Does Reb YY Jacobson Agree With Reb Manis? 

Yes!!!! He is wicked as well!!!

Go preach somewhere else. We all pray to the same creator. How ignorant to assume one’s belief is the tree stump and not the branch leading to השם

@blonderover Like the Psalm came to Ibrahim and subsequent Prophets, then Torah came to supercede it, and so did the Quran... Revelation comes depending on the stages and level of knowledge of the people of that time period. Like Prophet Adam AS time and Prophet Seth AS time revelation was limited compared to Psalm, which went deeper because the capacity and knowledge of man was limited before then. For example, at the kindergarten stage, you teach the basics of learning to write and read. You do not give the child a PHD. exam or degree level exam. You give them basic knowledge and test. It does not mean you changed the truth or laws. It just means that at that time, they were not ready. As they mind and capacity to take on knowledge increases with age, so does the training and exam and knowledge they have expected to increase so harder exams, step by step the child progresses. So thats what Allah swt did with revelation and spirituality, He (swt) nurtured man to progress and increase knowledge in spirituality and thus laws and rules increased. Then Psalm was revealed, which went deeper into spiritual and laws, then Torah came and went deep as the capacity and knowledge of man grow. In the same way, the Quran was revealed, which goes deeper and higher as higher law as man capacity increased and communication and travel became easier. In the time of the Torah, travelling was limited, as the children of Isreal and the Prophets could not bring revelation to Aborginals in Australia. So Allah swt ordered the children of Isreal and the Prophets to teach revelation only to the people they encountered. But as sailing and communication increased with the spread of books and knowledge sharing, Quran was revealed to give to mankind. The truth and laws never changed, they were adjusted to capacity of mankind at this time period as we can take on more. Mankind is not expected now to to sit a kindergarten exam they are expected to take on higher degree level exam and test.

Go deeper into the art of how life is created or engineered. The intelligence of nature's patterns is beyond grasp. Judaism avoids using a name for "the creator" which is often called "the name" because explaining Gd is beyond human capacity. I like that. How to work with creation is a question that will never be fully answered. This doesn't mean that there is nothing and "Gd" is non existant. The art of creation is hard to grasp and I can see why people struggle with the idea of a Gd.

You are envoking the Moreh Nevuchim approach. There is nothing wrong with that per se, but there are other shitas in approaching the question. Also, don't forget, it says וגדולתו אין חקר. So even the ידע שלילי that you envoke has some baggage of issues.

@@uriel7203 That is why it is impossible to define or comprehend who and what the primordial Creator is. The study of astrophysics is, along with all applied science, a relatively new phenomenon in the history of man. Even the most knowledgeable scientist understands that with each new discovery how much we really don't understand. If it took hundreds of centuries to get to the point of being able to measure the speed of light then how can mortal man even begin to understand who and how light was created? As I have always said the first chapter of the first book in the Torah, Bereshit, does not explain how or why Ha Shem created the universe, it is a statement that he did. The Torah is not a book of science nor is it supposed to be. It is the mission of scientist to unlock the secrets Ha Shem used in order to create the physical universe. To try to understand the nature, the understandable attributes of Ha Shem and why he created this world, one must look to the teachings of the Kabbalah. BTW I am not a Jewish scholar or wise in the teachings of Torah or Talmud. I was a craftsman, a brick and stone mason, and in my old age a chicken farmer. Sometimes the answers to very complex questions are revealed when working with ones hands and getting chicken shit on ones fingers.