The Dibbuk

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

listen to this fascinating story this is unbelievable where elia lapion talked about a story there were a few stories of dybbuks in europe now for those of you who who don't know what a dybbuk is a dybbuk is a spirit that enters somebody okay there's different different levels of there's different different levels of spirits or whatever it is there's a concept that sometimes people have done things that are so rotten that they're not even allowed into gehenna they're not allowed into hell and that's it's they're living this horrific experience it's called the kafka where it's like a slingshot and they're basically being slung from one end of the world to the other being chased by armies of of destruction of angels whatever this means again obviously you can't it's not a physical world up there but there are souls that are living in torment and are not even allowed the torment and are not even allowed the privilege of going to gehenna because gehenna is a washing machine that's there to clean cleanse one and to bring them back to a greater place there are people who don't get a ticket they you know a person goes to heaven and he's like god i know i messed up all right please if you can give me a ticket to um to get him this way i can get washed and god says sorry man no ticket for you you don't have a ticket to ride

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1. 0:00listen to this fascinating story this is unbelievable where elia lapion talked about a story there…
2. 0:31there's different different levels of spirits or whatever it is there's a concept that sometimes people…
3. 1:02torment and are not even allowed the privilege of going to gehenna because gehenna is a…
4. 1:32you don't have a ticket to ride or as they say it the cleaners no tiki…
5. 2:34so at one point listen to this amazing story this book happened during the time of…
6. 3:04on this person's forehead and if the person starts freaking out and screaming and yelling then…
7. 3:35of uranium and the geiger counter is quiet you're like i don't know if this is…
8. 4:37screaming in pain yelling and screeching stop get away from me get away from me so…
9. 5:08the d book says the first copy of the zohar that you brought to me was…
10. 5:38same you open up the pages they're the same one was printed in a house in…

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