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Q&A: Jewish Survival, Fitness, AI & Faith - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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es on different types of drugs to help them like expand their state of consciousness. Is there a difference between a mental health on the daily taking something to help with their mental health and then taking something to help them feel more connected to the world? >> Is the question about revealing it? I mean what what what is the the question or >> is there a problem like people like is there a reason why between someone who takes daily medications for mental health and somebody would say that you know they feel like you know doing these sort of taking different kinds of >> oh I see in other words um they're taking some type of psychedelic drug >> yeah yeah you know uh this is a a very difficult issue you'd be very surprised urprised that um the use of some micro dosing of psychedelic drugs is actually getting getting to be relatively popular. Uh I'm talking about the most orthodox people. I mean people come I remember a husband and wife uh came to me from Mayarin elderly people like you know in their 80s and they were talking about keamman and all the different exciting uh developments and uh putting aside the issue of legality because if if if these things are illegal you know you got to pay attention to it but assuming they're not illegal um I believe that uh psychedelics do have a positive role to play uh there's a reason why a kadeshu made And many many people report amazing

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