YY Jacobson: Jewish Mysticism as a Framework for Consciousness

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Rabbi YY Jacobson, it's such a privilege and pleasure to be with you here. You were one of the oral scribes of the Lubavitch Rebbe, one of the greatest people throughout Jewish history, and now you have become one of his greatest, um, Hasidim that actually go on and speak and share teachings and in your own light and in your own right as an international speaker. Thank you very much for coming. >> Thank you for the honor and the privilege. >> So, what is Jewish mysticism? >> Wow. Jewish mysticism, I would say, is the Jewish mysticism, I would say, is 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 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

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1. 0:01Rabbi YY Jacobson, it's such a privilege and pleasure to be with you here. You were…
2. 5:07don't I don't want this just to sound like, you know, we're just a bunch of…
3. 10:44think there's a very deep surrender, but not surrender from a place of weakness or naivete,…
4. 16:17one, which as the great Kabbalists and Hasidic masters said, it doesn't only mean that there's…
5. 21:53>> And that's that's really the role of the Jewish people, which is not an easy…
6. 27:32Without the gaslighting? Without drifting away? Without the contempt for the other person? That's where it…
7. 32:43Jewish mysticism has been more and more revealed in the last generations because of modernity. Uh…
8. 38:20that is ultimately we're here to serve God. We're channels of the source. And the source…
9. 44:01they are absolutely absolutely surrendered in the presence of God. That is exactly what gives them…
10. 49:39in in I would finish a class and what I needed was I was waiting for…

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