Does Judaism believe that people have free will? What does “free will” really mean, according to Judaism? Where does the Torah mention free will? The Jewish G-d: What’s He Like? G-d: Judge or Teacher? My response to a letter I received which said: “The traditional Jewish G-d ...
Jonathan Levi:I mean, for me, one of the biggest issues in productivity is just the motivation. To be honest, I come off as very motivated, but at the end of the day, I'm really bad at doing things that I don't want to do. So I delegate, we talked to at Rory...
The Hebrew word "avad" can mean both "serve" and "worship," indicating that true freedom involves serving God. This phrase reveals God's desire for a relationship with His people, where they can worship Him freely. It underscores the ultimate goal of the Exodus: to bring the Israelites ...
Still, banter aside, the exchange of angelic energy is very common in our world; about as common as any exchange done by hands. And it's not miraculous or "supernatural." The effect of angelic exchange does not make savants and clairvoyants from otherwise inert human specimen, but rather ...
If the gods disappeared in favor of a God, or the Buddhas, does this not imply the truth of the reductionistic perspective? Aren't all these beings now simply figments of the human imagination? Well, that depends on what is really there. If the reductionistic case is a naturalistic and ...
What does ''It is not in Heaven'' mean? Rabbi Yirmiyah said: Since the Torah was already given at Sinai, we therefore pay no attention to Heavenly voices. After all, it is written in the Torah itself: ''After the majority one must follow'' (Exodus 23:2). Rabbi Nathan met Elijah ...
So what does it mean for Jesus to come “like a thief in the night?” The apostle Paul says, “But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. ...
“In the September 10th edition of, The American Hebrew, it is stated,'The Bolshevist revolution in Russia was the work of Jewish brains, of Jewish dissatisfaction, of Jewish planning, whose goal is to create a new order in the world. What was performed in so excellent a way in Russia,...
From the start to finish of theGuide,Maimonides emphasises time and againthat the true human self is the intellect and that true human perfection is intellectu-al:[The human’s] ultimateperfection isto becomerational in actu,Imean to have an intellect inactu; this would consist in his ...
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