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[Gil]

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[mrc s]

Is the 22 paths lesser than the sefirot?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey mrc, I’m not understanding the question here.

[Brad]

Did judaism replace kabbalah?

[Brad]

I know in a way it did, but i wanted to see how you explain it. I always hear people saying christianity or messianic judaism replaced judaism they call it replacement theology, but little do they know, judaism replaced kabbalah …

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[Chris – KabU Instructor]

It certainly became the more dominant ideology.

[mrc s]

aside from choosing our environment do we have free will to choose what to think and feel and move our body?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

This is where the “perception” of choice exists but not free choice itself.

• This reply was modified 9 months, 3 weeks ago by Chris - KabU Instructor.

[mrc s]

Free choice of choosing the right environments seem big enough area to choose, in what we are not free?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

We think we’re “choosing” when we look at the items on the menu at a restaurant, this gives us the perception of choice. That’s just a metaphor of course. Choosing the environment gives us which restaurants to choose and which items on the menu are available.

[Brad]

I asked this last week but i don’t think it was answered, rather i got an explanation of what the two mean. Q- Does being biologically  born a Jew have any advantage over being Born a Non Jew?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Ah ok, I misunderstood then. The answer then would be no if you’re asking in relation to spiritual advancement since “Jew” only refers to this aspect of a person according to Kabbalah, and not who their mother was.

[Brad]

Is the nefesh the point in the heart? Because that is also translated as soul.

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Neshama is translated as soul in the sense you’re asking about. Nefesh is more of like…”life force” and not the eternal part of a person, the “soul” which is Neshama.

[Brad]

So nefesh is when we are like the same level as animal ? It can’t be referring to “The Soul” because animals don’t reincarnate and can’t have equivalence of form with the creator?

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