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Five Cups, Five Worlds

1.2K views · Apr 11, 2025

Rabbi Mendel Kessin

A discussion on the symbolic meaning of the five cups in Jewish tradition and their connection to spiritual transformation.

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  1. 0:00The four cups arosis and of course the cup of alo. What is that? Why do…
  2. 0:30interesting is the gamatria when God said to and afterwards they would go out. Of course,…
  3. 1:00possessions that God would give us and he would take it out of Egypt with us.…
  4. 1:31we have four lines of gu of redemption and we drink it to tell us that…
  5. 2:05ronius guess who did that elohi so we have a fifth cup saying that ultimately it's…
  6. 2:36had to become spiritual at some level. And that's why he didn't have to eat for…

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