Authentic Jewish Spirituality Pt. 5 | The Path of Teshuva

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dov Ber Weisman’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Okay, we're on number three. We're going through the five paths of creating true spiritual vitality, enlightenment, and greatness. And don't [snorts] forget that your soul is full of love and joy. Your soul is pure, is connected, is full of love and joy, vitality, playfulness, compassion, everything you want, you already have. Judaism is not a path towards enlightenment. Judaism is a path to reveal that you're already enlightened. It's all there. You have it all. In your soul, but you just have to reach your soul. You have to connect to your soul. Just like we said, the sun is always shining and the sky is always blue. It's just that many days there's clouds in the way, so you can't appreciate the blue sky and the sun. It's always there. Your soul is so full of immense vitality. And that's why your body and your ego aren't, and they're heavy and they're putting you down, and that's where the dopamine uh addiction comes from. Cuz I just want to feel alive. Now, why do you want to feel alive? It's actually coming from a good place. It's coming from a good place. Your soul is so alive. Your soul is so deeply connected, but because your body and ego is so heavy and selfish and and consumerist and dead, it needs these peak experiences to feel something, and it's actually coming from a holy place. So, I said just tell us a crazy thing. That even your most sick, dirty, immoral desires are actually coming from a holy place. They've just been filtered down through your ego and your physical

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1. 0:00Okay, we're on number three. We're going through the five paths of creating true spiritual vitality,…
2. 2:05time you do something that isn't good for your soul, then you create more dirt, actually.…
3. 4:13feeding it the whole time and identifying with it. The second session we were doing was…
4. 6:16Imagine he calls you up one day before Shabbat and he says, "Look, Dad, I messed…
5. 8:48it's saying I'm bad I'm bad I'm bad. But it's not. It's saying the opposite. Exactly…
6. 10:53This is great. Why is it great? >> Cuz he's aware. >> Because 6 months ago…
7. 12:56then just beat yourself up and you get depressed and whatever. And Rebbe Nachman says, "Whatever…
8. 15:31Amazing holy holy woman. Wrote a book. Amazing woman. And she called me up crying. She…
9. 17:38saying you're bad, by saying I'm so good. I'm so good, and that's so below me.…
10. 19:42it when you're alive. If you didn't do real chuvah when you're alive, then your soul…

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