The Path to Heal Our Relationship with G-d - 40 Mystics Interview with Rabbi YY

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>> Wow. Jewish mysticism, I would say, is [music] the inner meaning and purpose of life. You could call it the spiritual physics of the universe and of the human psyche. You know, we are all fascinated by the progress of science, physics, medicine, biology, philosophy, psychology, cosmology, AI, and all of the miracles that keep on evolving as we learn more about ourselves and about the universe. Jewish mysticism takes it one step deeper and wants to understand what is the spiritual science of the universe and what is the spiritual innermost mechanism of the human psyche. Because only when we can integrate the outer and the inner, can we create a world of inner and outer peace and tranquility. If not, there is a dissonance. So, what often happens is there was a philosopher who once said that today people are reading more and more about less and less, or people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. If we make amazing advancements in technology and in science and in all other aspects of our ability to prolong the spat the span of people's lives, to make them financially more prosperous and comfortable. And all of these things are amazing and important. All of the advancements in our physical material world, but if we don't equally advance our spiritual consciousness, expanding our minds and our souls,

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1. 0:31>> Wow. Jewish mysticism, I would say, is [music] the inner meaning and purpose of life.…
2. 5:36name of Eldad and Medad who were prophesying. And he told Moses, put them in prison.…
3. 11:11And when I look at the sun, I don't know how the sun was created and…
4. 16:48trust, love, faith or the frequency of arrogance, guilt, shame, hatred, jealousy, need for validation, fragmentation,…
5. 21:52channel. That's what ambassadorship is. >> And that's that's really the role of the Jewish people,…
6. 27:32stonewalling each other? Without the gaslighting? [snorts] Without drifting away? Without the contempt for the other…
7. 33:11If you talk about the Hasidic revolution, the Baal Shem Tov was born in 1698. It's…
8. 38:17which is very powerful. But in Judaism we go a step deeper. And that is ultimately…
9. 43:55the peak of the hierarchy in Judaism, who people who are know that they are absolutely…
10. 49:33self-conscious and anxious because what are you going to think? What is he going to think?…

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