
How much choice do you really have in life? Are you living your own life - or the story someone else has written for you?
In a fascinating lesson on the Parshat Lech Lech, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson reveals the profound meaning of the first commandment to Abraham. "Go from your country, from your homeland, and from your father's house" - this is not just a geographical instruction. It is a revolutionary call to free yourself from three influences that have shaped you: the culture you grew up in, the environment that educated you, and the messages you received from your parents.
The rabbi explains how modern science confirms the Torah's division of the brain into three parts, why Marx, Freud, and Spinoza tried to deny your freedom of choice, and how the hostages who returned from Gaza reveal to us the truth about the infinity within us.