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Pondering vs. Meditation: What's the Difference?

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Hidabroot - Torah & Judaism

Understanding the distinction between pondering and meditation in Jewish tradition.

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What's the difference between pondering and meditation? When a person ponders, the muscles of the brain are working. He's thinking, he's analyzing. But when he's when he's meditating, a person is observing. He's letting go. And when he lets go, what happened is the idea just falls in as a gift from the heaven. When a person just observe and he does not think too much. When he lets go, he's

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