We ‘see God,’ or ‘vision God,’ not with the eye’s sight, but only with intellectual understanding. I refute this view … we are in God’s image only because we can experience the intellectual apprehension of the divine intellect. People have thought that the word image, used in “In God’s image humans were created” (Genesis 1:26) meant that God has a man’s body … they believed in this, and thought that if you didn’t understand God as having a body, then you were making God into “nothing.” Maybe God was not flesh and blood, they thought, but God’s form was of the physical world. Rambam (13th century Spanish Rabbi/physician/philosopher) For each text, try to come up with a one sentence summary. The Rabbi David Aaron piece is, without a doubt, the most focused on arguing for God - so it is probably best to show that one after one of the others.Ĭhoose from these texts to offer a diverse set of approaches to theology within a Jewish context. I think God is an idea that worked a long time ago, but now that we have science, people should realize that God is not real.Īll of these clips are meant to generate questions about God and the God idea.God is like an invisible energy of love that connects all beings.God is a word and an idea, but isn’t something real.Sometimes I?think that good things or bad things happen to people because of God.I think that there is a God who created the world, but I do not think that God rewards and.Did some people pick opposite signs? What would other people in their lives say? For example, pick a grandparent and choose where you think they would go. Debrief with them about why they chose what they chose and what it might say about them. Have guys go first to one that feels close to their belief, then go to one which feels far away.
Place these different statements about belief on pieces of paper around the room.
To encourage participants to reflect upon their own beliefs and experiences regarding God.To explore personal connections to prayer language and practice.To draw attention to the way that gender connects to discussions of God.
To create a safe forum for reflection and discussion about God.“What does it mean to be made in the ‘image of God’? Is there some aspect of man that is also part of God? And if so, how does what we do in life change when we wish to connect to this aspect? Goals In some ways, the spirituality of Jewish men over the last centuries has been defined by this wrestling, and approached from many different angles to answer the question: But the questions about what is the ultimate source of meaning in life is clearly on their minds.įrom the time of Jacob, Jewish men have been “wrestling” with the divine. Teen boys in particular would sooner believe in alien life forms than they would a heavenly deity. Today, most Jewish men (and women) have a hard time relating to the idea of God the father. God is Abraham’s father figure, and the idea of “God the father” - a father who is both compassionate and vengeful, intimate and distant - runs through the Jewish narrative. At the same time, Abraham was willing to argue with God and to defy God. Abraham loved God and was, in many ways, blindly devoted to God’s command. The paradox of Jewish spirituality is evident in the very first Jewish man. Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.
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