Rabbi YY Jacobson on Recognition of G-d: Focus on Naaman

In this amazing lecture, Rabbi YY Jacobson delves into four levels of recognizing G-d’s supremacy and unity. These were introduced by four key people in the Hebrew Bible:

  • Yisro (Jethro): Exodus 18:11
  • Rachav (Rahab): Joshua 2:11
  • Naaman: II Kings 5:15
  • Moshe (Moses): 4:39

A main part of this lecture focuses on Naaman, a great general of Aram in the time of Elisha. When his skin affliction of tzara’as (Lev. 13) was cured miraculously, he rejected idolatry and became a righteous Gentile (Noahide).

 

The Syrian general Naaman is cured of his skin disorder by following the instruction of the prophet Elisha to immerse in the Jordan River. See 2 Kings 5. (Image of copperplate engraving by Carl Schuler, published c. 1850.)

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