Q&A: Angels, Demons, & Slavery in The Torah - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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clarification. A few weeks ago, uh we were discussing drugs as part of a spiritual experience. I don't want to go into the whole topic, but I had mentioned as a little aside that in one of Arya Kaplan's books on Judaism and meditation, he mentions an idea that maybe prophets and mubalam may have used uh drugs, mushrooms or whatever it could be to reach certain meditative spiritual states. So I just want you to clarify uh Rabbi Kaplan want you to clarify uh Rabbi Kaplan himself was not saying that was the case. He said some say that that was the case but he actually says there is no evidence to that effect. So I wanted to make it clear. I don't want anyone to accuse Rabbi Kaplan of uh advocating it. He mentioned it and then said that there is no no particular proof. I just wanted to give that correction. Uh yeah. And there's a notion that when people are stalking away and studying that certain like uh natural disasters or wars will like uh natural disasters or wars will stop well because we're studying that there's a correlation between them somehow. And my question is is this to be taken literally whatever source they use for this idea. And if um that is true, if there are is there evidence that since certain period of time more people are studying Torah that there have been less wars as because of the Yeah, this is uh actually a very very good question. There are many many many

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1. 0:00clarification. A few weeks ago, uh we were discussing drugs as part of a spiritual experience.…
2. 6:14except learning I might be able to then have a controlled experiment if it works or…
3. 12:27I'm a little scared to say it but uh the nitiv talks about it this way…
4. 18:36you're showing off your wealth or anything else so you'll get an eye in har right…
5. 24:43which would make it two out of eight, meaning one out of four. Uh there are…
6. 30:52mitzvah would be. So really it's it's it's a pellet it's one one of the great…
7. 37:04employs. So what I'm saying is it is possible to uh not necessarily look at angels…
8. 43:14excellent question. Um the truth of the matter is that uh there are some speakers I…
9. 49:24things and he was so frightened he could have been he could have been killed he…
10. 55:34obvious have somewhat different new but but you're not really focusing in that and the differences…

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