Afterlife, Past Lives Divine Judgement & Brokenness

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

Now, that the afterlife is very mysterious, we don't have a lot of details about it, but does Judaism say anything about whether we're going to be with our families or with our loved ones in the world to come? It depends. [clears throat] If you're talking about going to hell, certainly they'll be with you. There is a connection with family, parents, brothers. There's a strong connection between people that are close to each other, but there's also the concept of reincarnation and a bigger connection, reincarnation and a bigger connection, soul connection that we have in a broader sense to souls. And past again, the the story's much more layered. There's you've been here maybe 20 times or maybe we've been here so many times. So, it's a multiply layered type of story when we get there. We're not just It's not like me and my brothers. It's It's It's brothers that you you had in many lifetimes, brothers and sisters and relatives and you accomplished things and part of you accomplished this, another part of you accomplished that. It's a very very fascinating as we learn more and more Kabbalah and the writings of the Arizal, we're becoming more and more aware of this. And when Messiah comes, we'll be even more aware of it.

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2. 1:31soon enough when Messiah comes. Now, it's a really fitting for this occasion, which is the…
3. 3:34God is just constantly bringing us closer and closer, higher and higher to a better and…
4. 5:05level of where we stand. Without falling and rising, we don't even have that level that…
5. 7:09course in that way we will no longer have the temptation or we will help ourselves…
6. 8:41idea from my brother in short and you know, it should be a school for the…
7. 10:43place where the perfectly righteous can't is because getting up from a fall is much harder…
8. 12:15There's a conquering that you can do by being perfect your whole life and never even…
9. 14:16repeat in words, when you speak out what you've learned by teaching, really talking out and…
10. 15:47than I would have put than retaining the information. That should be a focus. And with…

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