Oct. 22, 2024 - Brother Nathanael
05:40
| 
| Time | Text |
|---|---|
| Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Salaam Alaikum. | |
| Alaikum Salaam. | |
| Okay, got to get this centered. | |
| Oh! | |
| I'm your number one. | |
| I grew up in the synagogue, Shabbos school, Hebrew school. | |
| When the Israelis wanted to make that shalom and all that gooky stuff. | |
| Now they murder people. | |
| ...with the Lubavitchers. | |
| There was no Chabad house then. | |
| ...means the pious ones. | |
| That's the top level of Judaism. | |
| And they're looked upon by all Jews as the Sanhedrin of all things Jewish. | |
| I studied with Shalom Posner, who was a close friend of the Rebbe, Menachem Schneerson, who later was hailed as Moshiach. | |
| But he kicked the bucket. | |
| He died. | |
| They waited him to rise from the dead. | |
| He didn't. | |
| Then they had to figure out who would be the Moshiach. | |
| They said, well, maybe he'll rise from the dead in a year from now. | |
| I think he died 12 years ago. | |
| He hasn't gotten up. | |
| He's rotting away. | |
| All right, so let me talk about the secrets of Kabbalah. | |
| We studied Kabbalah a little bit in Shabbos school. | |
| It was mostly emphasized on Tanakh, which means the Old Testament, Torah, Nebim, Prophets, Ketuvim, the poetry. | |
| But we did study a little bit of the Zohar, which is one of the books of Kabbalah. | |
| I'll get into it more. | |
| And the other one we studied was Portions of Talmud, but we had to read it in Aramaic. | |
| Which is the language it was written in, in Babylon. | |
| Then when I studied with the Lubavitchers, the main really Hasidic group today, there's three main ones. | |
| The Lubavitchers, the Satmaras group out of Austria-Hungary. | |
| The Lubavitchers are more Russian, Ukraine. | |
| And the other one is Reslav. | |
| Those are the three main chassidim. | |
| And they're dynasties, where it's handed down from the first leader, Baal Shem Tov, Rabbi Nachman, the Lubavitchers, and it's handed down, hierarchical and as a dynasty. | |
| Alright, so I did study Kabbalah with Shalom Posner, but I'll get into it more. | |
| How you study Kabbalah and when you're considered ready to study Kabbalah. | |
| The basic tenets, so to speak, of Kabbalah. | |
| But to go into it deeply, I was really forbidden. | |
| Not because of anything about me personally, but because you have to be an expert in Talmud first, okay? | |
| Madonna, who popularized this thing, the chassi just laughed at it. | |
| It was just a moneymaker by secular Jews, but it failed. | |
| They went bankrupt. | |
| All right, let me get to my notes here. | |
| And I have Rockwell here to help me. | |
| And there's some gefilte fish in there. | |
| He doesn't eat gefilte fish. | |
| Secrets of the Kabbalah. | |
| I put this together within 15 minutes from what I was taught by the rabbis of the Lubavitchers. | |
| And it's really the Kabbalah that fuels Judaism as we know it today. | |
| Now, Kabbalah comes from the root word K-A-B-A-L, not C-A-B. K-A-B-A-L, which means to receive. | |
| So Kabbalah means that which is, more of a paraphrase, it means that which is received. | |
| But only the Rebbis receive it, you see. | |
| Only the Rebbis. | |
| That is the top of the rabbinic Gepiltapish chain. | |
| Now, the rabbinic authority, let me scroll down here, which replaced the Levitical priestly authority. | |
| Okay, let me scroll down. | |
| I've got to figure out how to do this. | |
| The rabbinic authority which replaced the priestly authority. |
Export Selection