This powerful lecture will lay bare some incredible Kabbalah insights, and give you a sharp new perspective on this fundamental and well-known mitzvah that seems to be so shrouded in mystery!
Kabbalah on Circumcision
A piercing look into the “brit,” our oldest observance!
Rabbi Mendel Kaplan is the founder and spiritual leader of Chabad @ Flamingo in Thornhill, Ontario, he also serves as a Chaplain of the York Regional Police Service
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November 28, 2011
Circumcision Practises in some culture
At the moment I am still downloading and still yet to listen to this audio lecture and I am sure of it this is gonna be a great one. Of what I have been raised many cultures practise circumcision for some reason mostly out of hygiene. And for some a religious requirement or something like that. As what I understood in the Tanakh it is a definite part of returning to G-D. Just months ago I read an article that somewhere in the U.S.A. there is a law that is to be passed on banning this practise completely. Is there truth in this?. That would be a shame if it is true.
Mr. arturo amparado
November 3, 2011
Question
If Jewish women do not need a circumcision because they are already more spiritual than men, what is it that separates them from non-jewsih women or are all women more spiritual, Jewish or not?
Julie Durham, UK
October 28, 2009
Berith-Milah.
Ahhhh......To all the people reading this comment. As I was reading the comment of this anonymous posting from Israel; I do place myself in the same situation that this brothers are going through. I myself feel; incomplete, kind of lost i might add. The feeling of not been here; not there. I am a Jew, but I'm not since i never got a brith (bris) nor a Bar-Mitzvah. This covenants are so meaningful to me as a Jew, and at my age of 58 years; it is embarrassing to me about this subject; particularly when, in the few times that I have immerse my body in the mikvah; with the intention of cleansing -it from my worldly sins. I could feel the eyes of the men; looking at me, and all i could do was to look down, and feel very uncomfortable about it, an overwhelming feeling invaded my soul, a feeling of no belonging or been worthy of this blessing. I do hope that one day in the near future; I will be able to look back, and be so thankful to G--d for the blessings he has giving me to feel comple.
Germano Riviera "Levy" Brooklyn, New York
April 12, 2009
My parents didn't give myself or brothers a bris. I had one a few years ago and am learning here to help my brothers.
Great lecture and though online, felt interactive.
Durham, UK
Brooklyn, New York
Great lecture and though online, felt interactive.
Israel
Orem, Utah
Fuengirola, Spainn