Theme: Who You Are When No One Is Looking
What is the driving force inside you? Is it Freud’s Id, or is there something more? According to the 4000-year-old tradition of Kabbalah, the human being is fundamentally a good and Divine creature — and it’s not the Id that drives you, but the soul. No matter what happens to you in life that conceals your soul, your soul (AKA the inner pilot flame) is always alive inside you. Join best-selling author and counselor-to-thousands Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short talk on your inner spark. Discover your inner goodness today!
This is an excerpt from: The Kabbalah of the Big Bang
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Do You Live Your Life From the Inside Out or From the Outside In?
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 @8:30pm
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[1] Talmud Horiot 10b. As G-d told Moses: “I have given you greatness only for them” (ibid., Berachot 32a)
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Rabbi, I do question about the spark. You don’t think first that bad parenting or horrific circumstances can’t snuff out the spark. Yes. Many are more resilient but what about the others. What about the suicides from extremely hardships or young people committing suicide from depression, drugs, those fallen through the cracks etc. Your thoughts?. I am just wondering how much the role of denial plays in this. Love your presentations. Thank you!
There has been so much dysfunction within the Jewish journey in particular due to misalignment with Hashem’s truth that presumably good parents got lost, leaving the offspring very lost, confused, disoriented, and feeling alone. Yet it behooves us to have faith in Hashem’s goodness and know that we are capable of change, that there is help out there, that a willingness to search for truth and rid ourselves of misconceptions, especially now, is easier than it’s ever been before. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. We just have to aim to use our free will to the optimum and get close to Hashem.
Rabbi, about the authors of works like the selfish gene. I can’t help but get thoughts. That such people are, too well informed about the worst things happening in the world. Also they understand about the worst behaviours of people in extreme situations. This skews their perspective and therefore their perceptions. In such a way, that they lose sight of the everyday people! The Majority! Yes we can all be biased in some way or many ways. But by and large everyday people, wish to get on with everyone. And it’s mostly down to ignorance, and what the narratives about people that they do not know and therefore don’t understand. That determines their attitudes. Most people I have observed are not selfish or self interested. They in my personal experience, just want to like and have the best of times with others. It’s rare that people want to exploit and manipulate others! Even though there are, Those who do unfortunately! And these people I find are cynical. Yet people tend to view strangers, that they never get to know, with suspicion or disdain or worse. The issue with most people is they do not often see others as they see themselves. Because of some differences!