70: Spirituality & Godliness | 'The Millennial Rabbi' Daniel Bortz

Ebb and Flow with Solomon Ezra

Show Notes

Background

Main reason he connected back to religion and God was through spiritual experiences

Take the things he enjoyed and elevate it to a Godly experience

How the spiritual experiences guided him to a religious observance?

Difference between Spirituality and Godliness/Holiness

How do I take the feeling and permeate the physical with it

How is sitting on a mountain top meditating all day any different than sitting and studying Torah all day?

In all your ways know God — Baal Shemtov

Running & Returning

📘 Beneath the Surface

He would write a short blog about a discourse he learned

Finding the soul behind every thing and every one

Soul Living Immersive Course: meditation and transformational sensory experience. Through the program, Soul Living, Rabbi helps clients overcome stress and anxiety through accessing their soul’s greatness.

At the IBJJF Pan Ams Jiu Jitsu Tournament

Torah learning helps you develop penetrating analysis

Chochmah (Wisdom), Bina (comprehension), and Da'at (knowledge)

How can we making Judaism Experiential?

How is the way Judaism is being taught making a resurgence compared to the strict, rigid ways it was taught - or the way in which it was presented in how it was taught - before?

incorporating mindfulness and meditation into rituals and services

An experience not a to-do list

Mitzvahs are portals, opportunities of connection

when we talk about a mitzvah, something God asks of us, you can have the most spirituality in the world... And we believe it doesn't get you as high as doing a simple mitzvah that God asks - even eating matzah on passover with zero intention.

Levitating is a finite being going to the peak of their ability, while eating matzah is considered doing an infinite act. The ideal is to merge the two - like wings on a bird.

The word for reasoning is Ta'am which also means taste. If you understand what you're doing it gives you taste.

Religion as a Relationship

Expanded consciousness & Constricted consciousness — Baal Shemtov

Make sure to keep even a point of expanded consciousness even within constricted consciousness — the fire and wonder

Divine You Virtual Retreat

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