Stop Treating God Like a Something rather than a Someone

By Rabbi Yehoshua Simons. If you like this, please check out his channel for more, and as always, please comment down below! https://www.youtube.com/@RabbiYehoshuaSimons ------------------------------ Full lecture in essay form, with all sources: https://bit.ly/HashemHandRSimons (leads to google drive link) Chapters: 00:00 – Introduction 01:28 – The Baal Shem Tov’s Revolution: Bringing Atzmut to the World 03:04 – Essence and Expression: Your Expressions Also Don't Change Your Essence! 04:39 – Atzmus: Are We Asking "What" or "Who"? 05:36 – Atzmus: We Can Know Who Hashem Is, Through His Expressions 07:00 – The Difference Between Us Is One Of Scale And Distance Only 09:13 – Understanding the "What" of Essence Is Impossible, but Unnecessary 11:33 – Closing Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSbsECF23AtVwSsg-C… Related playlists: Hashkafa (Jewish thought and philosophy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVYGqVnEHz0&list=PLSbsECF… Hashem Needs Us (Tzorech G'voha): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clvqb2mimx8&list=PLSbsECF… Theology (Yediyat Hashem): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fXA_DhQfE0&list=PLSbsECF… ------------------------------ Music: Pale Blue Dot by Stellardrone Background Footage: Space Engine ------------------------------ **ABOUT OUR CHANNEL - DIVINE WISDOM - Live a Better Life *** Welcome to our new channel, Wisdom for the Soul. Our goal is to help us all live a better life, with true meaning and purpose, according to the wisdom of God. We believe that God's Wisdom is for all people to benefit from. Here are some of the topics we will be teaching: Kabbalah & Mysticism Spirituality Bible Studies Jewish Practice Jewish Philosophy Torah & Science and more. Here are some of the Rabbis we will be presenting: Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser Rabbi Akiva Tatz Rabbi Yitzchak Botton Rabbi Gavrien Friedman Rabbi Paysach Krohn and many more. This channel was started by Rabbi Yitzchak Botton, to help spread the knowledge of God's Divine truth, so we can all live a better life and together make this world a better place, and help hasten the arrival of the long awaited \messiah and the building of the third Temple on Jerusalem. May we all see better days when there will be world peace, and all will know the knowledge of God's Divine truth, Amen. https://www.youtube.com/user/JewsforJudaismCanada https://www.youtube.com/user/AishVideo https://www.youtube.com/user/alonanava #torah #judaism #god #kabbalah #trustingod #faith #education #rabbiyaronreuven #rabbimanisfriedman #rabbiyosephmizrachi #rabbisimonjacobson #religion #torah #spirituality #israel #soul #education #god #religion #kabbalah #faith #wisdom #love #life #rabbiyitzchakbotton #rabbiyitzchakbreitowitz #ohrsomayach #hidabroot #jli #hashem #need #chassidut #chabad #rabbiyehoshuasimons #truth #theology