Fundamentals of Judaism – Rabbi Horovitz

daily lessons from Jerusalem 09:00 AM Jerusalem Time on www.livestream.com Sunday to Thursday Yeshivat Dvar Yerushalaim The Jerusalem Academy of Jewish Studies www.dvar.org.il On the one hand, the Bible emphasises the freedom of man. On the other hand, it teaches us that Gd is in control. How can man have freedom if Gd is the Master of fate, of destiny? What is the concept which is referred to by the Kabbalists as a limiting of the Divine presence? If Gd has a wish that the laws of nature should apply to the mineral, animal and vegetable world, could it be the wish of Gd that man should be free? get the free podcast on iTunes, courtesy of MediaFab

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24 Responses to “Fundamentals of Judaism – Rabbi Horovitz”

  • CarmineFragione says:

    God is able to attain the Object of Appearance of the man Jesus, because Infinite must mean the ability to apply the Being of God to the Moment, from All Times to One Time and from All Objectives to any One. God the Infinite encompasses the Finite Object at Will. The Object then is at God’s Discretion to attain the Infinite, the difference is God is the Sovereign Determination to appear Finite, from the Infinite and permit the Finite to partake of the Infinite. It is about Power.

  • maybealover says:

    a strong spontaneous community of sometimes unwittingly psychic psychonauts communing in unfragmented consciousness transcendent of time and locality forming the runes which make up infinite existence and their dharmas transcribed by the surf
    the harbringers and an obscure but ancient gnostic druidical jewish faith which has many names and who’s beginning middle and end is love transformation of all things, essential oneness of nature,

  • elikron4ever says:

    God was/is not a person God defines us. We do not define God

  • CarmineFragione says:

    God as Sovereign, has the Free Will first, and had to make a decision, not of any pressure or necessity, from any outside agency or prior condition to God. God decided by a freely made choice, to be lonely and have a family, but God was also sufficient to make any other choice, so God could have spent Eternity without any other minds within or without His original Peace. But once God decided, His decision became the Law, even God respected, and that is how God became Divine. 3=1

  • CarmineFragione says:

    In Job chapter ten, Job laments and asks God, ” Do you have eyes of flesh ? Can you see as a man sees ? Is your days as a man’s or your years the same as a man ?” God held Job as Innocent, but God did not answer that query, but we Christians believe God answered the challenge of Job, God came in the flesh as Jesus, forgetting and forsaking Himself as God , so as to know the answer to give His servant Job. God came as one of us, that we do not have any justification over God.

  • CarmineFragione says:

    God was the First Person to challenge Himself as to any overt act, to ask why it was done. God has no need of acts, so the first question is why did God begin to do acts ? God had some moment of insanity, in which God asked Himself, “Why ?” So a First Will begins with a question, not an answer. And the Second Will is not liberated from the First, until the same insanity occurs and there is a challenge of wills, seeking to know why. Why should anything be so troubling to be pleasing ?

  • CarmineFragione says:

    God had to start with the Father And Son dialog within Him. God expresses a designed Will to do an act. But God being smart, then stands back and say “why am I doing this ?” Good question. So, God has to have a Son, who goes into the Creation to test the waters and try to figure out why God did anything. God says to Himself, ” How should I know, why would I care ?” So the Free Will has to challenge the First Will, to see if any satisfaction exists as the Placebo to the Mind of God.

  • CarmineFragione says:

    Free Will is inversely proportional to avoiding any approach to follow a directive, to the degree it is not believed in. Free Will is Rebellion to any other Will. God says to the animals “go forth and multiply and be fruitful ”  and until there is another Will, there is no Free Will. A Man can say “Why should I go forth and multiply anything ?” A simple child outsmarts Sam Harris, by simply asking “Why” over and over, when what the child means is, “I do not wish to do it”

  • CarmineFragione says:

    Sam Harris is undone by any snotty nosed brat youngster, who only answers back with “WHYYYYY ???” Why, seems to resonate out of YHWH if read backwards. God commands and people ask why ? Even God asked Cain “Why have you done this ?” Free Will is the Detective seeking to find out after the fact all is done, why it has been done at all ? God may not have settled on the answer “Why” anything is done, and may still be asking us to report back with some good answers. WHY ?

  • CarmineFragione says:

    Free Will is the intellectual threshold where the person getting the orders , responds by asking “Why ?” And if the answer is not satisfactory , the Free Will is Rebellious. Machines never ask why, unless programmed to ask why, but the machines do not realize the dissatisfaction of not getting the sufficient answer to motivate them to respond as directed. God did all that is done, but may be seeking His own answer “Why” by His living vicariously through us, to study the answers.

  • CarmineFragione says:

    Sam Harris is wrong about the lack of God and the premise of amorality . Because if there is only one man in the entire world, what he does only has a consequence upon himself and no other. But if we say the man is one and then there is another like him, and more , then the one and the one and the one has an outside manifestation of a relationship, where morality has a consequence that impacts the one on one relationship. That outside agency is the Spirit of God that is nurturing behavior.

  • YonaArieFeinberg says:

    עורו ישראל עורו !!!
    WAKE UP ISPAEL, WAKE UP  !!!

    המילים מדברות בעד עצמן !
     THE WORDS SPEAKS FOR THEMSELVES!

  • CarmineFragione says:

    What is God before Creation, if we said as God thinks, so it is ? Then at rest before Creation , God was there and God was at rest and so what ??? What good is God to God, if God has nothing thought about and has done nothing with Himself ? How long did it take God to realize He was truly alone, and being alone was His Problem ? What moved God to think, “it is not good for the man to be alone ?” Was God solving His Problem, so He made a Son of God ? A Father is not until He has a Son.

  • danquen007 says:

    Since God can be everywhere, of course he can be Human God Allah Buddha Jew Christian Muslim Atheist Male Female you and me To explore and be the God Almighty you actually see daily in the mirror, like Moses did when Torah wrote he saw God face to face, type in YouTube Search: “THE ALMIGHTY GOD WITHIN” “GOD THE SOFTWARE” “GOD THE WORD” “WE GOD ALMIGHTY” Be God or his Partners. Practice RPR in AR. Build World Capitals. Raise the world to the next level of civilization. Good luck & be well.

  • paulagloria says:

    @paulagloria sometimes my friend DMT who posts long videos on my channel forgets he is in the channel before he leaves comments and thus people mistakenly think I left the comment. However I will take this opportunity to state that although I may well have known Hebrew in a past life and may well have the opportunity in a future life I do not now and think if that is a requirement for people understanding each other’s deeply held beliefs the world is cursed to war forever.

  • stopsmokenow says:

    @paulagloria

    sir

    go to lern the torah in hebrew !
    thats the original language of the bible.

    then come back to me.

  • CarmineFragione says:

    Free Will is the practice of anticipation by meditations on future conduct. Free Will does not permit one to sit at the piano and play it. The choice is always a practice when there is time to take pleasure in the forethought to learn to play the piano. So Free Will is not existing at the Event Horizon, in the instant gratification of the Now. It is a matter of Conditioned Responses by Nurturing , a Plan for the future to involve a pattern of behavior installed as one’s character beforehand

  • CarmineFragione says:

    Freedom does not mean to escape Natural Law. Freedom is a permissive status of one to choose to what end they might come to , as in the idea of many possible ways one can die, to come to “dooms” to be free to choose the way you may come to die, as a result of your actions, if then FREE & DOOMS It never meant the lack of accountability once one has chosen, but only that one appears ready to make a decision about what path they follow and must accept what comes of it, That is Freedom

  • YonaArieFeinberg says:

    שלום לישר-אל !
    לשלום ישראל !
    ”אל האמת” – שמע ישראל’ !!
    עורו ישראל עורו !!!

    Shalom Israel !
    For Israel’s peace !
    To the truth, The true god – Shma Israel !!!
    WAKE UP ISPAEL, WAKE UP !!!

  • CarmineFragione says:

    Yeshua Haben, Jesus , the Son, or the First Redeemed , “He who opens the womb is Holy to the Lord, and shall be redeemed for 30 pieces of silver.” How does God say ” my people, you shall know me when I open your graves and lead you forth” ? God to lead, must then also be the First Born out of the Womb of the Earth , the Son of the Resurrection, and then He is Holy to the Lord, the Redeemer, we have purchased Him for 30 pieces of silver, and He who leads is God.

  • CarmineFragione says:

    Christians live with their King, Jesus, the Christ, Messiah God. As God lives as Jesus the King, the Christian lives as the King lives. As the King dies the death of mortality, the Christian dies with the King, and is buried together in the Tomb. As God raises the King of Israel, God is Jesus the King Himself, ( Deuteronomy 32:39; “I MYSELF AM HE”) The Christian as the servant of the King, inherits what the King has, without the servant being in themselves justified to receive on their own

  • CarmineFragione says:

    to be aware of God, is to credit the space around you, the “Environment” of which you are always part of, physically,  and never can leave, but engage in the world and experience thoughts. The fool will think only they alone, in their minds can attain a conscious feeling of life, but the wise realize they are walking in the same space and place of God, whose Mind is appearing here as the Universe and events are equal to thoughts out of the Mind of God, no different than the mind of a man

  • CarmineFragione says:

    “Free Will” is the subject. God is God, whatever God thinks, if it is calm and serenely quiet or explosively violent, that is naturally what God is thinking. Man can differ from God on any point of natural occurrences of the fact of all events. Man can imagine other worlds , from heaven to hell, and impose out of their own minds, some shadow of those desires. Man then has a free will, because he is not a victim of all circumstances, but a victim both of God’s Will, and his own will.

  • CarmineFragione says:

    real Jews offer God 100 blessings a day and obey 613 Commandments of God, while fake Jews offend Catholics and all Christians to call Jesus’ Name “the curse”

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