Wednesday, 8 December 2021

Character Growth - Self, Others & God - Rabbi YY Jacobson


3:00  Nietzsche: "[The] God [of Christianity] is dead and we [liberals] have killed him [with liberalism]."

4:00  The American, French and Russian Revolutions have been rejections of Christianity and monarchy. What does Rabbi Jacobson think of the West becoming an Islamic Republic and taking out the idolatry and blasphemy of Christianity with the trash?

17:00  Our innate primal drives are to be embraced and harnessed. 

The role of the Yetzer Hara
Midrash (Bereshit Rabbah 9:7) states:

"Without the evil inclination, no one would father a child, build a house, or make a career."

26:00  The things we could live without

27:00  "To be alive is to be an ambassador for the divine."

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