Kabbalah & Mysticism: When GOD Spoke to You Me & the Rest of the World

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

one of the big questions I get when speaking about Jewish mysticism is really I think a very important question to address and that is where does Jewish mysticism come from you know and why do we call it Jewish mysticism if these are mystical Concepts that are true Concepts about the essence of creation and of how the world works and the Soul within mankind that why don't we just call it mysticism why does it get that extra label Jewish mysticism it get that extra label Jewish mysticism and while we're on this point let's ask further what would be the difference between Jewish mysticism and some other type of Mystic type of principle of thoughts that are out there is there other types of mysticism that we compete with as is there Jewish mysticism communicating against some other type of mysticism right we cannot claim to be the only uh religion in the world that has access to Mystical powers and mystical Concepts right so let's address that I think very very fundamental and important to set very fundamental and important to set the record straight um I'd like to start off with a very bold statement I believe at the end of this discussion you will all uh agree that it is absolutely true as well as bold is that there is no such thing as mysticism in the world other than Jewish mysticism how does that sound did I sell you on it yet so now's where the selling begins and I think I might have upset anyone that's going to be watching this later on you know on the other platforms that it'll

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1. 0:00one of the big questions I get when speaking about Jewish mysticism is really I think…
2. 2:07and when did this wisdom start to exist well it always existed in God's head so…
3. 4:09image how do we reach that Divine image and move away from the animal that Hashem…
4. 6:14a person like Moshe that wrote a book also he wrote a book like this author…
5. 8:16from I trust my parents that they care about me and that they wouldn't willfully and…
6. 10:54world one secret that not everybody is aware of is when God gave the Bible to…
7. 12:58be black boxes they should be square they should have parchments on the fill in over…
8. 15:00worlds physical spiritual and they and many many worlds according to Kabbalah there are many worlds…
9. 17:06worlds not many gods and one world fortunately when you have many gods in one world…
10. 19:09again not going to be an absolute proof but it's going to really give us some…

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