Eli Rubin: Is the Rebbe the Messiah? [Mysticism II 4/4]

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[Music] hi friends and welcome to the 1840 podcast where each month we explore a different topic balancing modern sensibilities with traditional sensitivities to give you new approaches to Timeless Jewish Ideas I'm your host David bashevkin and this month we're advocating like like yeah maybe he is maybe he isn't we're taking a side um the honest truth is I don't I wouldn't say I don't care but the point of this question of why we titled this podcast is not because it is description of the conversation first and foremost I have to be honest there's a gimmick component to it um I know for sure the guest uh today who is my dearest friend Mentor I consider him really a and a rebi of the highest order and that a forthcoming book I don't think it's out yet it's called cabala and the rupture of modernity in existential history ofab he also was involved along with uh Philip Wexler and his son a different book called social Vision which is about the Reb's approach to uh social services and really his mystical approach to to social ideas I'm bringing this up because I could say definitively I know this for an absolute fact Ellie Rubin did not want our conversation to be theological questions seriously very often we have a discomfort in talking theology theology I'm I'm trying not to use uh Torah words even like sometimes we'll call it sometimes we'll call it cabala is like Jewish thought or I don't like any of those titles I actually like the title theology I like theology because it is a discipline that is coming to ask the most Cosmic questions about existence about the

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