this or that when trying to define such a thing.
How about A.D. Earth year fact based on the life of Jesus, Praises and Gregorian chanting? Magic anyone? God's creation, conjuring and chanting. The Maggi were the first to worship Jesus. John the Babtist helped conjure Babtism. Life fact creation truth. Love over facts, 2023 A.D. , printed on money and headstones.
I hope you have wonderful experiences. (I hope it for myself too.)
#Ben Elsiom
Glad you had the opportunity to hear this talk about God. Peace be unto you .
#Michael Shannon
Me too I shall do my part!
@@abusednomoresilence Thankyou jaqueline, peace be with you , walk in grace .
Bravo sir. Your heart and brain are both in the right place. Thank you for your service to humanity. Blessings of love, peace, joy, and prosperity to you.
Thank you Rabbi Jacobson. I'm working on forgiveness of the disappointing things I have done. I'm usually hardest on myself.
I just found you a few weeks ago. I have listened to a few of your teachings. The reason I keep listening is because you speak about the profound in a simple way. I’m nobody in particular and my ideas and opinions are not worth much, but I share them with you from a place of meeting you in love since you asked, “what do you think?” I think many times in your talk here I literally almost cried. Your points and conclusions are one that I came to through just struggle of experience and being stubborn enough to go through the pain of coming to the end of myself and instead of deciding to die from this human experience, deciding to live only because I really wanted to understand in this human form. I felt that I was just missing something to be so miserable and I just had to find out what that was. I was taught that the ‘right way’ would lead to happiness and peace and I diligently tried to do what I was told God expected to get those qualities to function in my life. I am guessing you are laughing at this point as I think you know this leads to a dead end. BUT it is an important dead end to come to in order to find the path that never ends.
I don’t have your training. I don’t have the same amount of physical information you have. But, my pushing in and not giving up when I finally came to total hopelessness and choosing to pause in the hopelessness to see what was there instead of just end it gave me a total new perspective on what is possible and what really is and is not. It opened the gate for the very first time in my life to feel peace and joy. No, not all peace and joy but the amount I can handle. Peace and joy are very very painful things to experience, especially at first, when you have only known by experience their opposites. Going for truth is freaking painful and I get why hardly anyone would dare to keep going for it and never stop. It’s being willing to face and go through the pain of losing one’s identity little by little, letting go of EVERYTHING for an extended time and not just for a moment, that the breakthroughs have come for me. I have gotten more used to the feelings of peace and joy which for me comes from believing God is love itself. It is not only His nature it just is Him. Well I speak in human terms which are limited as you are aware. And then what is love? Such a beautiful word which we never fully understand but can slowly know and feel as we go along our paths. Love brings peace and joy with a whole slew of other things like a light refracted into colors.
But what I really think, since you asked, is that I am profoundly grateful to hear another human being be able to share so eloquently what I learned the hard way. Somehow it is a gift of being heard that I did not necessarily need, which makes it an unexpected gift that I fully accept and enjoy. Thank you for being willing to be the ‘arms of God’ to love me in the form that proves to me that “He” is there and loves us all so very much just because that is what He is- which I can never prove to anyone else is true, but does not make it less true if I cannot prove it. Choosing to believe God is that good has only helped me to push in to those areas of me that disagreed with it being true. Sooner or later those areas lose themselves by getting enveloped in Love too and melt into being healed.
Bless you
I'm glad you clawed your way out of hopelessness and found what you needed
Could it be the way involves being visited in light by the Ancient of Days. He will speak to your heart and you'll know. True knowledge as you seek will be granted personally by The Creator. HE will talk to you and teach you all things. This is The Gnosis as I understand, personal knowledge given to you first hand by God.
Thank you for ❤
Your life story brings tears to my eyes. I bless you for hanging on and "working out your own salvation" to quote something from the New Testament, something apparently not grasped by many readers of the NT. My life has never been as hard as yours, but it has been a hard fought battle, sorting out the valuable parts of what I was taught and the valuable parts of materialist science, and finding a way to surmount the two of them and find joy, peace, and a source of love inside myself. I find Rabbi Jacobson to be so refreshing in his understanding of what people really need to be taught.
your talks are thought-provoking and it's apparent a full lifetime of learning has gone into them. your respect for others' perspectives, and your kind, curious nature is refreshing. thank you for making these videos
My soul loves listening to your trascendental words. Your existence, your life and your channel enriches my life greatly. Thank you! God bless you more and more every day! 🙏
Thank you for all your time to share. I am blessed to have my God . I am a Christian and I love my Jesus but I would rather and learn more by listening to the Rabbis than listen to any Christian preacher. I started listening because that was Jesus's faith , he was a wonderful Jewish man, I wish I knew everything about my Jesus and I wanted to know how he studied. Thanks again for taking time to bless us all with your knowledge, I do love listening to you teach.
Ditto... I love listening to Rabbis. They offer soo much insight into the Truth... Much more so than most Christian preachers, in my experience...
Still, many Christians aren't ready for Truth on this level, yet... That's okay. I look at it as those folks are in grade-school, and not yet ready for middle-school...
I wasn't born ready for middle-school. I had to go through grade-school first.
I look at it this way: You ain't ready for "Physics 303" if you can't grasp why 1+1=2 without having to memorize it...
I'm no mathematician, so I could be wrong about that, but I don't think I am...
Thank you Rabbi Jacobson✡️🙏♥️🔥🎶Wish you and all here a beautiful day💪🙂
Rabbi I am a lifelong student of trying to study the ideas of humanity - I really value your wisdom and learning. Listening to you is as close as I can get to listening to the old Greek masters etc - thank you
It's really refreshing to listen to someone who believes in God and can honestly talk about it with skeptics. I really appreciate that! So many other people purposely ignore a lot of what you go over in the intro.
Great video. I grew up fundamentalist and ran far away around 16 years old from that. I’ve still been searching for god and try living in ways in alignment to a “good path” (certainly not always or even most of the time). I look for essays like this from minds capable of this level of scrutiny
To me love is never giving up on those you care about and even strangers. All too often people give up on each other and just let people fall in their struggles. Sometimes people aren't ready for the help but you should never write them off, one day they will be.
Thank you, Rabbi Jacobson. I'm learning a lot from you.
What can the art tell you about the artist? Actually, quote a lot. A painting can tell you about the artists intention, energy and intellect. What about poetry and music, they tell us a tremendous amount about the people that created them.
Don't tell anyone, I never grow tired listening to you. Thank you!
Thank you dear Rabbi, your my favourite Rabbi. Everything you say makes so much sense and it's so true. Thank you. Xx
"God, if you exist, please!.. Help me!! And, if you don't exist... Help me anyway. Amen."
- Brother Theodore
As always, thank you for taking the time to make this video and for sharing your wisdom.
Fantastic and thought provoking lecture. Thank you Rabbi Jacobson.
Thank you Rabbi! A lot to chew on here. I appreciate this rich teaching very much!❤
What about those of us that WHAT to be accountable? There is so much knowledge we can never contain it in our being. THANK YOU Mr. Jacobson
Every minute of the video is full of meaningful advice!
Thank you for the enlightenment Rabbi. Have a blessed day.
Rabbi...you present many, often powerful ideas. But you do so in a straightforward and accessible way. I find your videos scholarly but viewer-friendly. We disagree on a variety of levels but you are erudite and always interesting.
Subhanallah ... Alhamdulillah 🤲
Thank you very much, Rabbi Simon Jacobson 👌
Gesundheit! 🤧
Oh,, my! Hearing you, Rabbi, reminds me of my quest for 'right' understanding of 'what it's all about.' The best way I ever found to express it was, in part... What came before the Big Bang? Nothing. And, before God? Nothing. A 'nothing' that neither could be said to exist, nor not to exist, because both are dependent upon duality, while a unity of nothingness cannot. Not as full nor eloquent a description as yours', of course, but more a token to prove that someone has herd you, and will undoubtedly be following and praying for the success of your great work! Thank you!
I was leaving my religion when I was 18 . For about 3 years I beleived in nothing. Through some books my mind changed and since then I am a free spirit and Know that there is a higher power watching and protecting me. Left Europe and live in Africa since 35 years. I had Many experiences which confirmed that I am loved and protected. Meanwhile I am 66 and feel still full of energy and enjoy my life. I really like what you say . Thank you
Please continue on this subject. Thank you
That was maybe the best explanation of God I have ever heard.
I was once part of an established esoteric/spiritual group here in London (about ten years ago) And I was sitting talking with the director of this group. An older gentleman. Mid-seventies. And I asked him if he believed in God. There was a rather long silence . He then replied , in a very measured manner : "No. I don't believe. I know."
My life changed that day.
Amazing class! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much!
@@Meaningfullifecenter Good day , I have to say that you are leading people away from the Lord of hosts (from the bible in basic terms) with your teachings. You are causing huge spiritual shifts across the spiritual realm , because when you blow out the light in a believer by teaching false doctrines and people believe it ,they fill up with a sinister darkness , then a spirit from hell enters into them and they turn directly towards the person who blew the light out in them and they pursue relentlessly. The only reason why you may not have experienced it yet is because the people are on the net far away from you , if there are people close to you who you've done it with just take a moment to think how they have changed , other believers out there in the world have to fight spiritually against the spirits you release. When the darkness enters they become destruction , destroyers. Then they start doing all kinds of hatred filled activities , drinking , smoking , disrespecting parents , casual sex , swearing , beating people because they have a grudge , you caused the light to leave them, I also used to tell people incorrect information to lead them away from the bible and it was horrific demonic activity , possesed people after me. I turned to Jesus and the Lord and the Lord took the Leviathon away by it's nose ring eventually but there were many years of terror first. Jesus said what you bind on earth you bind in heaven and what you loose on earth you loose in heaven. I pray this never has to happen to anyone anymore
Thought provoking talk Rabbi. Thank you for posting this. I was put, (and I put myself through), quite a gamut of belief and non belief.
Where am I now? In the most "simplistic" terms I am an agnostic HENOTHEIST that is often an atheistic "sympathizer". How I got to such a point would be a long story that would probably bore many. And with all due respect to you sir, I will just end this comment by saying that I will curb my own narcissistic tendency to write a long treatise of a comment out, and congratulate you on a successful talk that kept me paying attention to it for its entirety.
Just Brilliant 💜
As always Rabbi Jacobson
You are so loved by that higher life force
And so sacred to humanity right now
You are loved 💙
When I was a very young troubled kid, I felt so out of place. I saw spirits of the dead and had warnings from something I felt but never understood. I would feel a presence behind me and a hand grab me on my right shoulder as though I had a guardian angel watching over me. I struggled with it all for many years looking for someone to give me answers but that never came. I battled on and had a NDE when I was 15 and had a vision similar to the movie Dr strange. I'm 45 now and often sit quietly trying to understand all those things I went through. I don't think I ever will truly understand it but I've come away with the comforting thought that there is a higher power watching over us and judging us at all times. I love the mystery of it all and it really intrigues me.
Mind bending in a marvelous way. Thank you.
You are more knowledgeable than most spiritual teachers (and pointers). ❤🙏
I'm glad I found you. Thank You
I think you are right, consciousness is something we can't explain
Excellent video, absolute brilliance 🙂
I choose to be accountable, and I don't fear being judged by a supreme being. Just admit none of us really know how the universe's happened into something, even before the big bang. It's beyond our understanding and I for one know that.
Thank you, rabbi, for this video. I love all your lectures and this one tops it all. Thank you again for your inspiring work.
I love that you say words are important. They have extreme power. And the right thing stated the wrong way can prevent understanding. God didn't think the universe into being, or will it, or wave his hand or magic wand. He spoke it into being.
Thank you. I believe Mom+Dad='God'. Once you 'Arrived' you complete the 'Trinity'. Then as you become an adult you 'Leave the garden( the care of Your parents)'
There are just people here.
We must have faith that WE each will do good to, and for each other.
i used to ask as a curious student but the Adults, often thought( sometimes justifiably so) that i was trying to be a Joker.
All the best, regardless.
An interesting interpretation; it may somehow have some valet.
I too have had this epiphany or revelation of simplified (father, mother, child) and also the magnified derivative or (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) Trinity (or the number 3). As well as in other practical derivative applications in life choices and spiritual beliefs. Also, the dualistic internal fight against good and evil self (Heaven/Hell) at times. I believe these are supernatural tests of each person's spirit/soul. When I perceive opportunities (very numerous) to choose the way that aligns with the principles of Loving God, I prosper (as well as those around me). When I aligned or have mistakenly chosen the path that does not align with Loving God's principles and wisdom (as written, the Word), it is proven out to be disastrous for myself and those around me. I believe the consequences of any one personal sin lingers to the third generation. Thanks for you comment. I appreciated it. Thank you Rabbi. It strongly occurs to me the numbers one, two and three are very important taken together and separately in the quest for understanding.
@@redhead8777 All the best.
Shalom Rabbi Jacobson, thank you for explaining clearly about "exist", Abraham's experience in search of God in humility, "being in the zone", introduction to "nature of God", God as root of all roots, and the fusion of mind, body, and soul.
11:00 There's a growing theory in Cosmology put forth by Roger Penrose, a very widely respected British mathematician and philosopher that the "Big Bang" only represents an end of one epoch and the beginning of our own. In a really rough way of saying it, he suggests the Universe is actually "bouncing" between Big Bang (singularity, total energy) and Heat Death (emptiness, no energy). He has spoken extensively on Consciousness as well. Really interesting guy.
20:00 Inquiry is in our DNA - as a matter of survival . Then again the big bang is an illusion of one section of spacetime. Fully Formed Galaxies have been spotted 11.7 Gya , but these galaxies 11.7 Billion Light years away may have formed only 4.5 Billion years ago , but have reached so far because of the metric expansion of space time whose relative velocity to us depends on distance.
That would jive with the Vedic cosmology where creation and annihilation occur at precise intervals.
When Penrose got into esoteric nonsense, he dropped the ball and I lost interest. His idea is revolutionary though.
I like your talk on God and believers and non-believers. I initially believed but alcoholic drinking became my object of worship. When I came to AA I HAD SEVERAL SYNCHRONICITIES. A member of AA said they called these experiences COINSIGODS. THESE EXPERIENCES LED ME TO BELIEVE IN GOD AGAIN. I really love your instructive talks. My own religion is based on your religion and I love you.
The Source of all is an ever-changing Energy. Source is in everything and everyone. Energy is in everything and everyone. We were mislead from the beginning when Source was defined by human mentality in the form of a grandfather figure meant to give us something to relate to. Source don't take sides like a parent Source gives us free will and we are responsible for the choices we make. Source in Its wisdom and perfection made us perfectly imperfect so that we might know how to appreciate diversity.
Woke education much?
@@artandculture5262 what does that mean?
We are source, I am shape.
We are source. Those who don’t understand probably never will. If you know, you know 😂
Nice poem
Thanks to rabbi Simon Jacobson for openly discussing matters that I wasn't encouraged to ask to say the least
Excellent lecture, thank you!
That's because it's light we're all made of light whether expanded or compressed.
This I call wisdom.🙏
Thank you Rabbi Simon, a very interesting talk. I'd love to have a conversation with you about God
😊he’s way to contact by e-mail etc or @ least now. He’s getting popular by the day so I wish you good wishes in contacting him! I may have had no business commenting but I had the same feeling couple months ago. ✨😊✨
@@commoveo1 thanks brother, maybe we should have the same chat 🙏
this reality is like a shared dream and those who know their true power have a greater responsibility. how it all started or why? that is the great mystery!
Because Creator had created humans in His own image, we can find parts of He in us.
The heavens declare the glory of God...
Once you have seen you cannot unsee
It is my belief, that the existence of God can be communicated in far, far, less time than an hour and half. SIMPLIFY
Everyone’s left brain is an atheist and everyone’s right brain is a believer. The problem is that we don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are... or what hemisphere we are currently in. The hero’s journey is uniting these hemispheres and rediscovering wholeness. “There’s only one story. There’s only one person in that story. And that person is you.”
I too can listen to you for hours. I enjoy your teachings very much. Very humbling - thank you
Rabbi, I am a huge science nerd. you put this together very well! I have been in conversations with those who don't believe in G-d and say that they believe in science. I then proceed in examining them of their knowledge of math and science to find out that they know very little or nothing of what they profess. It is quite funny 😁 . I do not belittle them, for that is not the point of having the conversations. Hopefully, it will open their eyes to G-d. Keep up the great 👍 work!
Amen! I do the same thing. It’s definitely not to belittle them. It’s to open their minds to the truth of things. It’s hard for many to understand that they worship science and yet lack the background or education to explain concepts that are core to mathematics and physics. We barely know anything! Lol!
Id think scientific progress will tell us how meek we are and learning some humility in the process - to seek divine is a constant endeavour , not finished in one's lifetime , but improves over time till we hand it over to another sentient species when we go extinct.
sry, what does G-d stands for ? general doctor in the context ?
@@laurentpenot2656 it’s a shorthand way of writing God for those of us who are Jewish. The name of G-d is sacred to us and thus should not be used except for religious purposes. We often refer to him as Hashem or Adonai instead of Yahweh (covenant name). Hashem means “the name” and Adonai means Lord of Lords.
@@persephone342 very well said :^)
As a believer of a Christian church rooted in China by the Chinese through their unique understanding of the Bible, I have found to have a deeper understanding of the Bible, there is no one I could think of doing a better job than you and thank you!
I didn't really have to make it any farther than 3 minutes into your video to realize how you see atheism.
The issue arises because you seem to imply that if atheists do things that are "good" it falls along things that are godlike, more specifically your particular flavor of God.
To be fair, not a single person can answer what a God is completely because we all have different ideas on it.
It'd be rather nice if God just came down and settled things but for some reason decides to stay hidden so that we can bicker amongst each other about which God is true and which God isn't true and who is right and who is wrong and blah blah blah blah blah.
God is not a person.
Atheists don't exist.
@@chickenlover657 Sure thing, cup cake 😅
@@mustachemac5229 I see you're very interested and curious and a truth seeker.
Too bad that's just what you tell yourself, but even this one comment proves otherwise.
@@chickenlover657 Keep making yourself look like a fool. It's fun to watch. 😂
@@mustachemac5229 Well, if that's all you got out of my comments....projection much?
Not Jewish but your wisdom is profound and crosses boundaries. Thank you!
Loving these talks. What a brilliant mind! Thank you for sharing your wisdom
I’m atheist because of what is exactly mentioned at 4:50. Until any so called creator presents itself to me or the world, then I reject all forms of attempts of defining, explaining, and or speaking on it’s behalf, by those believed to have been created by a creator(s). This knocks out all so believed religious text and interpretation of that text.
I won't accept the existence of Joe Biden until he personally appears before me.
You may say he exists because you've evidence however he doesn't appear to me so what is the use of your evidence?
Besides if you insist God appear to you personally that makes you God.
Exactly. If God showed himself to me tomorrow, I would become a true believer for life. It's no different than extraterrestrials. Yeah, there may be other planets out there with the capacity for life but until I see one with my own two eyes I'm not going to live my life as if we're surrounded by other beings on other planets, that takes an extreme leap of faith. If the only reason I have to believe in God lies in man-written texts, that's not actual proof that God exists. If someone produces a grainy, out of focus video of a dot that could be a UFO, that's not proof that its an extraterrestrial craft being flown by aliens.
Very compelling and ernest talk. It's interesting to see things from the other side, since we Europeans normally don't get to hear the word from a Rabbi.
Thank you for opening up. You're very brave for doing so.
Love ya Rabi Simon...keep on truckin on....
Nothing Exists
Yamaoka Tesshu, as a young student of Zen, visited one master after another. He called upon Dokuon of Shokoku.
Desiring to show his attainment, he said: "The mind, Buddha, and sentient beings, after all, do not exist. The true nature of phenomena is emptiness. There is no realization, no delusion, no sage, no mediocrity. There is no giving and nothing to be received."
Dokuon, who was smoking quietly, said nothing. Suddenly he whacked Yamaoka with his bamboo pipe. This made the youth quite angry.
"If nothing exists," inquired Dokuon, "where did this anger come from?"
Thank you Rabbi
Rabbi Simon Jacobson 🌺 Just Amazing 🌺
Once a physics teacher said to his students: our solar system and arguably our etnire universe is a place of frequency and even humans are in frequency. We have our daily routines, habits and rituals we repeat again and again, every day of the week, and sometimes the wave length is bigger, like celebrating new year. This brings me to the unconscious choices we make, and the 'energies' that cross our paths. If I leave my residence at a certain moment because I go for a walk for example, the things I encounter will be different than when I would leave 5 minutes later. Why do I do things at a certain moment and not earlier or later? Outside 'energy lines' cross my own personal 'energy line' and these are the encounters that form the experiences I live through. Maybe these encounters might even contain messages from beyond. Messages that we may even notice visually. Like e.g. two large ships pass by, following each other very closely. One ship was named 'Deo Juvante' and the one close behind it was named 'Adante'... translated both together: god helps, in moderate pace. A message telling me to have patience?! If I would have left the house earlier or later I would never have encountered this. Who knows...
Thank you for investing your time on educating those who want to be educated and pissing off those who just want an excuse to debate and contradict for conflicts sake only.
Rabbi I am a Noahide seeking to be nearer to God and you always assist me by sermons
Thank you. Very illuminating.
I'm here because of the energy that is God ,as we all are a part of God . The very essence of God shows threw All of us good an bad.
When someone asks me if I believe in God, I'll ask them to define what they mean by God. Usually get a blank look.
This all follows my metaphysical foundations, never thought Judaism fell in line with it.
I'm truly going to enjoy your lectures ...finally
Brilliant, understood and so satisfying! Paying good attention your words are easy to follow. Thank you so much.
Amazing discussion , this video will have a long term impact , every time I listen to it I understand it a little better .. if understanding is not a axiomatic illusion .
By coincidence this Rabbi had been suggested to me as a Christian. I am thankful for his speeches.
Beautiful knowledge..is a pleasure to sit down and hear you talk
I was raised my mother Jewish father Muslim with both Religions. I am agnostic or atheist I love religion find it beautiful and find many wonderful things that come from it. I say I am atheist or agnostic because at times I don't believe in any form of afterlife at others I prefer that there is no God. But that's because I have seen to much pain and experienced too much pain and look forward to the end. I am terminal but don't know if days or a year or two left. I spent my life working with the poor and hungry. I was left a trust so I didn't have to work for money so I wanted to do go do as much good as I could. So I spent almost twenty years working with the Catholic religion since they were doing the most good in my area. I think if there was God I would spend a eternity expressing my disappointment but that would go against a God since I would have a greater understanding at that point. I have seen things that truly can't be explained by science. My own life still being alive is miraculous I have survived 19 situations no one else has. I studied religion at length and find merit in it. I am atheist because I don't want there to be a afterlife. I'm agnostic because leaving out my biassed nature I would believe in God. What that God may be I couldn't begin to understand nor would I be ignorant enough to think that I could understand if there is. I would often get asked why I did the work I did if I didn't believe in God and I would answer that if there isn't a God then to change the world we must take the actions ourselves. Had I not had such great abuse's in my life experienced such pain I would likely not have the biases that make me atheist. Had I not experienced things that science can't explain I could easily be a atheist completely. So depending on the time I am either agnostic or atheist. But these are through my filters that I have I can't say leaving my biassed nature seeing certain things experiences I have had I would not be able to say there's no God. So I admit freely that when I am atheist it is a result of my biassed nature. And when I'm not as arrogant I'm agnostic understanding when I don't know and what I can't explain I don't know.
Another extrapolation: "You can see the wind blowing the leaves of the trees, but you cannot tell where it comes from or goes." -- Jesus (paraphrase)
What you say about the medical profession actually does is summed up for me from this little anecdote from my childhood:
As a small child, around five years old, I first visited my uncle Harlan's home. He was a physician and had a very beautiful three-story house that even had an elevator, far beyond anything I had ever imagined. The Ritz!
After seeing all this I said to my uncle that being a doctor and healing people must pay a lot of money. He hesitated for a brief moment then said the thing I'll never forget: "Doctors collect the fees; but God does the healing.".
Food for thought, I enjoy your talks rabbi BTW I’m a Christian
Science seeks utility. Religion seeks Truth
My god dwells in me. Nowhere else. I cannot say that about anyone else.
Gospel of Thomas. verse 29. Jesus said, "If the flesh came into being because of spirit, that is a marvel, but if spirit came into being because of the body, that is a marvel of marvels. Yet I marvel at how this great wealth has come to dwell in this poverty."
Jesus said that "God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
You're not LISTENING!
@@red2thebone I listen only to the words of our Lord Yeshua Jesus Christ, not you or anyone else thank you very much 👍
The big problem here is that God is not a physical being, he is spiritual/emotional, he is called our heavenly father of all creation. People are getting mixed up with Santa Claus and God living in the sky. Not very realistic or truthful in my opinion 🤔
I love this so much.
Shabbat. Shalom
I’m an agnostic. I really appreciate your videos though. Even though I don’t necessarily believe in any religion, it doesn’t mean that I don’t believe in a creator. I just don’t know what that creator looks like. I’m open minded though and I find that you make a lot of great points that I agree with. Thank you Rabbi.
You have ears that are willing to hear. As long as you can be open and still, you may yet know god.
Thank you for your teachings
An absolutely marvelous lecture! Thank you. Living the "Divine" life is actually much to our own benefit.
🌺☯️☪️💟♉️⚛️✡️✝️🕎☦️☮️🛐🕉️☸️♈️⛎🔯🌺 We may Deny; we may Defy; We may Transform; We may Transcend….
It’s all EVOLUTIONARY ENLIGHTENMENT 🌺
Thank you for this provocative discussion!
This was great. I'll have to rewatch a few times to catch all the nuances, but even on the first pass it gave me a lot to think about. Thank you, sir.