Ebb and Flow, like the chassidic concept of Ratzo V’Shuv (running and returning), aims to provide you with the principles and practices, wisdom and willpower, insights and inspiration, and empowerment to access your higher vision, internalize it, and express it to the world. This podcast integrates Holistic Wellness and Hasidic Jewish Wisdom, so we can each thrive in body, mind, and soul. Each episode, each guest, and each story is another key to express this truth, as well as to open our eyes to the revealed goodness in the world.
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Ebb and Flow, like the chassidic concept of Ratzo V’Shuv (running and returning), aims to provide you with the principles and practices, wisdom and willpower, insights and inspiration, and empowerment to access your higher vision, internalize it, and express it to the world. This podcast integrates Holistic Wellness and Hasidic Jewish Wisdom, so we can each thrive in body, mind, and soul. Each episode, each guest, and each story is another key to express this truth, as well as to open our eyes to the revealed goodness in the world.
98: Journey to Oneness: Merging Torah, Chassidus, and New-Age Spiritual Teachings | Moshe Gersht
Ebb and Flow with Solomon Ezra
56 minutes 24 seconds
1 year ago
98: Journey to Oneness: Merging Torah, Chassidus, and New-Age Spiritual Teachings | Moshe Gersht
Topics of Discussion
Background and what led to where he is now
Religious Growth and affiliation, Chabad
Learning Torah but far from Truth
Learning Chassidus and going to therapy
Finding the right therapist
Jewish Chassidic teachings and New-age Spiritual thought leaders
Day job Torah, side hustle Spiritual self-help
When he knew it was time to do more than studying in yeshiva
Letting go of fear
Do all spiritual paths lead to the same end-goal?
Does it mean I can choose a different place and get to the same place? As far as spirit is concerned, G-d is found in all places. So everywhere is the path to G-d.
Torah is not about this is the only way to find an enlightened perspective because it can be found in many places.
What is the uniqueness of Torah?
Judaism begins where Buddhism leaves off
Believing in the Mount Sinai experience of receiving the Torah
Other practices may have some filter keeping someone from the Unified Truth - Ohr Ein Sof
His deepest spiritual experiences were in Torah
The Oneness is available to everyone and for everyone
If you’re looking for relaxation or co-create and manifest things there are modalities. But if you’re looking to return to Self, that’s the placeless
The goal of all is to reach Source consciousness and then internalize it and reflect It in this world
The path to G-d is for everybody, but Torah is not necessarily for everybody
“Your incarnation is the blueprint for your liberation” - Ram Das.
Why Ram Das didn’t find enlightenment in Judaism. He said no one put Kabbalah and Chassidus in front of him
You don’t need to look somewhere else to find the enlightenment space
Your life is not a mistake. Everything that led to where you are now is for a higher purpose
The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s push for mivtzoim (helping a fellow Jew with Mitzvahs). Putting on tefillin is water for your thirsty soul
One mitzvah. One thing at a time.
The Hebrew month of Elul and Tishrei
"It’s all the same to Me"
"The Three Conditions"
G-d is not found in the noise
If you really want to know G-d you have to come to know yourself. How? Do one of three things: meditate, get outside of a world-view of taking and give instead, change your priority of doing to just being - quiet, service, being
Ebb and Flow with Solomon Ezra
Ebb and Flow, like the chassidic concept of Ratzo V’Shuv (running and returning), aims to provide you with the principles and practices, wisdom and willpower, insights and inspiration, and empowerment to access your higher vision, internalize it, and express it to the world. This podcast integrates Holistic Wellness and Hasidic Jewish Wisdom, so we can each thrive in body, mind, and soul. Each episode, each guest, and each story is another key to express this truth, as well as to open our eyes to the revealed goodness in the world.
