Jewish mysticism
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Oct 9, 2026
Dahlia RoseGUEST
Others are meant to ground and structure.
Dahlia RoseGUEST
And so human design, takes astrology, Chinese I Ching, Jewish mysticism, and it throws it into this container that really gives you an opportunity to nurture as much of yourself as you can And to see that who you are is right, fit, and powerful in this world.
Dahlia RoseGUEST
And you were never meant to be someone else.
Dahlia RoseGUEST
I mean, I know that sounds common, but it truly is when you can see what the stars have put together for you.
Mark BoothGUEST
Niels Bohr, who was the kind of all father of quantum mechanics, is widely rumored to have been a Freemasonry, a Freemason.
Mark BoothGUEST
When those guys were looking at, at the weird things they were seeing in the quantum realm, they knew they needed to find new models of thought to explain it, so they turned to the Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism.
Mark BoothGUEST
They turned to alchemy.
Mark BoothGUEST
That was Niels Bohr's particular interest, and alchemy has always been very central to Freemasonic study.
David LazersonGUEST
Uh, I think it was Buckminster Fuller who was one of the designers, you know, who really kind of spread that, that philosophy around, and that architectural design.
David LazersonGUEST
But anyhow, I, so then I'm sort of giving that up to- because my last semester I also took a course with, um, uh, the, I'm looking through the course catalog, I needed one more three-hour course, and, um, I see a course called Jewish Mysticism.
David LazersonGUEST
So-
speaker_2HOST
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Justin SledgeHOST
They are all really, really great, so consult those if you are able at all.
Justin SledgeHOST
If you're interested in a translation and analysis of the Tzara Torah mysticism, recall this was a means by which to summon the angelic Torah prints to supernaturally learn Jewish lore, then the absolute best text here is Matthew Schwartz's Scholastic Magic, Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism.
Justin SledgeHOST
This really wonderful volume explores and analyzes the surviving texts of this form of magical mysticism and is well worth checking out.
Justin SledgeHOST
And as I mentioned earlier, I'll be doing an episode on both Tzara Torah mysticism and this sort of astral body mysticism that we see in the Kabbalah.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
And he says that he doesn't have to keep the chumre makom sheyotza misham, because the people in your hometown, they're not machmer in account of them holding that it's treif.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
They just don't have a Kabbalah in either direction.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
So the guy who's traveling can rely on the Kabbalah in the place that he's vacationing, and the only thing that prevents him from eating it back home is that they have a minute not to eat it.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
And we pass in this in Yardeah, Simmon, Pei Beis.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
So the entire din that's discussed in Pesach and Dafnun about keeping the chumras, is only if the chachamim in that makom actively decided to be machmir for some reason.
JulesPANELIST
But, you know.
JulesPANELIST
writes a lot on masonry and Christian mysticism, Jewish mysticism.
JulesPANELIST
I mean, you know, so the Kabbalah is, you know, you find it here and there.
JulesPANELIST
And then we had Jen come on.
Etan SchnallHOST
So if the shofar is given that name, and we are focused much more on the function, but on its form, then clearly its form The way it looks, its appearance, is something so important for understanding what the Shofar represents.
Etan SchnallHOST
How are we to understand this? Several hundred years ago, in the city of Tsvas, where the great Kabbalists live, around the time of the Arizal, Reb Chaim Vital recorded the following story that happened to one of the elder Rabbanim in the city, Rav Moshe Arshach, a name very familiar, because he was one of the great commentaries on Tanakh, and also because he was one of the greatest of his generation, and of many generations.
Etan SchnallHOST
The Arshach was one of the select few chosen to receive Smicha, together with Yosef Karo, the author of Shachan Aruch.
Etan SchnallHOST
Living at the time of the Arizal, these were amongst the greatest sages of all time.
Gedale FensterGUEST
My pleasure, my pleasure.
Benji LevyHOST
What is Jewish mysticism?
Gedale FensterGUEST
Jewish mysticism is, I believe it's the Kabbalah.
Gedale FensterGUEST
It's the hiddenness behind everything.
Gedale FensterGUEST
Realizing there's much more behind everything that you're going through.
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Gedale FensterGUEST
Yeah, because once you start, you're in decision fatigue.
Gedale FensterGUEST
It's really fear-based, and fear takes 50% of your energy away.
Benji LevyHOST
So what differentiates Jewish mysticism from other forms of mysticism?