Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser - Jewish Thought: Living in the Moment

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

so what i'd like to do is first of all define how god sees creation so i'm going to put god up here okay and you have the past the present and the future yeah past present and future and god who's outside of time would be up here above all past present and future now i'm going to ask you guys two questions the first question is is god aware of past present and future he's got aware of that what do you think god being outside god's creating past present and future but god himself is not limited to past present and future and therefore he's looking in at creation it's not aware of everything that's ever happened is happening and will happen for sure sure a prophet gets that certainly god who gives the prophecy that has that okay now the trick question is god creating right now past present and future okay that's a bit of a trick question is god creating right now past president of the future what do you say what in the same way that we are so yes but no okay that's probably the safest answer and and and very accurate one actually the answer is okay that in the kabbalah rabbis teach us that though god is aware of past present and future the actual usb cable interface of god with creation is only in the present it's only in the present in other words the future is like a is you know god's aware of it

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