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Torah Or Rani V'Simchi #3: BreathWork Through the Lens of the Alter Rebbe - Part 1

2.9K views · Jan 10, 2025

Rabbi YY Jacobson

This class explores how breathing connects to the cosmic breath of the Divine.

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okay good morning everybody Welcome middle of the first where are we we are on page lamed column 2 lamed column 2 on top it says Mikes column two we're holding at the third paragraph paragraph Yes today we're going to breathe I mean every day we should breathe every moment hopefully we're breathing but today we're going to learn about breathing the truth is that breath work has become extremely and excessively popular recently even though the disciplines of breath work have been around literally for hundreds and thousands of years and in cabala and different works of cabala andas there's a lot of discussion about it more than most people know CU it's not something that's so ingrained in the let's call it uh mainstream Jewish community oh I said hundreds of thousands years oh okay you okay I stand corrected hundreds of years and really thousands of years they said there was a professor who was talking about the future of the world he was giving this big lecture in Manhattan of course many of the people were Jewish because they always think about these things and he said that according to his calculations in 4 billion years it's obvious that the entire universe will be obliterated completely so there was an elderly Jew in the back and he started to have heart palpitations and he started to fall they called hatah to resuscitate him it was like he was about to have cardiac arrest so the professor looks and he says what are you so worried about I said four billion years in 4 billion years the world will be obliterated he said Oh I thought you said 4 million okay so people are very worried the truth is we say in the ding Alma the entire Earth is susp is suspended Alma isma a

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  1. 0:04okay good morning everybody Welcome middle of the first where are we we are on page
  2. 6:38a PhD and how to work it wouldn't have the knowledge that the body has the
  3. 12:59oh yeah what they called b bah bah yeah bah yeah you looked it up bah
  4. 19:32that's good if you're breathing on psychedelics it's a lot more than psychedelics very good very
  5. 25:56ready to do that work of true integration so it's just another it's another crutch so
  6. 32:28the Earth the light needs to come into a vessel which means containment right away a
  7. 38:52a gardener goes to the Garden Ms the lawn right plows the Earth and plants and
  8. 45:29comes from the word and from the word r which is both the same atmology means
  9. 51:57and the mailman got to come right back and then go right back and this is
  10. 58:26we call it the heartbeat and you could feel the pulse where you feel the pulse

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