Emunah: Faith Beyond Religion | The Truth Hurts, Ep. 43

The conversation

There are moments when you feel you're simply not ready, and you still have to show up, decide, keep moving. Gili knows that feeling well too. The gap doesn't close with more effort. It closes with faith (*emunah*). The more of it there is, the less you need to push and strain. A lot of the beliefs running our lives today, she says, were picked up back in childhood, and they're still writing our reality now. Sometimes all it takes is to stop and ask what exactly they're costing us.

The truth

Faith and effort sit on two sides of a scale. The more faith rises, the less effort is needed.

Blind faith means believing before there is any proof, exactly like the moment before the splitting of the Red Sea.

The way Gili presents it, to become the person you want to be, it helps to picture a clear future version of yourself and to ask, every time you have a decision to make, what she would do.

Gili says that many of the beliefs running our lives today were picked up back in childhood, from our parents and from the people closest to us.

A negative emotional reaction is almost always a sign of a belief that makes us read the situation that way, not a sign of the situation itself.

Gili describes faith as a muscle. It gets stronger with practice, and every day brings another small test of it.

Questions and answers

Do you even believe in the Creator?

Gili answers that yes, she is a great believer in the Creator, but for her the most important part is acting from a place that sees every person as a soul that comes from the same Source, and not necessarily keeping specific commandments. She sees the mitzvot (commandments) as a tool for refining the soul, but she puts more weight on the human and emotional side: accepting other people and not judging them, even when you don't agree with them.

Gili's original episode description

In this episode, which is also a filmed one, Gili and Tal go deep into a subject that carries real weight: faith. The episode takes faith in its broad, elevated sense, not necessarily from a religious perspective, but as a force of the soul and the spirit.

They focus on how faith can be the engine of a life and can give us strength in moments of weakness or doubt. Gili and Tal look into what faith means in everyday life, and how it shapes decisions, relationships and the way we handle challenges.

The episode offers insights into the differences between religious faith and personal faith, and into how each of us can develop and strengthen an inner faith, regardless of any particular religious or spiritual affiliation.

They give examples from their own lives and from the wider world, talk about the effect faith has on the soul and on the body, and suggest ways to build up self-belief and to deal with doubts.

The episode invites you to think about what faith really is in your life and how it can be a tool for making the human experience better, recognizing that faith is not only a religious idea but also a deep, universal emotion that connects us to our inner world and to the universe.

About the podcast

Listening to The Truth Hurts feels like sitting in on a healing session.

The truth can hurt. It’s right there in the name. But we’re not here to cause pain. Quite the opposite.

In each episode, two women sit down for an honest conversation: an Emotional Healer and her client.

We talk about healing and consciousness, faith and science, the body and soul, personal growth, energy, and different approaches to healing. Above all, we face the truth no one says out loud: everything around us is upside down.

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