Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser - Jewish Thought: Getting Your Neurons Started

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we're doing soul week this week and we're talking about the eternity of the soul and what we're focusing on yesterday was how we know we have one in the first place so let's just get straight into it and uh kind of not just discover that we have it but to get in touch with in touch with the soul so as i was saying yesterday that brain science has not found you they can't find you you don't exist on any physical level and at best you come up as a neuron i actually took a photo of a neuron um for today's class i i just got a picture of a neuron in case you want a neuron picture whatever those are neurons can you see it's this frank can you see those neurons yeah i have a question though yeah i was asked this yesterday couldn't could anyone argue that ourselves what we are is our long-term memory because people who use that they don't remember who they are or what they like right right yeah it's a really good thing it's terrible they got in an accident certainly painful for their family members yeah but uh but the people who are like the happiest guy i ever met had no memory no memory at all took me a little while to realize how what that meant because he had no reference to even what i had said 20 seconds ago

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1. 0:22we're doing soul week this week and we're talking about the eternity of the soul and…
2. 4:59it's gone you can never get it back so and the futures doesn't have a shredder…
3. 9:34you're you're being you're in spiritual training okay that phone is gonna get in the way…
4. 14:23no they're really their only right is functional they're purely functional do i need to show…
5. 19:13do you think well i'll give you we can take this room as an example uh…
6. 24:05yeah but your neurons are more interested in you second guessing that intuition and ruining it…
7. 28:46i use my neurons like when i'm engaging in my spirit then my brain's right there…
8. 33:25if that fails so whoa go somewhere else and eventually you wind up finding this kind…
9. 38:11on another building and that guy that guy is insane he's not that's not normal i…
10. 42:57you are and what you can do and what the boundaries are and most of what…

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