The Zohar: Judaism's Foundational Mystical Text

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When you even look at the the the Hebrew word Mahutenu, [music] like what translated as what is our essence, you you really have the word there as >> [music] >> as ma, like what? >> I never put that together. Mahut is like your whatness. >> It's your what It's your whatness, cuz it's the Hebrew is so beautiful in that it makes it personal. It's like It's >> [music] >> What's What's your what? >> Okay. This is really exciting, and in >> Okay. This is really exciting, and in many ways this is like an experiment that neither of us have ever tried. I have definitely interviewed people on podcasts before. You have definitely studied and you've met with people before. What we're going to try to do today is something really unique, uh which is we're going to have a conversation, but it's going to be a conversation through Havruta. Havruta is one-on-one study, just like this. But I'm sure you have Havrutas in your personal life. I have in my personal life. And the beauty of Havruta, I've always felt, is the way that the always felt, is the way that the conversation kind of emerges from the text, where the text acts as like a a springboard, like a What do you have in in in your backyard, um that you jump a trampoline? Exactly. It's like a trampoline for conversation. It'll It propels conversation. Instead of talking about what we had for lunch, which happened to have been delicious, uh we get to talk about and respond and react to the text. And this text in particular, and why we are doing this together, is really incredible. This is

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1. 0:00When you even look at the the the Hebrew word Mahutenu, [music] like what translated as…
2. 5:40get to something that resembles happiness. >> Yeah, I think there's a rule, I think it's…
3. 11:54the material world. And the more that we learn about the material world, I think as…
4. 18:01discipline with four very succinct, very approachable questions. One, I think most of them are ones…
5. 24:14talking to you, only by getting to know you, only by studying you, only by making…
6. 30:25essence. What is our essence? What what are we? I think it's the most foundational question…
7. 36:05tevu'os ketanos hemenu of which each of us is but a small link. How do we…
8. 43:20we're not as sure as we were 75 years ago about >> But and so if…
9. 49:28places. He was looking towards some philosophy, some some practice that would make him feel whole…
10. 55:33required them where they found the capacity to rearticulate what their faith is. A a kind…

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