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): Deuteronomy 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).

Note: The blemish of tzara’as on a person affected only the skin. It is often mistranslated as “leprosy,” but that is completely unrelated.

Elisha, Naaman the Leper, and an Abducted Jewish Girl.