Series on Belief
| Site: | Academy of Shem |
| Course: | Noahide Laws & Life Cycle Course with Rabbi Avraham Chaim Bloomenstiel |
| Book: | Series on Belief |
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| Date: | Friday, November 22, 2024, 12:49 AM |
1. Lesson A: God
Outline of Lesson
Introduction
2. God the Transcendent and Immanent
3. The Transcendent Aspect of God
4. The Immanent Aspect of God
5. The Experience of God vs. The Reality of God
6. God’s Incorporeality
7. Other Issues
8. Overview
2. Lesson B: Man, Reward, and Punishment
Outline of Lesson:
1. Introduction
2. The Purpose of Creation
3. Partaking of True Good
4. Free Will
a. Internal Aspects: Yetzer Tov vs. Yetzer Hara
b. External Aspects: Man vs. the World
5. Reward & Punishment
a. Reward in This World
b. Middah Keneged Middah – Measure for Measure
3. Lesson C: The Soul
Outline of Lesson:
1. The Material Body & the Immaterial Soul
2. The Glassblower
3. The Three Expressions of the Soul
4. The Five Expressions of the Soul
5. The Expressions of the Soul in This World
6. The Lower Soul
7. The Immortality of the Soul
8. Gilgul HaNeshomos – Reincarnation
4. Lesson D: The Afterlife, Messiah, and Redemption
Outline of Lesson:
1. Introduction
2. Keeping Perspective
3. “Heaven” and “Hell”
4. Gan Eden
a. The Lower Garden
b. The Upper Garden
5. Shoel / Chibbut HaKever
6. Gehinnom
7. Olam HaBa
5. Lesson E: The Moshiach
Outline of Lesson:
1. Introduction
2. The Pre-Messianic Era
a. Changes in Religion and Belief
b. Rise of Atheism
c. Social & National Upheaval & Decline
d. Increase in Secular Knowledge
3. Ingathering of Exiles
a. Restoration of Prophecy
b. Cultivation of the Land
4. The War of Gog and Magog
5. The Two Messiahs
6. Eliyahu HaNavi – Elijah the Prophet
6. Lesson F: The Moshiach II
Outline of Lesson:
1. Introduction
2. Criteria for the Davidic Messiah
a. When Will the Messiah Arrive?
3. A Descendant of David
a. Jewish Ancestry
b. From the Tribe of Judah
4. A King of Israel
5. Return of the Jewish People to Israel
6. Rebuilding of the Temple
a. Reestablishment of the Sanhedrin
b. The Temple Service
7. Establishing Peace and the End of All Wars
8. He Will Bring Awareness of God
a. Free Will
b. Conversion
9. The Messiah’s End
7. Lesson G: Prophecy & Inspiration
Outline of Lesson:
1. Introduction
2. Siyata D’Shmaya – Divine Assistance
3. Ruach HaKodesh – Divine Inspiration
4. Nevuah – Prophecy
a. Conditions for Prophecy
i. Land of Israel and Her People
ii. The Ark of the Covenant
iii. Worthiness of the Individual
iv. Master & Guide
b. The Experience of Prophecy
c. Public Prophecy
d. The Prophecy of Moses
e. Prophecy's End
8. Lesson H - The Supernatural
Outline of Lesson:
1. Introduction
2. Supernatural vs. Natural
3. Ghosts
4. Apparitions
5. Angels
6. Dybbuk & Gilgul
7. Exorcism
8. The Shedim