Q&A: Is Kabbalah Dangerous?

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

Should we be learning Kabbalah and how should we learn it? Rabbi, so what do you think? Should we be learning Kabbalah? And do you learn Kabbalah? I think you should learn Kabbalah. If I say I learn Kabbalah then I I secret I'm not supposed to say. So if I say I don't learn Kabbalah then who's going to listen to my answer? So what do I do? I plead the fifth. There you go. Once upon a time it was very secret and very forbidden to learn Kabbalah if you were a simple person that wasn't elite in in Jewish scholarship. The The leaders of the leaders of the Jewish leaders of the leaders of the Jewish people learned the secret wisdom of Kabbalah and that's why it was so secret that not everybody really understood that it was so real. But the real leaders did know it was real. Kabbalah first of all, let's understand what Kabbalah is. Kabbalah is a secret wisdom, a secret ideas from Torah, part of the oral Torah, the oral tradition, given to Moshe Rabbeinu together with the written Torah and all of the oral tradition that are halakhic detailed information like how to put on tefillin, what tefillin should look like. So together with that were given also all

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1. 0:00Should we be learning Kabbalah and how should we learn it? Rabbi, so what do you…
2. 2:03rabbis, modern-day sages, that explain that spiritually things change, and therefore what we do changes. Even…
3. 4:08changed the standard. Um different Kabbalists have different views and different approaches. There are some rabbis…
4. 6:14that's rooted in in in Kabbalah called the Nefesh HaChaim, he sanctioned it for regular people,…
5. 8:17almost certainly going to be misguided, misled, and a lot of complex ideas. And you have…
6. 10:47things and try to like, you know, redeem demons and force demons to serve you. That's…
7. 12:50we talk about only in the realm of godliness in that God reveals himself through these…
8. 14:55contain the light, which on the one hand conceal the light and on the other hand…
9. 16:57God as many different units if we look at the 10? And of course, that is…
10. 18:59By ways of angels and and ministering angels and what we call the sarim that run…

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