Memory, Consciousness & the Afterlife: "Making Your Soul's Mixtape"

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shais Taub’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

So first of all I just want to acknowledge that Bahashem those who are here present with us in actual physical space you've joined us at the Leviet Library which is a uh a thriving center of uh early childhood education. and it's a lending library. it's a lending library. Uh it's a center of the community right here on central avenue in Cedarhurst in the five towns which is run by Kabad the five towns and the levy library is named for a young man whose yard site was just observed the shabasim ramen and this event is in conjunction with the yard site and we want encourage So, uh, tonight's lecture has an anacronistic title. You know what I mean? Anacronistic. It's uh, it's an anacronism, but I'm repeating myself. An anacronism is something that uh is out of time, meaning it's not in the right time. So, uh, I came up with the title, making your soul's mixtape. And then I started getting feedback and And then I started getting feedback and people were like, "What's a mixtape? That's so outdated. That's so old." So, I actually I I discussed it with my daughter, my 20-year-old daughter, Tyel, who does basically is my right-hand man, right-hand woman. She runs all the the back end of everything on Soul Words. So, I said, "They're they're telling me it's very outdated. Should I call it making it your um MP3 playlist?" And she, as a good 20-year-old should

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1. 0:00So first of all I just want to acknowledge that Bahashem those who are here present…
2. 6:12because from a Torah point of view, we would say quite the opposite that consciousness is…
3. 12:29one passes away, they don't disappear. In fact, they're very close by. That said, powerful uh…
4. 18:41consciousness and you understand that the materialists themselves cannot explain where this consciousness comes from. It's…
5. 24:55right now. He he didn't he didn't mean I'm going to go from this world to…
6. 31:13And he showed me is a little tape and it said Israel on it. That was…
7. 36:57That's not how Khan Vital says it. But that's how [laughter] the Tyra that you learned…
8. 43:10more than that. It's not just that the axe is more than an axe because it's…
9. 49:26And maybe he wasn't even learning a gam or maybe he couldn't even learn on his…
10. 55:39And I'll say this, if you are still embodied, please realize what an awesome opportunity it…

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