Basics of Emunah #2 By Can Faith and Reason Co-Exist?

Basics of Emunah #2: Can Faith and Reason Co-Exist? What is the Meaning of Faith? by Rabbi YY Jacobson
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[@stevenkressel6961]

62 years I have been waiting to hear this lecture on Emunah. I am a Jew, a non observant Jew that has been "trying" all his life. I am a retired LTC, US Army and have been living a non Jewish life, tattoos and all. I pray this is the beginning of light. TY

[@sgepner1]

I love and like your great shiurim, you are a gift from hashem, יהי רצון שיפוצו מעיונותיך החוצה

[@georgefleischman9707]

That demonstration of the Blind Spot, while impressive, is nothing compared to what I experience every day of my life. When I was a teenager, I was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa. In case you are not familiar with it, it is an eye disease that is normally hereditary and progressive (not in a political sense), and as of now has no known cure. It destroys the retina from the outside edge, inward toward the central vision, resulting in gradually losing the peripheral vision, leaving only a dwindling central vision sometimes referred to as “Tunnel vision". Depending on the rate of progression, one can lose their vision in relatively few years, or stretch it out till late in life. God was kind to me, and the progression to my eyes has paused for most of my life, baffling the experts, and allowing me to live my life without anyone knowing about my “problem” even though I am now 71. For sake of brevity I am leaving out many interesting details, but suffice to say that I was not totally surprised when about 15 years ago the progression restarted, and my window to the world started closing. But in spite of this, it took me a long time to figure out what really was going on, and that I should no longer be driving a car. And this is what I want to tell you about. You see the reason I was still driving was because although my eyesight was constricting, I did NOT know that I couldn’t see the things that I thought that I saw. It took me a long while to figure out that my actual sight was about the size of a grapefruit held at about an arm’s length. When I was behind the wheel of the car, or even now when I am being driven around, I think that I see the whole view in the windshield. What is happening is that I have gotten into the habit of “scanning” the scene in front of me, and my brain builds the picture in real time of what it knows should be there, resulting in me “seeing” a large image. But this image that the brain fills in is in high resolution, and if there is a pattern involved as when I walk over carpeting with elaborate weaves, the area surrounding my actual vision is filled in with the proper extrapolated pattern in Real-Time. This is good, and it is bad. It is good because I am not living in darkness as some pictures seem to depict “tunnel vision”. But it is bad because sometimes I lose concentration and forget that I am limited and tend to bump into things and people and trip over things. Also when I drop something on the floor, I have no idea where it is until I move back and scan the place where I dropped it. In your lecture about the eye’s Blind Spot, you mentioned that the eyes fill in the empty area of the Blind Spot, But I don’t think that a person with a healthy eyesight could ever fully imagine the Miracle that I have gotten to regard as “normal”. I hope this brief descriptive gives you enough insight to this Chesed from Hashem that allows me to live a near normal life without thoughts of self pity. Yechiel F.

[@yuvalmirsky]

אין כמוך!

[@maurizioatlann6737]

...vos brother Simon alain je amazing !!!

[@markmarcinkowski5509]

how may I get the study guild? I have to listen 2 and 3 times and want to listen more.

[@1celibidache224]

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[@al2lewy]

That is what I am addicted to the rabbanim Jacobson And Friedman: they are for answering and against taboo ! Here one. In a great kibbutz I had the chance to meet an old man that was born in Poland before the 2nd world war... he was the first born of many children from a very religious family. So he clearly told his father that they shall all quite Poland for """paletstine"""" the father asked his rav that answered : no but mostly they shall pray and study more. So the father did and worked less, but the mother had young children and went to work outside but got sick, without having enough and the persecutions were growing, the oldest one again said to his father to go all of them. The mother told him that he shall get back to work for the family but the father again went to his rav... that again answered the same. Studying and praying even more. Than the mother died, the family was moved to a ghetto some of the children got very unhealthy and the oldest child told again his father the same solution but that time he said that he'll go alone or with them, but he won't accept any more to wait for what is obvious. The father went again and again to his rav... that answered only that same answer. So Karmit left alone, no one from his family survived to nazism. He built a Israeli family, and a kibbutz. When I asked a religious man in charge of all the mikvei in a small but charming city of the Negev, how come and how often that rabbinic power over our people could be so strong.... he answered "that isn't true it can't have been " Let me say clearly that it has been so. And I'm not certain if there's a big difference between the two religious blindness ? ? ?

[@jonerlandson1956]

*was God alone at creation?* ... no... because... you cannot expand without first contracting... you cannot exhale without first inhaling... there would be no purpose... God was not alone at creation... God had purpose.... we speak of God's infinite love... but... do we know about God's infinite hatred?...