Is God Silent? | Forest Sessions Ep.2

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yaakov Klein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

in today's frenetic world we rarely have an opportunity to pause and reflect I'm stepping out of the rush to reflect on the things that matter most and I would love for you to join me take a deep breath welcome to the farest [Music] sessions some people are under the illusion that if there is a God he's silent in truth there is literally nothing louder than God he is perpetually speaking every particle of physicality into existence Everything You Touch everything you hear feel experience it's all an encounter with him it's an opportunity for dialogue with the Divine speech that communicates through the interface of Nature and The Human Experience the letters of God's continual utterances right like we say the beginning of The KES how Hashem spoke the world into creation so those letters of hashem's continual utterances which he didn't just speak then but he continues to speak takes place within the solidification of his words his desires his thoughts his feelings articulated again K so to speak in in the aspect of the way in which God can sort of you know desire and think and and feel and speak but whatever this means our experience of of of our Human Condition takes place within the solidification of those words right his desires thoughts and feelings articulated in the act of Perpetual creation those words in the constant Act of their being spoken leave the figurative mouth of God again just in Parable and travel through the cosmic atmosphere to eventually become concretized in the form of Nature and the world as we know it we live our lives within his thesis infinitely complex his poem infinitely beautiful his vision infinitely deep the verbalization of his

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1. 0:03in today's frenetic world we rarely have an opportunity to pause and reflect I'm stepping out…
2. 0:33physicality into existence Everything You Touch everything you hear feel experience it's all an encounter with…
3. 1:03continues to speak takes place within the solidification of his words his desires his thoughts his…
4. 1:35creation those words in the constant Act of their being spoken leave the figurative mouth of…
5. 2:06will God is speaking all the time the question is whether we will Merit to open…
6. 3:11simple level Bo ala means of course Hashem is telling them come into the ark right…
7. 3:45echoing perpetually within every aspect of the physical Human Experience no matter what it is that…
8. 4:15and I'll piala without getting into the depth of this what I'm basically referring to here…
9. 4:45sparked the entire process and we can do this every minute of Life literally every minute…
10. 5:15how we want to live in this world do we want to see nature that locks…

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