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70: Spirituality & Godliness | 'The Millennial Rabbi' Daniel Bortz
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Show Notes
Background
Main reason he connected back to religion and God was through spiritual experiences
Take the things he enjoyed and elevate it to a Godly experience
How the spiritual experiences guided him to a religious observance?
Difference between Spirituality and Godliness/Holiness
How do I take the feeling and permeate the physical with it
How is sitting on a mountain top meditating all day any different than sitting and studying Torah all day?
In all your ways know God — Baal Shemtov
Running & Returning
📘 Beneath the Surface
He would write a short blog about a discourse he learned
Finding the soul behind every thing and every one
Soul Living Immersive Course: meditation and transformational sensory experience. Through the program, Soul Living, Rabbi helps clients overcome stress and anxiety through accessing their soul’s greatness.
At the IBJJF Pan Ams Jiu Jitsu Tournament
Torah learning helps you develop penetrating analysis
Chochmah (Wisdom), Bina (comprehension), and Da'at (knowledge)
How can we making Judaism Experiential?
How is the way Judaism is being taught making a resurgence compared to the strict, rigid ways it was taught - or the way in which it was presented in how it was taught - before?
incorporating mindfulness and meditation into rituals and services
An experience not a to-do list
Mitzvahs are portals, opportunities of connection
when we talk about a mitzvah, something God asks of us, you can have the most spirituality in the world... And we believe it doesn't get you as high as doing a simple mitzvah that God asks - even eating matzah on passover with zero intention.
Levitating is a finite being going to the peak of their ability, while eating matzah is considered doing an infinite act. The ideal is to merge the two - like wings on a bird.
The word for reasoning is Ta'am which also means taste. If you understand what you're doing it gives you taste.
Religion as a Relationship
Expanded consciousness & Constricted consciousness — Baal Shemtov
Make sure to keep even a point of expanded consciousness even within constricted consciousness — the fire and wonder
Divine You Virtual Retreat
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