The Evolution of Jewish Mysticism

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The opening of this shiur, in The Parsha In My Life - Rabbi Reuven Wolf’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

straight straight thank you [Music] tonight of this it's a mystical night it's a night of great revelation so the Torah excuse me by your side so the Torah excuse me by your side wrapped out of the students and revealed the Deep the the secrets that he's never revealed ever on this day leading up to his passing so it's a night that decides the tuning in with the dancing and the celebration for to delve and to connect to the mystical side of the Torah which is actually called the line of Toro so the Heim and everybody that wants to get a little bit of time you can have it online or a few of times there and you know what yeah we'll have a side and you know what yeah we'll have a side of mashkin over here if anybody wants to rewind meanwhile we'll get going because we're a little few minutes off schedule but this is actually the schedule here's where we're at so uh the first talk tonight is going to be on the subject of the origins of mysticism of Kabbalah in in Torah where does it begin and kind of a brief history throughout the ages of the tradition of the mystical side of the of the kabbalists the hidden element

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1. 0:04straight straight thank you [Music] tonight of this it's a mystical night it's a night of…
2. 6:17question what is the significance of that what's so great anybody can make up names obviously…
3. 12:30know it's like probably just a chemical reaction for me but whatever it is you feel…
4. 18:41and all these various different these are the sparms that you have yeah but there is…
5. 24:45is not the story not understand for everything but people don't know that much is in…
6. 36:37and it was the Book of Zohar is a tribute to the high a book in…
7. 42:50through ripsham now we're going to get to it the book of Zara itself was not…
8. 49:04heaps of heaps of Allah is on the crowns of the letters you know teaching mysticism…
9. 55:33from worms and he is a his book is one of the very primary fundamental books…
10. 1:01:41God even at the cost of my life if someone would try to force me to…

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