Kabbalah On Witchcraft

It's be good to have a stenographer to copy what he says! I'm from the South and hearing isn't as acute. Reply

I just do not understand... Reply

Sorry if my words were kind of rough. But it's like when someone tells you a great story it gets really exciting and stops right before the ending. now I have to know kind of thing. If this is how you make people hungry for Torah rabbi I'm starving for the way you teach it. cheers.
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If they don't have power over you if you don't let them & the mizvot gives one a certain degree of protection (due to its purifying effects probably) then it would logically follow according to the statements and colleated data you have explicated that one would have enough spiritual force to eject them in the name of Hashem or create a sort of purity force field ?

As a motivating factor, when Nebuchadnezzar took all the smartest Jews from Jerusalem those that were left behind were worshipping idols in the absence of the intellectual leadership of Israel highlighting the importance of rabbi to elaborate on spiritual matters especially those that might be options in the absence of your help. Today there are Jews in the middle east where the intellectual leadership may not be so mobile and those Jews can be saved from receding into spiritual darkness, cultural impoverishment and assimilation.If you catch yourself saying you don't know several times maybe you should its a mivzot. :) Reply

So someone can depossess themselves by putting one's foot down?

And what is that process of cleansing called? Reply

Kabbalah on Witchcraft Thank you for this, Rabbi Kaplan. It is a wonderful teaching. There are some aspects that have happened and have more power than you suggest here, but I loved the story of the exorcism. I sought this lecture out because I was worried about something, and this has calmed me down considerably. Reply

Question How did Kabbalah become connected with the occult? It is used a lot within mysticism and the occult, so how did that develop? Reply

Blessings and Curses Rabbi,
Balak wanted Balaam to curse, and I think King David was cursed. We can command out the evil entity in the name of Hashem, how do remove a curse? Same way? Reply

Knowing I have loved HaShem and His Torah since my earliest memories as child--but I am no Tzadik. I've failed miserably at times. So does this mean I am defiled? I have felt things--sensed both benign and malevolent energies for as long as I remember. I have, since toddler-hood been told I have a way with animals. I can 'feel' them--like strong empathy--sense their needs. I don't know how to describe it. At age 7, Ema left me to run an errand. I heard no crash, only the cries of others inside (I was outside getting a soda) & I instantly knew my mother had been in a car accident. I didn't see it, I just 'knew' the details. This 'knowing' has happened to me many times in my life without warning or inviting it. Always it is for trouble, never happy. Then to there are the dreams that come true within a matter of moments to months. (Most are of disaster, some have been for good--others seemed trivial.) I avoid crowds because I feel others. So am I cursed? What should I do about this? Reply

did curiosity kill the cat? I nearly left my room in horror and spent the rest of the night in my car when I heard this lecture in the wee hours of the morning.

I live in a former tuberculosis treatment center that has since been converted into mixed residential / hotel use. Never in my stay have I gotten so frightened to live here... the mention of possession, those things that do not translate into English., ghosts, spirits... yikes.

Who stayed in my room....?

But you gave a logical explanation to the naïve souls who seek answers in the occult. Reply

Combating Negative Spirits From a non-catholic christian perspecitve, as the Rabbi encourages, live a holy/righteous lifestyle.

When you somehow sense evil, verbally cry out to the Lord, and He will rescue you (Psalm 91). Also, just as the Rabbi did, cast/command out the evil entity in the name of Hashem, or by the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. Reply

kaballa on witchcraft Rabbi Kaplan's comment on the gevurah/chesed aspects of spiritual reality adds more depth to my study of Bereshit, chapter 1. Reply

Kabballa on witchcraft I was listening to this talk, I found it rich in wisdom. Reply

Congrats! Please upload more on this rabbi. He speaks slowly and clear. For me that is very important because my English is not so good as I would want. Reply