Judaism vs. Hinduism
Summary
TLDRIn a surprising exploration of commonality, the relationship between Judaism and Hinduism reveals unexpected parallels despite their apparent theological differences. Judaism, being strictly monotheistic, contrasts with the seemingly polytheistic Hinduism. However, both religions share a belief in a unified source, with Hinduism's Brahman paralleling Jewish mystical concepts of oneness. Historically, some propose a link via Abraham and his descendants spreading monotheistic ideas to the East, possibly influencing Hindu beliefs. Both traditions are among the world's most ancient, with sacred texts that incorporate divine teachings and oral traditions, seen in the Torah and the Vedas respectively. Practices like reincarnation are central to both, with Judaism's mystical tradition emphasizing the cycle of the soul akin to Hindu beliefs in rebirth. Furthermore, concepts of purity through elements like water in Judaism and the sacred Ganges in Hinduism show spiritual overlaps. Mysticism thrives in both religions, sharing practices like meditation, numerology, and spiritual purification. The parallels extend culturally and historically, with instances of Jewish communities in India and shared rituals. Despite their geographical and cultural distance, Judaism and Hinduism illustrate a deep, intertwined spirituality, offering insights into universal religious ideas.
Takeaways
- 📜 Judaism and Hinduism both have ancient sacred texts—the Torah and the Vedas.
- 🙏 Despite differences, both religions explore the concept of a unifying source or oneness.
- 🔄 Reincarnation is a significant belief system in both traditions, illustrating life cycles.
- 🐄 Both view cows as holy; in Hinduism as sacred, and in Judaism for purification rites.
- 💧 Purifying practices are prominent: water in Judaism (mikvah) and rivers in Hinduism (Ganges).
- 🔮 Mystical traditions are rich in both, with practices in meditation and esotericism.
- 🧘♂️ Spiritual practices like meditation show cross-cultural influences in both faiths.
- 🎨 Numerology and mysticism involving numbers are shared interests.
- 📚 Both have dual structures of divine written texts and oral traditions.
- 🌍 Historical connections suggest Jewish influence in ancient India through Abraham's descendants.
Timeline
- 00:00:00 - 00:05:00
The speaker introduces the topic of exploring the relationship between Judaism and Hinduism, which at first glance, seem to be completely unrelated due to their geographical and philosophical differences. However, the speaker suggests that both religions have surprising similarities that are worth exploring. The most striking difference highlighted is their view on divinity: Judaism's strict monotheism compared to Hinduism's apparent polytheism. Despite this, the speaker notes that Hinduism believes in a singular source, Brahman, which parallels concepts in Jewish mysticism.
- 00:05:00 - 00:10:00
The discussion delves deeper into Hinduism's concept of Brahman and the caste system, drawing parallels between Hindu Brahmins and the ancient Israelite priestly caste system. While Judaism had a kind of caste system with priests at the top, a significant difference is noted in that Hindu society includes 'Untouchables,' which had no direct equivalent in ancient Israelite society. The narrative then ties these insights into a biblical narrative involving Abraham's descendants, suggesting a potential historical link between Abraham and India, citing similarities in names and possible migrations eastward.
- 00:10:00 - 00:15:00
The speaker highlights a tale from Jewish tradition suggesting Abraham may have sent his other children eastward (to India) with spiritual wisdom, potentially planting religious ideas that influenced Hindu beliefs. This narrative proposes that Jews might see a historical root in Hinduism's Brahman concept, linking it to Abraham. The conversation also draws attention to the way both Judaism and Hinduism have numerous holidays, sharing cultural customs such as meditation and spiritual disciplines, reinforcing the connection on a cultural level.
- 00:15:00 - 00:20:00
Further similarities discussed include ancient texts treasured in both religions. For example, Hindu Vedas are parallel to the Jewish Torah, both being ancient, revered texts, though differing in structure and age. Both religions are seen as integrating sacrificial traditions in antiquity. Hinduism's reverence for cows and purification rituals are compared with the Jewish ritual of the Red Heifer, showing deep-seated cultural echoes. The purification role of waterways in both cultural contexts is also noted.
- 00:20:00 - 00:25:00
A significant similarity is noted in the dual structure of written and oral traditions in both religions, with Hinduism's 'Shruti' and 'Smriti' aligning with the Jewish Written and Oral Torah. Mystical traditions in both are also paralleled, with rebirth or reincarnation as a significant philosophical and spiritual theme. The speaker emphasizes the centrality of reincarnation in Jewish mysticism despite past opposition, linking it to similar Hindu beliefs.
- 00:25:00 - 00:30:00
The discussion about reincarnation expands into Jewish mystical texts, revealing extensive teachings about reincarnation akin to Hindu doctrines. The speaker points out historical Jewish skepticism towards reincarnation, noting it was later embraced by influential Jewish mystics. This exploration uncovers cultural exchanges and how ideas might have traversed between these ancient worlds, showing reincarnation's embeddedness in Judaism, contrary to contemporary assumptions of foreign influence.
- 00:30:00 - 00:35:00
Parallels between Hindu and Jewish meditative practices are illustrated through sacred sounds and numerology, with insights into Hebrew mystical traditions and names of God. For instance, the Hindu 'OM' is intriguingly one of the sacred names in Jewish mysticism, demonstrating shared spiritual archetypes. This reveals a historical sharing of philosophical and mystical ideas, hinting at deeper undercurrents of shared human experience.
- 00:35:00 - 00:40:00
Highlighting the shared legacy of numerology and sacred mathematics, the text notes how crucial mathematical concepts, like the zero, spread from Hindu to Jewish cultural matrices, and through Jewish intermediaries, to the broader Western context. Names of God, numerology, and the formative influence on Western numerical frameworks underline Judaism’s intellectual bridging role.
- 00:40:00 - 00:45:00
Both religions’ approaches to spirituality are further compared through the lens of yoga’s chakras and Jewish aspects like the Seferot. Here, deep structural parallels are noted, as both systems map spiritual realities onto the human form and consciousness, indicating a shared archetypal framework for understanding divine interaction with the world.
- 00:45:00 - 00:50:00
Historical intersections are addressed, where Jewish influence possibly reached as far as India through lost tribes and notable exchanges between religious figures. This is evidenced by figures such as Rabbi Yehuda the Hindu in Talmudic literature, implying intriguing cross-cultural exchanges and migrations that may have affected religious developments in both regions.
- 00:50:00 - 00:55:00
The narrative moves towards contemporary times, noting how modern Jewish and Indian histories have intertwined—highlighted by the synchronized independence from British rule and shared political struggles. This historical symmetry suggests enduring linkages and collaborative potential between the two now sovereign nations.
- 00:55:00 - 01:01:44
Finally, the allure of Eastern philosophy for modern Jews is discussed, noting trends toward seeking spiritual knowledge in Hinduism and Buddhism. The conclusion urges a return to Jewish mysticism, asserting that all mystical insights sought elsewhere are inherently present within Jewish traditions, which are direct continuations of the ancient monotheistic teachings from their common patriarch, Abraham.
Mind Map
Video Q&A
What are the major differences between Judaism and Hinduism?
Judaism is strictly monotheistic, while Hinduism appears polytheistic. However, both believe in a unifying source.
How are Judaism and Hinduism similar?
Both religions have ancient roots, a structure of sacred texts, spiritual purity practices, and rich mystical traditions.
What is Brahman in Hinduism?
Brahman is the ultimate oneness or source in Hinduism, from which everything emerges.
What is the connection between Abraham and Hinduism?
Some propose that Abraham's descendants spread monotheistic teachings to the East, influencing Hindu beliefs.
Do Judaism and Hinduism have similar structures in their scriptures?
Yes, both have a concept of divine texts and oral traditions, providing a foundational religious structure.
What mystical similarities exist between the two religions?
Both have connections to esoteric practices, like meditation and numerology, and a focus on spiritual purity.
How do Judaism and Hinduism view reincarnation?
Reincarnation is a significant concept in both, with beliefs in the cycle of life and the soul's evolution.
What is the significance of the cow in both religions?
Cows hold purifying significance; in Hinduism they are sacred, while in Judaism the red heifer is crucial for purification.
What role does numerology play in these religions?
Numerology and mystical meanings of numbers hold importance in both traditions, often overlapping in spiritual texts.
Are there any historical linkages between the two?
Yes, historically, there are examples of Jewish influence in India and proposed connections through ancient lineage.
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- 00:00:00we discussed before the relationship
- 00:00:03between Judaism and Christianity and
- 00:00:05then we did Judaism and Islam and now we
- 00:00:08want to do the next kind of major
- 00:00:10religion which is Hinduism so I want to
- 00:00:13look at the relationship between Judaism
- 00:00:15and
- 00:00:16Hinduism and what's surprising about
- 00:00:19this is that Judaism and Hinduism it
- 00:00:21seems like they should have nothing in
- 00:00:23common they're completely unrelated from
- 00:00:26totally different worlds but actually we
- 00:00:28find it's really surprising ing that
- 00:00:30they have a lot in common and you
- 00:00:32wouldn't think that so Judaism and
- 00:00:34Christianity okay makes sense
- 00:00:35Christianity Islam Judaism they're all
- 00:00:37part of the same tradition Abraham and
- 00:00:39Moses and and David part of that that
- 00:00:42same abrahamic Faith but then Hinduism
- 00:00:45what does that have to do with anything
- 00:00:47it's like on the other side of the world
- 00:00:48far away so you would think that there's
- 00:00:50nothing in common but actually there's a
- 00:00:52lot in common and we want to explore why
- 00:00:54and it's actually connected to you'll
- 00:00:56see why I want to talk about it this
- 00:00:58week cuz it's related to this week's
- 00:00:59part
- 00:01:00also so before we get into all these
- 00:01:03similarities between Judaism and
- 00:01:05Hinduism we have to of course say the
- 00:01:07big the the major point which is of
- 00:01:10course there is a huge difference
- 00:01:12between Judaism and Hinduism what is the
- 00:01:14most striking difference between the
- 00:01:19two that's right so Judaism of course is
- 00:01:21very strictly monotheistic right Judaism
- 00:01:24is all about the fact that there's one
- 00:01:26God right we say multiple times a day
- 00:01:28that there's only one God and God is one
- 00:01:31and Hinduism is quite the opposite
- 00:01:33because it's seemingly very polytheistic
- 00:01:35there's a lot of Idols a lot of
- 00:01:37different gods this one and that one so
- 00:01:39you would think that that's an
- 00:01:41irreconcilable difference that there's
- 00:01:43nothing you can't in any way put Judaism
- 00:01:45and Hinduism together because Hinduism
- 00:01:47is so very polytheistic and Judaism is
- 00:01:50so very
- 00:01:51monotheistic so how could they really
- 00:01:53have anything in common for in Jewish
- 00:01:56definitions uh Hinduism would be for
- 00:01:58sure aod right total
- 00:02:01idolatry however however having said
- 00:02:04that Hindus do have this idea that
- 00:02:08ultimately everything comes from one
- 00:02:11source so even Hindus believe that there
- 00:02:15is one cause to everything that there is
- 00:02:17one source to everything and that there
- 00:02:19is kind of one godhead from which all
- 00:02:22the other supposed Gods emerge and what
- 00:02:25is that one source called that first
- 00:02:28cause the one sour the everything the
- 00:02:29Eternal the Oneness does anybody know
- 00:02:32what it's called Brahman right Brahman
- 00:02:35is the Hindu term for that Oneness for
- 00:02:39the unity that is that that binds
- 00:02:42together the whole universe so it's kind
- 00:02:44of similar to the the more cabalistic
- 00:02:47notion of the a s right that God is the
- 00:02:50the Eternal infinite God that binds all
- 00:02:53things that we're all really just one
- 00:02:56and there's this illusion that we are
- 00:02:58not one but really everything is United
- 00:03:01everything is one when we say really
- 00:03:03means that everything is one you and God
- 00:03:06and the cosmos were're all part of one
- 00:03:08force it's all one Cosmos so that idea
- 00:03:11does exist in Hinduism and it's called
- 00:03:13Brahman Brahman is the Oneness from
- 00:03:16which everything emerges and the Hindu
- 00:03:20priests right Hinduism has a cast system
- 00:03:23Hindu Society has a cast system and at
- 00:03:25the top of the cast who are at the top
- 00:03:28of the cast there the priests who are
- 00:03:30called the brahmans right so you have
- 00:03:32Brahman who's like the one let's say God
- 00:03:35behind everything else the one force
- 00:03:37behind all other forces and the priests
- 00:03:40at the very top of Hindu Society are the
- 00:03:43brahmins so it's interesting as well
- 00:03:45that's the first parallel that you have
- 00:03:46CU Jewish Society ancient Israelite
- 00:03:50Society had something like a cast system
- 00:03:52where you had also three major
- 00:03:54categories uh the Kim the priests who
- 00:03:57were at kind of at the top and then and
- 00:04:00the leim but who are somewhat beneath
- 00:04:02them the leim who are like the support
- 00:04:04for the Kim and who are more like the
- 00:04:06teachers and another spiritual cast and
- 00:04:09then everybody else isra you had is and
- 00:04:14Hindu Society is arranged somewhat
- 00:04:16similarly where you have the priests and
- 00:04:18then you know different the ruling class
- 00:04:20and The Artisans and the merchants and
- 00:04:22the laborers and then the Hindus of
- 00:04:24course also have the Untouchables right
- 00:04:26like the very bottom of society that are
- 00:04:29like second class citizens we never had
- 00:04:31anything like that like ancient
- 00:04:33Israelite Society didn't have that but
- 00:04:34they had they did have something similar
- 00:04:36which is people who were kind of
- 00:04:37excluded from the community who were
- 00:04:39those
- 00:04:40people lepers lepers might be also M
- 00:04:45right A M was not allowed to marry into
- 00:04:47the community so they were kind of kept
- 00:04:49aside so there were certain people that
- 00:04:51the Torah says that were some in some
- 00:04:53ways excluded from society but other
- 00:04:56than them the Kim are more spiritual
- 00:04:58they are the Priestly class and you
- 00:04:59couldn't just be a priest if you wanted
- 00:05:02to if you're not a Coen then you you're
- 00:05:03not you can't be a priest and so Hindu
- 00:05:06Society is somewhat similar where you
- 00:05:08have like The Untouchables at the bottom
- 00:05:10you have the brahin at the top who are
- 00:05:11the priests now the big question is what
- 00:05:13does it mean to be a brah what is
- 00:05:14Brahman what does this word mean what
- 00:05:16does Brahman mean anybody know what it
- 00:05:18means where does it come from it's a
- 00:05:21trick question because nobody actually
- 00:05:22knows where it comes from there's no if
- 00:05:25you look up the atmology of Brahma
- 00:05:26nobody it's a mystery word nobody knows
- 00:05:28where it comes from
- 00:05:30and this is where some people have
- 00:05:31proposed that Brahman sounds very
- 00:05:34similar to Abraham right and the brahin
- 00:05:38it sounds like they are the Disciples of
- 00:05:40Abraham so what's the con how is
- 00:05:43possible how did we go from India to
- 00:05:45Abraham what's the connection Abraham
- 00:05:47had other children right and that's
- 00:05:50where we come to this week's para says
- 00:05:52that he gave
- 00:05:53them exactly so let's read what it says
- 00:05:56in this week's para that we're going to
- 00:05:58read it says has it tells us about the
- 00:06:01last bit of Abraham's life after his
- 00:06:05wife Sarah passed away what happened to
- 00:06:09him and abah remarried he married a
- 00:06:13woman named and of course we know so
- 00:06:16yeah so according to one tradition K is
- 00:06:19the same person as Hagar so like Rashi
- 00:06:21says if you look look up Rashi on this
- 00:06:23verse that K is haar and the same what
- 00:06:26like kind of concubine he had before the
- 00:06:28mother of is
- 00:06:30and she was called because she was pure
- 00:06:33like the like the incense that they used
- 00:06:35to bring in the temple when he divorced
- 00:06:37her or whatever when he sent her away
- 00:06:39she wasn't with any other man and she
- 00:06:41didn't get remarried so she was always
- 00:06:42waiting for Abraham to take her back so
- 00:06:45she was called K that's one tradition a
- 00:06:46different another tradition says no
- 00:06:48they're not related two different people
- 00:06:50Hagar was Hagar she was expelled K is a
- 00:06:53different woman so he married and
- 00:06:56then and now he had all these other kids
- 00:06:59so everybody knows about and is but he
- 00:07:01had all these other kids afterwards so
- 00:07:03he had Z
- 00:07:06Yan ISB so it's important to mention
- 00:07:09that midan is also one of his kids and
- 00:07:13who came from
- 00:07:14midan came from midan and who
- 00:07:19else so Moshe No Moses married Moses's
- 00:07:22wife was Tora right Tora was from midan
- 00:07:25so when Moses married Tora he he was
- 00:07:28still marrying a very distant cousin cuz
- 00:07:31Moses is the Seventh Generation from
- 00:07:34Abraham and Abraham's son was midan from
- 00:07:37whom came Andora so when Moses married
- 00:07:41Tora she was not completely foreign she
- 00:07:43was actually a very distant
- 00:07:45cousin so because midan is also it's
- 00:07:48important to remember that midan is also
- 00:07:49a son of Abraham and
- 00:07:53then and then it says his grandchildren
- 00:07:55there
- 00:07:58was so it's just pointing out how
- 00:08:00Abraham was the forefather of many
- 00:08:02different peoples in the
- 00:08:05region and the sons of midan were a so
- 00:08:09that's another two of his grandsons and
- 00:08:11these are
- 00:08:13interesting because there was an ancient
- 00:08:16Greek writer called codeus who was
- 00:08:19quoted by Josephus codus said we
- 00:08:21mentioned this before that aine eff are
- 00:08:23the forefathers of they went to Africa
- 00:08:26and they settled in Africa and E is the
- 00:08:29origin of the term of Africa the whole
- 00:08:32continent Africa where does the name
- 00:08:34Africa comes from so according to
- 00:08:35cleodis it actually comes from a
- 00:08:37grandson from the grandsons of Abraham
- 00:08:39who settled there at some point they
- 00:08:42were called a f e okay and who we talked
- 00:08:45about before here's another so Abraham
- 00:08:48also had a grandchild named Kan who we
- 00:08:50talked about a month ago and
- 00:08:53a and then this is the interesting
- 00:08:57part so abah gave everything he had he
- 00:09:00left it to his whole inheritance the
- 00:09:03land everything was left
- 00:09:05to and to these other children that he
- 00:09:08had from the
- 00:09:12concubine he gave them gifts he just
- 00:09:15gave them other gifts
- 00:09:19and and he sent them away from because
- 00:09:22he didn't want there to be any dispute
- 00:09:24over who owns what it should be clear
- 00:09:26that the land of Israel belongs to
- 00:09:29that the whole inheritance belongs to so
- 00:09:32he sent all the other children
- 00:09:34away while he was still alive kedma he
- 00:09:37sent them kedma to the
- 00:09:41east so Abraham had all these other
- 00:09:43children and grandchildren and before he
- 00:09:46passed away he made sure to send them
- 00:09:47all away but he gave them matanot he
- 00:09:50gave them presents and if you look up
- 00:09:52the commentaries on what matanot means
- 00:09:54various different commentaries they all
- 00:09:56say more or less the same thing that he
- 00:09:58gave them various spirit spiritual
- 00:09:59presence not anything physical but he
- 00:10:01gave them spiritual presence spiritual
- 00:10:03wisdom different ideas as to what
- 00:10:06exactly he taught them uh some even say
- 00:10:08that he taught them the names of various
- 00:10:10Idols to be aware of and or he taught
- 00:10:13them some black magic or he taught them
- 00:10:15various spiritual forces that would
- 00:10:17protect them so he taught them something
- 00:10:20spiritual in any case they were his
- 00:10:22children his grandchildren and we can
- 00:10:24assume they were his disciples and he
- 00:10:26sent them far to the east okay and how
- 00:10:28far east
- 00:10:29doesn't say but the furthest East in
- 00:10:32tanak what is the furthest East
- 00:10:34mentioned in
- 00:10:36tanak we read in when in the tan wants
- 00:10:41to describe the vastness of the Persian
- 00:10:43Empire of it says miodu K Kush is Africa
- 00:10:48so from Africa in the west to hodu in
- 00:10:51the East so the extent of the Tan's you
- 00:10:54know knowledge or at least explicit
- 00:10:56knowledge of the world that it tells us
- 00:10:57is from Kush from Africa to hodu to
- 00:11:01India so he sent them Far East and the
- 00:11:04farthest east you can go in tanak is
- 00:11:07hodu so this is where there is this
- 00:11:09connection some have proposed that
- 00:11:11perhaps it was Abraham who sent his
- 00:11:14children grandchildren perhaps other
- 00:11:15disciples Far East to spread the word he
- 00:11:18was a monotheist he was teaching the
- 00:11:20world about this whole idea of one God
- 00:11:22and he sent his children grandchildren
- 00:11:25disciples to the Far East and they
- 00:11:27brought this knowledge of the god of
- 00:11:29Abraham to
- 00:11:30India and perhaps that's why they're
- 00:11:32called brahans and that their God is
- 00:11:34Brahman which is really the god of
- 00:11:36Abraham and hence the alliteration why
- 00:11:38the name sounds so similar between
- 00:11:40Abraham and Brahman that's the idea
- 00:11:43whether that's a historical fact or not
- 00:11:45we can't say but it does fit in neatly
- 00:11:48with the idea of Abraham being like the
- 00:11:51Torah says ofon that God promised to
- 00:11:54Abraham that you're going to be the
- 00:11:55forefather of many nations originally he
- 00:11:58was called a
- 00:11:59which means just of Aram that he was a
- 00:12:02father in this area of Aram and then he
- 00:12:04became God added a hay into his name he
- 00:12:07became Abraham because the he is hamong
- 00:12:10that he is the father of Many Many
- 00:12:12Nations so we typically think that means
- 00:12:14he's the spiritual father of Jews
- 00:12:17Christians and Muslims but also if you
- 00:12:20follow this idea also of of Hindus and
- 00:12:23if the whole Indian subcontinent uh
- 00:12:25would also be somehow spiritually
- 00:12:27descended from a from all his other
- 00:12:30children and grandchildren that went to
- 00:12:32the Far East so that's the setup so now
- 00:12:34the question is how exactly are Judaism
- 00:12:37and Hinduism similar what are some
- 00:12:39things that we have in
- 00:12:43common what's that yeah okay I'll get to
- 00:12:45that but like what in terms of
- 00:12:46practically what do we have in
- 00:12:50common it's true so actually some years
- 00:12:53ago I was reading a National Geographic
- 00:12:56and they did a survey of which religions
- 00:12:58have the most holiday
- 00:12:59and the two that came out at the front
- 00:13:01at the top were Hinduism and Judaism now
- 00:13:04National Geographic gave the title to
- 00:13:07Hinduism as being number one and Judaism
- 00:13:09as being number two however however they
- 00:13:12did not count rodes as a
- 00:13:15holiday and they didn't count Shabbat
- 00:13:17because the truth is for us Shabbat
- 00:13:20Shabbat is a big holiday right Shabbat
- 00:13:21is like the biggest holiday in many ways
- 00:13:23so like what we do for Shabbat is like
- 00:13:26you know what Christians do only twice a
- 00:13:28year on Christmas and Easter we do that
- 00:13:30every week you know you have the whole
- 00:13:31family and you shut off all the
- 00:13:32electronics and you pray and you go to
- 00:13:34the synagogue and you do all these
- 00:13:36rituals and pray but they didn't count
- 00:13:38National Geographic didn't countes and
- 00:13:40Shabbat so if you count those then we
- 00:13:42win by a a long shot but uh so one
- 00:13:46that's true we do have a lot of holidays
- 00:13:48in common Judaism and Hinduism because
- 00:13:49compared to that like Islam and
- 00:13:51Christianity have very little holidays
- 00:13:54they only really have like two major
- 00:13:55holidays each and maybe some other minor
- 00:13:57holidays but we all have like 30 plus
- 00:14:00days Jews and Hindus have at least 30
- 00:14:02days of holiday over the course of the
- 00:14:04Year depending on what what you count
- 00:14:06exactly as a holiday so that's that's a
- 00:14:08big one anything else any other ideas I
- 00:14:10think meditation is for sure meditation
- 00:14:13although that's true for a lot of
- 00:14:14religions but yeah like prayer
- 00:14:16meditation that's definitely true and
- 00:14:18I'll talk more about that later on so in
- 00:14:21terms of our very structure if you look
- 00:14:23at our religions first of all Judaism
- 00:14:24and Hinduism are kind of like the two
- 00:14:26most ancient religions in the world
- 00:14:28they're both at least 3,000 years old
- 00:14:31arguably 4,000 years old probably the
- 00:14:33two oldest religions continuous
- 00:14:35religions that that are still alive
- 00:14:37today some might add Zoroastrianism as
- 00:14:40well maybe those would be like the top
- 00:14:41three although Zoroastrianism is very
- 00:14:44small there's even less zoroastrians
- 00:14:46zoroastrians than Jews in the world but
- 00:14:48also an ancient religion so we're both
- 00:14:51very ancient and we have actually our
- 00:14:52history is really similar because Hindu
- 00:14:55religion starts with the most ancient
- 00:14:58Hindu text are called the vas the vas
- 00:15:01and they're probably around 3,000 years
- 00:15:03old and the VAS also they're arranged in
- 00:15:05four books so it's kind of like we have
- 00:15:07the the foundations of Judaism is the
- 00:15:09Kash the Torah of Moses we have five
- 00:15:12books of Moses which date back at least
- 00:15:143,000 years right three and a half
- 00:15:15thousand years something like that the
- 00:15:16vas are in the same there's four books
- 00:15:18of vas so instead of aash they have four
- 00:15:21instead of five they have four and they
- 00:15:22date back also to about 3 three and a
- 00:15:24half thousand years and just like the
- 00:15:26Kash or similar to the a lot of the vas
- 00:15:29are about sacrifices and they used to
- 00:15:31Hindus used to bring sacrifices so today
- 00:15:34Hindus for the most part are vegan or
- 00:15:36vegetarian they don't eat cow beef but
- 00:15:39they used to they used to bring actually
- 00:15:41cow sacrifices there was a time when
- 00:15:43they used to do that and eventually that
- 00:15:45was kind of outlawed and stopped being
- 00:15:47practiced again similar to Judaism where
- 00:15:49we used to have a very rich tradition
- 00:15:52many rituals of
- 00:15:54sacrifices and then when the second
- 00:15:55temple was destroyed 2,000 years ago
- 00:15:57sacrifices basically stopped and since
- 00:15:59then Judaism has no sacrifices and again
- 00:16:02that's similar to Hinduism which once
- 00:16:04actually had many sacrifices and stopped
- 00:16:06doing that for the most part although I
- 00:16:08saw that in Nepal they still have
- 00:16:09sacrifices and apparently they do like a
- 00:16:11massive Festival every 5 years where
- 00:16:14they slaughter like hundreds of
- 00:16:15thousands of animals so the core you
- 00:16:19know like the the core of Judaism is the
- 00:16:21Torah of Moses five books that go back
- 00:16:24you know some three and a half thousand
- 00:16:25years the core of Hinduism is a set of
- 00:16:27four books that go back three three and
- 00:16:30a half thousand years and also similar
- 00:16:32where they deal with a bunch of things
- 00:16:34laws history mixed with ritual mysticism
- 00:16:38sacrificial laws all that together so a
- 00:16:41lot in common and I'll quote a little
- 00:16:43bit from it later and you'll see how
- 00:16:44similar the wording is the sacrifices
- 00:16:47that we used to do and we don't do
- 00:16:49anymore and also Hindus consider the
- 00:16:51vdas to be divine and not human of human
- 00:16:55origin just like we say the Kash is
- 00:16:58divine and not of you although Moses
- 00:16:59wrote it he was just basically he was
- 00:17:02dictated by God and Moses wrote it
- 00:17:04what's a big thing for Hindus now that
- 00:17:06we're talking about sacrifices what's
- 00:17:08like H Hinduism famous for the holy cow
- 00:17:11right for Hindus the cow is a sacred
- 00:17:14animal and where do we see a parallel to
- 00:17:16that in Judaism
- 00:17:19oh close
- 00:17:22close it's true so okay so good these
- 00:17:25are good ideas so it's true that when
- 00:17:27the Israelites came out of Egypt they
- 00:17:29had this huge sin that they worshiped
- 00:17:32the golden calf although it wasn't most
- 00:17:34of the is Israelites didn't do it it was
- 00:17:36a small maybe 3,000 people the Torah
- 00:17:38says that actively participated so there
- 00:17:41is that's a idolatry of worshiping a
- 00:17:44golden calf uh but then related to that
- 00:17:47though there is another cow or calf in
- 00:17:50Judaism the red cow right the par the
- 00:17:54red heer the red heer which was actually
- 00:17:56according to many commentaries God Comm
- 00:17:58commanded the law of the red he heer the
- 00:18:00red cow to atone for the golden
- 00:18:03calf and so in in Hinduism the cow is
- 00:18:06Holy it's not consumed and it's
- 00:18:08considered to be an animal that's sacred
- 00:18:10and that's actually purifying so and
- 00:18:12there's five things five products of the
- 00:18:15cow that are considered purifying
- 00:18:17depending on how you use them what are
- 00:18:19those five products in Hinduism not in
- 00:18:22Judaism in Hinduism what what are they
- 00:18:24anybody know so the milk the milk the
- 00:18:28Cur
- 00:18:29ghee which is like butter essentially
- 00:18:32something like that like oil like a
- 00:18:34buttery oil and then
- 00:18:37urine and dung okay so in Hinduism the
- 00:18:41dung of the cow and the urine of the cow
- 00:18:43is purifying and belief to be healing
- 00:18:45and I don't know if you know this but
- 00:18:46maybe you caught this a couple of years
- 00:18:47ago during Co people were talking about
- 00:18:49how in India people thought drinking cow
- 00:18:51urine would prevent Co and was so maybe
- 00:18:56it does I don't know uh but that was
- 00:18:59going around that they were recommending
- 00:19:01to drink urine so funny story I used to
- 00:19:04do a lot of T tutoring and like science
- 00:19:07tutoring you know high school students
- 00:19:08University students and most of my
- 00:19:11students were Asian basically Chinese
- 00:19:15Indian Sri Lankan and so you get to know
- 00:19:17the families and so one I had one family
- 00:19:21that was I believe Sri Lankan very
- 00:19:22religious and every time I would come
- 00:19:24like in the evenings the mother would
- 00:19:26always go to the temple so she'd be like
- 00:19:28dressed up in the SAR it was really nice
- 00:19:30right and we always like we talk about
- 00:19:32it she' tell me about cuz you know she
- 00:19:33sees I'm religious you know with the
- 00:19:35keepa and she's like in her thing so one
- 00:19:37time I came and she was going to her
- 00:19:39Temple and the rest of the family wasn't
- 00:19:41religious you know the dad was watching
- 00:19:42TV she was going to the temple and uh so
- 00:19:46I was with the son we were like doing
- 00:19:48chemistry and biology and then the
- 00:19:50husband's watching TV and the mom's
- 00:19:51going to Temple and so I said oh well
- 00:19:54what is it today she's going to the
- 00:19:55temple she's like oh today is some
- 00:19:56festival with about about the holy cow
- 00:19:59and I was like oh you know like in
- 00:20:00Judaism we have something similar about
- 00:20:01a purifying cow you know whatever the
- 00:20:03ashes of the cow and this is what she
- 00:20:05told me it's funny she said oh do you
- 00:20:06drink the urine
- 00:20:09too and I I said no we don't go that far
- 00:20:12but uh isn't the D put on the fire also
- 00:20:16that yeah also that also that but then
- 00:20:18some of them actually like use it in
- 00:20:20various each of these five things is
- 00:20:21used in various ways as a purification
- 00:20:24agent so yeah so that's the urine and
- 00:20:27the dun so there's five things in
- 00:20:29Hinduism that are supposed to be
- 00:20:32purifying from the cow now the Toral of
- 00:20:35the red heer is it's you actually have
- 00:20:38to kill it and you have to slaughter it
- 00:20:40and burn it and then the ashes are
- 00:20:42purifying and this is actually the most
- 00:20:44purifying thing that you have cuz only
- 00:20:46the ashes that mixture prepared From the
- 00:20:49Ashes of the red cow is the only thing
- 00:20:51that can purify all impurity including
- 00:20:55the highest impurity which is the
- 00:20:56impurity of death so tat met the
- 00:20:59impurity of death is considered to be
- 00:21:01the highest level of impurity we are all
- 00:21:04considered to have that impurity today
- 00:21:06because we don't have the ashes of the
- 00:21:08red cow so we have we can purify by
- 00:21:11doing like Mikvah and certain things
- 00:21:12that we can do but we don't have the
- 00:21:14ashes of the red cow to get rid of the
- 00:21:17greatest impurity which is the impurity
- 00:21:19of death so if you've ever been to a
- 00:21:20cemetery or next to a dead body then you
- 00:21:23have that impurity of death yeah and so
- 00:21:25the belief in Judaism is when Messiah
- 00:21:27comes will have a red cow and we'll be
- 00:21:30able to make the ashes uh the mixture
- 00:21:33and we will'll be able to purify
- 00:21:34everybody although the truth is you
- 00:21:36don't need mashiah to do it there's
- 00:21:37always red cows they find them all the
- 00:21:39time there's a bunch of red cows in
- 00:21:41Israel they groom them a lot of American
- 00:21:44farmers in the South like religious
- 00:21:46Christians are always on the lookout for
- 00:21:48a red heer and they brought a whole
- 00:21:51bunch of them to Israel a few years ago
- 00:21:53so we have the cows we just need I guess
- 00:21:55mashiach or yeah the cows are there
- 00:21:59although again you technically you don't
- 00:22:01need mssiah like anybody any Cohen any
- 00:22:04group of coim who are know about the
- 00:22:06laws could do it and the temple
- 00:22:09Institute is today in Israel exists and
- 00:22:12they technically could do it so it just
- 00:22:14needs the willpower and uh people to
- 00:22:17accept it as valid and and actually make
- 00:22:20it happen so that's the holy cow and we
- 00:22:23both have this connection uh or this
- 00:22:26similarity in that we believe that there
- 00:22:28something about cows that has a
- 00:22:29purifying power a very high purifying
- 00:22:32power of course a cow is not inherently
- 00:22:34sacred in Judaism like it is in Hinduism
- 00:22:37but there is something purifying about
- 00:22:39the cow another way that we purify so
- 00:22:41right now today we don't have the ashes
- 00:22:43of the red heer so what is the way that
- 00:22:46we generally purify mik mik right we use
- 00:22:49water we use the mikah and it has to be
- 00:22:50a natural a body of water like a river
- 00:22:54whatever it is a natural Gathering Place
- 00:22:56of water and that's another another
- 00:22:58thing that's similar in Hinduism where a
- 00:22:59river is a purifying thing in particular
- 00:23:02one particular River purifies everything
- 00:23:05which is the Ganges right the Ganges
- 00:23:06River is considered like a holy River
- 00:23:08and many Hindus will pilgrimage to the
- 00:23:11Ganges to basically do AA to dunk in the
- 00:23:15in the Ganges or to to dump the ashes of
- 00:23:18some cremated uh beloved person because
- 00:23:21the Ganges is considered to be purifying
- 00:23:23as well so there's another connection
- 00:23:25there of using water immersion as
- 00:23:28purification another thing that's
- 00:23:30interesting is that Judaism is famous
- 00:23:33for having a written Torah and an oral
- 00:23:34Torah we have the Tor which is the five
- 00:23:37books of Moses plus the other 19 books
- 00:23:40of the tanak the written Torah and then
- 00:23:42we have the oral Torah which was oral
- 00:23:44Traditions that were passed down for
- 00:23:45centuries and that were eventually
- 00:23:46recorded mishna talmud we know that
- 00:23:49that's written in oral Torah Hindus have
- 00:23:51the same setup so Hindu religion they
- 00:23:54have a what's a a so-called written
- 00:23:56Torah so to speak and a oral Torah so
- 00:23:59the written Torah is what they call
- 00:24:01shuti shuti is what something like the V
- 00:24:04does an authoritative text it doesn't
- 00:24:06have a specific author it's considered
- 00:24:08to be divine and then they have many
- 00:24:10later text which are called STI which is
- 00:24:12what is remembered what does have an
- 00:24:15author it does have a name it's brought
- 00:24:18down in the name of some person based on
- 00:24:20an oral tradition an ancient oral
- 00:24:22tradition so they also have what's we
- 00:24:25call it written in oral they call it
- 00:24:27what is heard and what is remembered
- 00:24:29what is heard is like the ancient texts
- 00:24:31the vas the written ones that are
- 00:24:32considered to be divine and then what is
- 00:24:34remembered is oral Traditions that were
- 00:24:36passed down that were brought in the
- 00:24:38name of some person some Great Sage of
- 00:24:41the past so you can see how that's
- 00:24:42similar to what we
- 00:24:46have and an oral Torah where various
- 00:24:49rabbis and sages in the name bring
- 00:24:51teachings in the name of rabbis and
- 00:24:54sages right like what is so to speak
- 00:24:56what is remembered what was repeated
- 00:24:58mishna literally means repetition
- 00:24:59because it was actually done by memory
- 00:25:02where they would remember the oral Torah
- 00:25:04committed to memory eventually was
- 00:25:06written down so that setup where we have
- 00:25:08in Judaism of written in oral Torah they
- 00:25:11have something quite similar in Hinduism
- 00:25:13as well of what is heard and what is
- 00:25:15remembered of something written both are
- 00:25:17now written but something that's
- 00:25:19authoritative considered Divine and then
- 00:25:22something based on traditions and then
- 00:25:24part of that is there's a whole mystical
- 00:25:26tradition so just like in Judaism we
- 00:25:28have cabala we have all the deeper
- 00:25:30secrets that were kept hidden for a long
- 00:25:33period of time and then slowly started
- 00:25:35to be revealed you know in the last
- 00:25:37really thousand years so Hinduism has
- 00:25:40something very similar where there's a
- 00:25:41big mystical aspect to it there's a big
- 00:25:45part of Reincarnation of course right
- 00:25:46Hinduism is famous for
- 00:25:48reincarnation and Judaism has a lot of
- 00:25:50reincarnation although a lot of people
- 00:25:52don't know this but reincarnation what
- 00:25:54we call Gil gulim is very Central to
- 00:25:57Judaism
- 00:25:58and if you read a book like
- 00:26:00the or even better I I think is even
- 00:26:03clear there's a book by
- 00:26:06rabo it's also about 500 years
- 00:26:09old so there's sh
- 00:26:12and so the is actually goes in
- 00:26:16alphabetical order I I encourage all of
- 00:26:18you to read it I don't know if there's
- 00:26:19an English version but in Hebrew it just
- 00:26:21goes out is there an English one okay
- 00:26:23great so there's an English one so it
- 00:26:25goes in alphabetical order like Alf and
- 00:26:27everybody who's in the Torah and even
- 00:26:29later figures who are named with Al if
- 00:26:32who is he The Reincarnation of and why
- 00:26:34and who is The Reincarnation of and why
- 00:26:35and when you read it it's like you're
- 00:26:36blown away because it's so amazing and
- 00:26:38it's so perfect and you start making
- 00:26:40sense of all these people in tanak and
- 00:26:42even later even in the tal and like oh
- 00:26:45why did this in this bizarre story why
- 00:26:47did this happen and then it'll explain
- 00:26:49that well this person was a
- 00:26:50Reincarnation of that person and that's
- 00:26:52why that happened to them and you're
- 00:26:53like oh that makes so much sense right
- 00:26:55so it actually clarifies
- 00:26:58re the whole idea of reincarnation in
- 00:26:59Judaism clarifies so much A lot of these
- 00:27:02like strange bizarre stories in tanak
- 00:27:04like why did things happen to certain
- 00:27:06people reincarnation can explain it so
- 00:27:08reincarnation is actually a big part of
- 00:27:10Judaism the arel 500 years ago was like
- 00:27:13all about
- 00:27:14reincarnation that most Souls come back
- 00:27:17and have another go at life and usually
- 00:27:20they reincarnate three time I don't want
- 00:27:22to go into the mechanics of
- 00:27:23reincarnation but generally the way it
- 00:27:25works as the AR I'll explained based on
- 00:27:27verses in the Torah like when we say in
- 00:27:30the 13
- 00:27:35attributes that he extends his kindness
- 00:27:38to thousands right and
- 00:27:41then and he passes down the sins of the
- 00:27:46fathers right what does it
- 00:27:49say that he passes the sins of the
- 00:27:51fathers unto the children to the third
- 00:27:53and fourth
- 00:27:54generation but that makes no sense why
- 00:27:57does does that make no sense that God
- 00:27:59takes the sins of the parents and passes
- 00:28:01it down to the children to the third and
- 00:28:02fourth generation why does that not make
- 00:28:05sense because the Torah also
- 00:28:07says that every person dies for their
- 00:28:10own sins there's no such thing as
- 00:28:12because my parents sinned I have to
- 00:28:14suffer I didn't do
- 00:28:16it so the AR is saying the secret of
- 00:28:19that verse to the third and fourth
- 00:28:21generation it what it really means is
- 00:28:24that you get reincarnated three times up
- 00:28:26to three times if you get worse with
- 00:28:30each reincarnation so it secretly mean
- 00:28:33what it means when it says he God takes
- 00:28:35the sins of the fathers onto the
- 00:28:36children what it really means is he
- 00:28:37takes the sins from your past life and
- 00:28:40passes them on to this
- 00:28:41life like your your spiritual father
- 00:28:44like who you were in a past life the
- 00:28:46sins of your past life come to this one
- 00:28:49and it can go up to three times if you
- 00:28:52get worse with each reincarnation so God
- 00:28:54gives you another chance you reincarnate
- 00:28:56if you got worse the second time he
- 00:28:57gives you another chance if you got
- 00:28:59worse again he gives you another chance
- 00:29:00so you have four possible
- 00:29:03incarnations assuming that you're
- 00:29:05getting worse but what if you don't get
- 00:29:07worse what if you improve that's where
- 00:29:09it
- 00:29:11goes so God extends his kindness to
- 00:29:13thousands meaning as long as you get
- 00:29:15better with each Incarnation you can
- 00:29:17reincarnate thousands of times if you're
- 00:29:20improving so God wants to see
- 00:29:22Improvement but if you're degenerating
- 00:29:24each time then you get three chances and
- 00:29:27that's why the 13 attributes of of fa of
- 00:29:30mercy of of God it
- 00:29:32says that God gives you up to three or
- 00:29:35four chances to improve and then if not
- 00:29:38you're done then that's when you would
- 00:29:39go to other places like Gom like hell
- 00:29:42for you need a you know rehab or
- 00:29:45something you need to go to a place
- 00:29:47where yeah you that's it you don't get
- 00:29:50any more chances to come here so
- 00:29:52reincarnation is Central to Judaism
- 00:29:54although back in the day there were some
- 00:29:57people who opposed it like sadya gaon
- 00:29:59probably the most famous Rabbi about
- 00:30:021100 years ago 1200 years ago who
- 00:30:04opposed it was sadya gaon sadya gaon
- 00:30:08said there is no reincarnation in
- 00:30:09Judaism it's not true it's a Hindu idea
- 00:30:12that came that Jews adopted from India
- 00:30:14or something you know so rafadon who was
- 00:30:17a really big important Rabbi about 1,00
- 00:30:20years ago he didn't hold by
- 00:30:22reincarnation but later Rabbi said no he
- 00:30:25only said that because he was just not
- 00:30:27exposed to it he wasn't exposed to
- 00:30:29Jewish mysticism that was in the time
- 00:30:31before the Zohar was published before
- 00:30:33the arel so at that time all these
- 00:30:36manuscripts were in were secret and
- 00:30:38rafadon just wasn't exposed to it so he
- 00:30:41didn't know about it if he would have
- 00:30:42been exposed to it he couldn't have
- 00:30:44denied it and and I agree with that
- 00:30:46because again if you read a book
- 00:30:48like there's no way you're going to deny
- 00:30:50reincarnation because it's so obvious
- 00:30:53that it's everywhere throughout the
- 00:30:54Torah it explains everything so
- 00:30:56beautifully that you can't really
- 00:30:58understand any tanak figure without
- 00:31:01factoring in reincarnation so it's super
- 00:31:03important and so there's an interesting
- 00:31:05hiic teaching it's kind of funny it's
- 00:31:07ironic so there's aidic tradition that
- 00:31:11sadya gon sinned by ref rejecting
- 00:31:14reincarnation so what was his tikun what
- 00:31:17was his rectification he was
- 00:31:19reincarnated as the
- 00:31:20balov all right cuz the Balto the
- 00:31:23founder of kism was all about
- 00:31:25reincarnation right and there's many
- 00:31:27stories of the balov who went around and
- 00:31:30would do certain rituals to free Sparks
- 00:31:33that were trapped in various animals you
- 00:31:35know I'm sure you've heard these stories
- 00:31:36in a horse maybe in a river or whatever
- 00:31:39he did various blessings and prayers and
- 00:31:41and tiim to elevate Souls that had
- 00:31:44sinful Souls that reincarnated in
- 00:31:46animals and things like that so there's
- 00:31:47aidic tradition that the balov was a
- 00:31:50Reincarnation of sadya that was his tun
- 00:31:53for in a past life rejecting the notion
- 00:31:56of of reincarnation so that today
- 00:31:58probably the two biggest religions that
- 00:32:01hold by reincarnation is Hinduism and
- 00:32:04Judaism at least the more cabalistic
- 00:32:05aspects of Judaism reincarnation is big
- 00:32:08in both other mystical texts the the
- 00:32:10main body of mystical texts in Hinduism
- 00:32:13they're called the upanishads you can
- 00:32:15get a copy today translated into English
- 00:32:18it's fascinating to read and I I'll
- 00:32:21point I'll P pull out some of the verses
- 00:32:24from the upanishads that I read that I
- 00:32:26just as I was reading this I thought wow
- 00:32:28this is like reading something from the
- 00:32:30Torah something from the gamar so look
- 00:32:32what it says the cath panad it says like
- 00:32:35this there's three main duties of a
- 00:32:37person the three main duties of a person
- 00:32:39and this is what it says I quote it said
- 00:32:41the cath panad says the three main
- 00:32:43duties of a person I quote studying the
- 00:32:46scriptures ritual worship and giving
- 00:32:48alms to those in need all right what
- 00:32:51does that sound like it sounds exactly
- 00:32:54like pure kot right shimik
- 00:32:58what
- 00:33:01right soim taught in that the three most
- 00:33:05important things in the world is Torah
- 00:33:07Torah study aod which is divine service
- 00:33:11worship and act of
- 00:33:13kindness and the says the same thing
- 00:33:16study the scriptures ritual worship give
- 00:33:18alms to those in
- 00:33:20need it's the same thing right amazing
- 00:33:24the
- 00:33:25chandad says describes om You Know M
- 00:33:29they when they meditate they say om
- 00:33:31right oh what is what what's the M all
- 00:33:34about so om is called the primordial
- 00:33:37sound it's the sound of creation that's
- 00:33:39the Mantra of Brahman Brahman the
- 00:33:42Oneness the one you know the a the the
- 00:33:45syllable of the a of Brahman is om and
- 00:33:49what does it say I quote with the word
- 00:33:51om we say I agree and fulfill desires we
- 00:33:54with M we recite we give direction we s
- 00:33:56say aloud the honor of that word the key
- 00:33:59to the three kinds of knowledge this
- 00:34:02universe comes forth from Brahman exists
- 00:34:04in Brahman and will return to Brahman
- 00:34:07verily all is Brahman so that's what om
- 00:34:10means like when you're meditating and
- 00:34:11you're saying om it's all about
- 00:34:13recognizing the Oneness that everything
- 00:34:15is in that we're all part of one energy
- 00:34:19it's all one it's like saying like you
- 00:34:24know means past present future
- 00:34:28everything God is everywhere and we're
- 00:34:30all part of that Oneness and it says
- 00:34:33that oh means also like I agree it's an
- 00:34:35affirmation which is the same as amen
- 00:34:37when we say Amen it's the same thing
- 00:34:39somebody says a blessing prayer you say
- 00:34:41Amen you're saying I agree it's an
- 00:34:43affirmation so om and amen actually have
- 00:34:46the same spiritual origin same as amuna
- 00:34:50amuna is all about the faith seeing
- 00:34:52everything is one the Oneness of reality
- 00:34:55that's allun seen God in all things but
- 00:34:58what's even more amazing than that m in
- 00:35:01Judaism om is one of the names of
- 00:35:05God uh you have you heard of the 72
- 00:35:08names of God in cabala there's something
- 00:35:11really important God has many names we
- 00:35:13believe really the whole Torah is names
- 00:35:15of God on the deepest kind of cabalistic
- 00:35:17level the whole Torah is just a
- 00:35:19meditation of different names of God
- 00:35:21from beginning to end and so there's a
- 00:35:23place in the Torah in shot in Exodus
- 00:35:25where there's three vers vers
- 00:35:27consecutive verses that all have 72
- 00:35:31letters they all have exactly 72 letters
- 00:35:34three in a row okay it's the verses that
- 00:35:36talk at the splitting of the sea it
- 00:35:43says that God lifted a cloud before them
- 00:35:48and so on so what it's that verse
- 00:35:50there's three verses and each of the
- 00:35:52three verses has 72 letters and so
- 00:35:54there's a cabalistic thing where a very
- 00:35:57deep like mystical ancient secret that
- 00:35:59you take the first letter of the first
- 00:36:01verse the last letter of the second
- 00:36:03verse and the first letter of the third
- 00:36:05verse and that's one name of God it's a
- 00:36:07three-letter name of God and then you
- 00:36:10take the second letter and then the
- 00:36:11second to last letter and the second
- 00:36:13letter and you put them together that's
- 00:36:14the next name of God then you take the
- 00:36:16third one from the front the third one
- 00:36:18from the back and the third one and you
- 00:36:19put together and there's a chart of 72
- 00:36:22names okay sometimes it's called like
- 00:36:24the 216 letter name because it's 72 *
- 00:36:27three letters each name of God has three
- 00:36:29letters and one of those names of God is
- 00:36:38om so it actually is one of the
- 00:36:41cabalistic names of God so it's another
- 00:36:43interesting parallel so if you were to
- 00:36:45meditate on M there is actually a
- 00:36:47cabalistic meditation where you would
- 00:36:49meditate on each of the 72 names and
- 00:36:52visualize it those three letters in your
- 00:36:55mind and so one of them them inevitably
- 00:36:57is om so it's another very clear overlap
- 00:37:01between Hinduism and Judaism and by the
- 00:37:04way in the list of the 72 names of God
- 00:37:08which number do you think om
- 00:37:10is it's number 30 and I only point that
- 00:37:14out because how do you write M like the
- 00:37:17Sanskrit symbol for M have you seen this
- 00:37:20you know the symbol for Hinduism it
- 00:37:22looks like a 30 right it's like it looks
- 00:37:25like a 30 so I just thought that was
- 00:37:27really cute that the Sanskrit way to
- 00:37:30write m is like a 30 and it's the 30th
- 00:37:34of the 72 names in the Hebrew version is
- 00:37:37om and so that leads me to the next
- 00:37:40thing that we have in common which is
- 00:37:42gatria and numerology and numbers right
- 00:37:45Hinduism has a lot of numerology Judaism
- 00:37:47has a lot of numerology and gatria and
- 00:37:50more than that Hindus invented our
- 00:37:51number system the numbers that we use
- 00:37:53today are Hindi numerals they are famous
- 00:37:55for introducing ing the use of the of
- 00:37:58the number zero which was a big deal and
- 00:38:02using zero in mathematics so the Hindus
- 00:38:05were way advanced in math 2,000 years
- 00:38:07ago 1500 years ago a lot of the
- 00:38:10foundational concepts of mathematics
- 00:38:12came from the Hindus through the Arabs
- 00:38:15the Arabs really bridged you know Europe
- 00:38:17and India and it was actually a bunch of
- 00:38:20rabbis that introduced it to Europe
- 00:38:21because who were the people that knew
- 00:38:23both Arabic and European languages and
- 00:38:27Latin and Spanish and Greek the the
- 00:38:29people who bridged the Two Worlds were a
- 00:38:31bunch of spari Jews cuz the spari Jews
- 00:38:33in Spain they spoke Arabic and they also
- 00:38:35spoke Spanish so there's a number of
- 00:38:37rabbis that are credited with
- 00:38:39transferring Hindu mathematics to Europe
- 00:38:42and creating a a boom in mathematical
- 00:38:45knowledge in Europe in the 1100s 1200s
- 00:38:481300s so the Eben Ezra is one Abraham
- 00:38:51iben Ezra who was one of the sari Chief
- 00:38:53rabbis and wrote a famous commentary on
- 00:38:55the Torah and the Ian Ezra introduced
- 00:38:58was one of the people that introduced
- 00:38:59Hindi numerals and Hindi mathematics to
- 00:39:02Europe there's a crater on the moon
- 00:39:04named after him because of that there's
- 00:39:06an abenezer crater on the moon so one
- 00:39:08day when we all live on the moon you
- 00:39:10might want to buy a house in the Abeer
- 00:39:13crater on the E ezzar quarter of the
- 00:39:16Moon another person was we mentioned him
- 00:39:19a few months ago Abraham Baria another
- 00:39:22very famous FY Rabbi Abraham Baria who
- 00:39:25was the first to introduce the first
- 00:39:26time we see the quadratic formula in
- 00:39:28Europe was introduced by ra Baria and
- 00:39:32also the quadratic formula we first
- 00:39:34finded the most ancient the earliest we
- 00:39:36see it is in India and the earliest that
- 00:39:39we see it in Europe in the west is from
- 00:39:42uh trus by Abraham Baria so if you do
- 00:39:46like me grade 12 chemistry you're going
- 00:39:48to do a lot of quadratic formulas I
- 00:39:50don't know if you remember this from
- 00:39:51high school um maybe you deliberately
- 00:39:53erased it from your brain because that
- 00:39:56long formula but yeah so the quadratic
- 00:39:59formula was first we see it first in
- 00:40:01India in the East and in the west we see
- 00:40:04it first among rabbis sari rabbis it's
- 00:40:06very interesting so there is that
- 00:40:09numbers numerology the number zero which
- 00:40:12again our rabbis spoke about zero and
- 00:40:15what do you think they called the zero g
- 00:40:17they called it the galal right like a
- 00:40:19circle today in modern Hebrew it's
- 00:40:21called fs and do you know where that
- 00:40:23comes from in modern Hebrew the word for
- 00:40:25zero is F right in in rinic text it's
- 00:40:28called the galal the circle in modern
- 00:40:32Hebrew it's called epes you know where
- 00:40:33that comes from nothing yeah from where
- 00:40:36it has it has a source in the
- 00:40:38Torah so it comes from when ysf was in
- 00:40:41Egypt and he gathered all the grain
- 00:40:44remember Joseph gathered all the Grain
- 00:40:45and then the famine started and people
- 00:40:47had no food so then they came to YF for
- 00:40:50food and this is what they said it says
- 00:40:54in that the Egyptians had no money
- 00:40:57left and the Canaanites had no money
- 00:41:01left and all the Egyptians came to
- 00:41:04Joseph and they
- 00:41:07said give us bread give us
- 00:41:11food why should we die we have nothing
- 00:41:14left and this is what they
- 00:41:19said kasf we have zero money when the
- 00:41:23Egyptians and Canaanites saw their bank
- 00:41:25statement and it's set a zero big fat
- 00:41:28zero on it so they said they told y FF
- 00:41:32we have no money left so it's zero so we
- 00:41:36you see a an ancient source for zero
- 00:41:39again in in the Torah and an ancient
- 00:41:42Hindu uh texts okay the last one this is
- 00:41:44the big one and then we'll conclude the
- 00:41:48big one in especially if you like yoga
- 00:41:51what's a big thing uh in yoga when it
- 00:41:54comes to like centering yourself and
- 00:41:55meditating on the various things in your
- 00:41:59body the breath and what do we associate
- 00:42:02all these things with there's this whole
- 00:42:03notion of chakras right of having
- 00:42:06various chakras depending on who you ask
- 00:42:08there might be five or six or seven
- 00:42:09chakras not more than seven from what
- 00:42:11I've seen a chakra is literally means a
- 00:42:13wheel and it's supposed to represent a
- 00:42:16certain energy in your body a channel
- 00:42:18you know a place a concentration of of
- 00:42:20energy of force it's something to
- 00:42:22meditate on and in short the parallel to
- 00:42:25that in Judaism what is
- 00:42:27always yeah which is the SP right we
- 00:42:31have in cabala all of Jewish mysticism
- 00:42:33cabala is based on the idea of of 10
- 00:42:38Divine energies three higher ones and
- 00:42:40seven lower ones the three higher ones
- 00:42:42are called the M the intellectual ones
- 00:42:45and the Seven lower ones the midot and
- 00:42:47so you have 10 Divine energies that God
- 00:42:49blew into this universe that the whole
- 00:42:51universe is permeated with and it's a
- 00:42:54way for us to basically understand
- 00:42:55everything right they are within us they
- 00:42:57are within the cosmos around us they
- 00:43:00contain the whole universe um like the
- 00:43:02kind of the edges of the physical
- 00:43:04Universe are held by the spot which are
- 00:43:07kind of like or arranged in concentric
- 00:43:10Rings or spheres around the whole Cosmos
- 00:43:12in fact the English word sphere which
- 00:43:15comes from the Greek sphera is thought
- 00:43:17to have a shared atmology with the
- 00:43:20Hebrew so SP and sphere actually have
- 00:43:23some ancient connection because it was
- 00:43:25all about concentric spheres of energy
- 00:43:29around the cosmos and chakra is similar
- 00:43:32because it means a wheel and if you
- 00:43:34actually look at them there's so much in
- 00:43:35common the first chakra at the very top
- 00:43:38is called the crown chakra and the first
- 00:43:41of the SP is called ker ker literally
- 00:43:44means a crown right so it's the same and
- 00:43:47the crown chakra is associated with the
- 00:43:48skull and ker is associated with the
- 00:43:51skull right and then within the skull is
- 00:43:54the brain which for us is
- 00:43:58and those are called those are the four
- 00:44:01aspects of the higher SP you
- 00:44:05have
- 00:44:08and and that's by the way inin you know
- 00:44:11thein it has four parchments the head
- 00:44:13Fillin has four compartments the armed
- 00:44:16Fillin has one compartment and the head
- 00:44:18Fillin has four compartments so if you
- 00:44:20look at what the Aral says he says that
- 00:44:22the head fill and has four compartments
- 00:44:24to correspond to the
- 00:44:26right to the four aspects of the the
- 00:44:28higher SPH and so in Hinduism you have
- 00:44:31the first chakra is the crown chakra and
- 00:44:35then the second one after that is called
- 00:44:37the third eye chakra because you know
- 00:44:39there's the third eye thing you know
- 00:44:41Hindus put the Little Red Dot and the
- 00:44:43Red Dot is it's also ornamental but it's
- 00:44:46supposed to also be like a channel into
- 00:44:48the brain into the inner third eye
- 00:44:51because we all have an inner spiritual
- 00:44:53third eye in addition to our two
- 00:44:55physical eyes so the whole idea of the
- 00:44:57third eye is really big in Hinduism and
- 00:44:59believe it or not it's actually also
- 00:45:01important in Jewish mysticism and that's
- 00:45:03actually the Fillin on a cabalistic
- 00:45:06level filin is supposed to channel that
- 00:45:08third eye the spiritual eye and that's
- 00:45:10why the Tora says to put it between your
- 00:45:12eyes even though it's not we don't put
- 00:45:14it literally between our eyes but it's
- 00:45:16supposed to channel your inner third eye
- 00:45:20now this all sounds very like mystical
- 00:45:22but do we actually physically have such
- 00:45:24a structure is there in your brain a
- 00:45:27third
- 00:45:31eye exactly the pineal gland so there is
- 00:45:33a part in your brain deep in your brain
- 00:45:36there's a little organ called the pineal
- 00:45:38gland and what's amazing is that it has
- 00:45:40photo receptors the pineal gland has the
- 00:45:44same cells that are in your eyes that
- 00:45:46absorb light photo receptors your pineal
- 00:45:49gland has photo receptors which is
- 00:45:52bizarre right it's deep in your brain
- 00:45:55and yet it has receptors light receptors
- 00:45:59like your eyes do and in Birds the
- 00:46:01pineal gland is really up high right at
- 00:46:04the B like right under the the skull and
- 00:46:07so it actually does pick up sunlight and
- 00:46:09it helps them
- 00:46:10navigate so in birds and reptiles the
- 00:46:13pineal glands up top for us it's deep
- 00:46:15inside so we don't use it to pick up
- 00:46:17light but it still has photo receptors
- 00:46:19in it so it literally is like a third
- 00:46:22eye and what's amazing is the pineal
- 00:46:24gland its main job in your body is to
- 00:46:27put you to sleep it's releases melatonin
- 00:46:30melatonin is the sleep hormone so the
- 00:46:33pineal gland is what actually regulates
- 00:46:35your circadian rhythm that's what
- 00:46:37regulates your that's how your body nods
- 00:46:39it has a 24-hour cycle even if you
- 00:46:42didn't look at your clock your body has
- 00:46:43a natural circadian rhythm and the
- 00:46:46pineal gland is the main organ that
- 00:46:48keeps your body's clock going and it
- 00:46:51releases melatonin in the evening it
- 00:46:52gets you tired puts you to sleep and
- 00:46:55then you wake wake up when the Melatonin
- 00:46:56levels drop so that's the pineal gland I
- 00:47:00actually first learned about this from
- 00:47:03one of the world's experts actually at
- 00:47:04York University there's a fourth year
- 00:47:07course about biological timekeeping
- 00:47:09circadian rhythms and there's a
- 00:47:10professor there calling steel who is
- 00:47:12actually does research in on the pineal
- 00:47:15gland and on circadian rhythms and I
- 00:47:17tried to work in his lab but he didn't
- 00:47:19take me so but the class was fascinating
- 00:47:23nonetheless so the pineal gland releases
- 00:47:26melatonin puts you to sleep very
- 00:47:27important really small and it has photo
- 00:47:29receptors like an eye but what's even
- 00:47:31more interesting for Spiritual things is
- 00:47:33that it also has something called DMT
- 00:47:36dimethyl tryptamine which is God
- 00:47:39molecule some call it the god molecule
- 00:47:41or The Spirit Molecule some people take
- 00:47:43it as a drug uh in Native American
- 00:47:46Shaman rituals they do Brew iasa tea
- 00:47:49maybe you've heard of iasa it has DMT
- 00:47:51and it's supposed to open up your mind
- 00:47:53and it's very psychedelic and make makes
- 00:47:56people uh hallucinate and and some
- 00:47:58people say they see God or they hear
- 00:48:00messages they receive prophecy and so
- 00:48:03various cultures around the world
- 00:48:04actually use DMT some people say that
- 00:48:06also in Hinduism Hindu ancient texts
- 00:48:09talk about something called s which is
- 00:48:11like you know the drink of the gods or
- 00:48:13something like that and some people say
- 00:48:15that some people think that Som we don't
- 00:48:17know what it is but some people think
- 00:48:19that s had DMT uh in fact I know one
- 00:48:22Rabbi who has a tradition and he's done
- 00:48:24a lot of research into this I'm not
- 00:48:26going to say his name cuz I don't think
- 00:48:27he wants people to know who he is but
- 00:48:29he's done a lot of research in Judaism
- 00:48:30on DMT and he has a tradition going back
- 00:48:33to the Villa own that look looks into
- 00:48:36DMT from a Jewish perspective and
- 00:48:39perhaps what the tree that was used in
- 00:48:42the
- 00:48:43mishan Apparently those trees have a
- 00:48:46high amount of DMT as well so perhaps
- 00:48:48there was a DMT Connection in the tanak
- 00:48:51in our tradition as well and the the
- 00:48:54pineal gland has DM
- 00:48:56so your brain naturally produces some of
- 00:48:58it and it's believed that that's what
- 00:48:59helps you dream that's what makes you
- 00:49:01dream that's what gives you your dream
- 00:49:03visions and that's why dreams can be so
- 00:49:05powerful and can be prophetic so it's
- 00:49:07the same DMT so you don't really need
- 00:49:09the drugs you know and both Hinduism and
- 00:49:11Judaism agree that you shouldn't take
- 00:49:13drugs to get to that level of Prophecy
- 00:49:15because you do have it in your brain and
- 00:49:17you can upregulate you can your you can
- 00:49:19actually train your brain to release
- 00:49:22more DMT and help you see more spirit
- 00:49:25viral things very interesting Side Story
- 00:49:28there was only one researcher in the US
- 00:49:32that was given permission by the
- 00:49:33government to research DMT and
- 00:49:35experiment on people give them DMT and
- 00:49:38see what happens his name is Rick
- 00:49:39strasman he is like the world's number
- 00:49:41one most famous DMT researcher and Rick
- 00:49:44strasman was born Jewish became a
- 00:49:47Buddhist was like a Buddhist monk for
- 00:49:49like 20 years and he wrote a book called
- 00:49:53The Spirit Molecule he's a scientist and
- 00:49:55he wrote All About he did this research
- 00:49:57on hundreds of people with DMT and he
- 00:50:00believes that it is The Spirit Molecule
- 00:50:02that it has something to do with
- 00:50:03prophecy and what's interesting in
- 00:50:05recent years Rick strasman who was a
- 00:50:07Buddhist for 20 years became a BAL
- 00:50:10Chua and now he wrote a book called DMT
- 00:50:13and the soul of Prophecy and he argues
- 00:50:16that the Hebrew prophets the prophets of
- 00:50:18the
- 00:50:19Tanakh had DMT like Visions based on his
- 00:50:24uh studies on DMT so very interesting
- 00:50:27figure somebody who realized after 20
- 00:50:29years as a Buddhist that that's not the
- 00:50:30right path and that he came back to
- 00:50:32Judaism uh so that's the thing with with
- 00:50:34DMT interesting story and DMT is in the
- 00:50:37pineal gland the third eye chakra the
- 00:50:39pineal gland in your brain the Fillin is
- 00:50:41supposed to channel the same thing
- 00:50:43cabalistic texts say that this is the
- 00:50:45mystery of the Torah saying that belam
- 00:50:48remember belam that he wasum that he had
- 00:50:51a closed eye that cabalistic texts say
- 00:50:54the closed eye was his inner eye was his
- 00:50:56third eye you know in in the brain and
- 00:50:59the arel says that Fillin is supposed to
- 00:51:01channel that same energy the inner light
- 00:51:04in your brain and the AR says that's why
- 00:51:07Fillin has to be made of leather because
- 00:51:09how do you say leather in
- 00:51:11Hebrew right or with an and he says
- 00:51:14that's really like or with an Al means
- 00:51:16light so it's supposed to remind you
- 00:51:18that it's actually about the inner light
- 00:51:20in your brain in the M the deep in your
- 00:51:24brain so so even the the Fillin is on a
- 00:51:27very deeper mystical level supposed to
- 00:51:29channel the third eye and King Solomon
- 00:51:31also alluded to this King Solomon said
- 00:51:33in he
- 00:51:36said the wise man his eyes are in his
- 00:51:39head so the zor says what do you mean
- 00:51:41the his eyes are in his head the zor
- 00:51:43actually says there's like it's the the
- 00:51:44eye in your head your inner third eye
- 00:51:47that's what King Solomon was saying that
- 00:51:49the wise man has his eyes in his
- 00:51:52head so it's all alluded to secretly
- 00:51:56in the in the Torah so that's the third
- 00:51:59eye chakra and then you have the throat
- 00:52:01chakra the throat chakra is what we
- 00:52:03would in in the Z in the tree of life in
- 00:52:06the that would
- 00:52:08be is about the breath and that's where
- 00:52:10air flows through and that's at the
- 00:52:12center of all the other SP and then you
- 00:52:14have the heart chakra which is like
- 00:52:16which is all about love and compassion
- 00:52:18and all that and then you have the solar
- 00:52:19chakra which is about fear so it's the
- 00:52:21gur it's the pad it's the de it's the
- 00:52:24opposite so it's very very similar to
- 00:52:26the way that we look at is this
- 00:52:28description of chakras and they have the
- 00:52:30sacal chakra which is Y which is
- 00:52:32everything with reproduction and then
- 00:52:34the root chakra at the very bottom which
- 00:52:36is like Mal and that's associated with
- 00:52:38the mouth just like in we say Mal Mal
- 00:52:42associated with the mouth so the chakras
- 00:52:45and the have a lot in common there's so
- 00:52:48much similar between Judaism and
- 00:52:49Hinduism in some ways even more than
- 00:52:51with Christianity and Islam which are
- 00:52:53really our our closer cousins but
- 00:52:56there's a lot in common between Judaism
- 00:52:57and Hinduism so how do we put it all
- 00:52:59together a yehudi a Jew is a yehudi and
- 00:53:03the Hindu is a hodi right it's spelled
- 00:53:05the same way but with one letter
- 00:53:08difference right the yehudi has a UD in
- 00:53:10front the hodi is like the yehudi
- 00:53:12without the ud so if you take the the
- 00:53:15god part if you take AEM theud out of
- 00:53:19Judaism then you have the Hinduism right
- 00:53:21you have once you take it out and you
- 00:53:23make it polytheistic you have the
- 00:53:25right the the Jew is like the hodi with
- 00:53:28god with the one God Even in our names
- 00:53:30there's a connection between the hodi
- 00:53:32and the yehudi and in fact we were
- 00:53:35connected throughout history it seems
- 00:53:36like we were so separated but actually
- 00:53:39our history is intertwin and the talmud
- 00:53:41even has this interesting the first time
- 00:53:43I saw this I was blown away but in it
- 00:53:46says that there was a rabbi his name was
- 00:53:49is what it says rabuda Hindu rabuda the
- 00:53:52Hindu there was a rabbi 2,000 years ago
- 00:53:55bit less 1500 years ago who was called
- 00:53:57RAB Yehuda the Hindu and the tal says
- 00:54:02Hindu he was a g he was a convert there
- 00:54:05was a Hindu man who converted to Judaism
- 00:54:08and he didn't just convert he became a
- 00:54:09rabbi he was a big enough Rabbi to be
- 00:54:12mentioned in the talud and the talud
- 00:54:14brings him to say that because he
- 00:54:16converted and he had no family so he had
- 00:54:18no Yin he had no inheritors so the talud
- 00:54:23brings his case to to explore what
- 00:54:25happens when a convert passes away what
- 00:54:28happens to all of their stuff cuz if
- 00:54:30they don't have family and they're no
- 00:54:31longer connected to their Gentile family
- 00:54:34what do you do with their things so it's
- 00:54:36an interesting case so there was even
- 00:54:37back then 1500 years ago a Hindu Jewish
- 00:54:41rabbi mentioned in the
- 00:54:42tud and there are of course lost tribes
- 00:54:45in in India maybe you've heard of some
- 00:54:47of the Lost tribes are thought to be in
- 00:54:49India there's a community called B
- 00:54:51manasha the B manasha community in India
- 00:54:54believes themselves to be descendants of
- 00:54:56the Lost tribe of men that they were
- 00:54:59exiled you know 2 and a half thousand
- 00:55:01years ago to the far east as well and
- 00:55:04it's believed that many of the Lost
- 00:55:05tribes went there to that region to
- 00:55:07Afghanistan for sure there's lost tribes
- 00:55:09you know a lot of bukharians say that
- 00:55:11were're lost tribes like Afghanistan
- 00:55:13usbekistan all that whole region and
- 00:55:14further east in in India so the Ben
- 00:55:18manasha believe that they are
- 00:55:19descendants of mines and there are today
- 00:55:21many Indians who are not necessarily
- 00:55:23related to B Min but believe themselves
- 00:55:25to be Jewish you know descendants of
- 00:55:28Jews and have various interesting
- 00:55:30traditions and rituals that they think
- 00:55:33comes from their ancient Jewish
- 00:55:35ancestors and even our recent history
- 00:55:37overlaps this is another striking
- 00:55:39parallel because when was the state of
- 00:55:42Israel
- 00:55:43formed 1948 and the partition plan was
- 00:55:46just a few months earlier in November
- 00:55:491947 and in August 1947 just a few
- 00:55:52months before that was when India got
- 00:55:54independence right so India got
- 00:55:56independence they celebrate their
- 00:55:58independence day on August 15 1947
- 00:56:01that's when India got independence from
- 00:56:03the British and then just a few months
- 00:56:05later the British also gave up up Israel
- 00:56:07handed it over to the UN and the UN
- 00:56:09partitioned it so within a year of each
- 00:56:11other in less than a year India and
- 00:56:13Israel got independence really from the
- 00:56:16British or the British Empire so that's
- 00:56:18another thing that links us together and
- 00:56:20since then we've both had issues with
- 00:56:22our Muslim neighbors so there's also
- 00:56:25that whole problem and so really that
- 00:56:27makes Israel and India natural allies I
- 00:56:29mean we should be natural allies so yeah
- 00:56:31Israel and India have been actually
- 00:56:33growing even closer and this is the most
- 00:56:35interesting which and then I'll finish
- 00:56:37because this is just fascinating in the
- 00:56:39last century two of among the biggest
- 00:56:42and most famous Hindu
- 00:56:44yogis were
- 00:56:46Jews in India Yogi yeah one was called
- 00:56:50Swami vianda world famous people from
- 00:56:53all over the world come
- 00:56:55to get you know blessings from him but
- 00:56:58he's actually a Jew and a holocaust
- 00:57:00Survivor and his you won't believe his
- 00:57:02real name
- 00:57:05Abraham it's funny but Abraham became
- 00:57:09Swami
- 00:57:10vianda he you you know now he's tanned
- 00:57:12with a big beard but you know he he
- 00:57:15could be aidic rebi so he was he was
- 00:57:17born to aidic family he survived the
- 00:57:19Holocaust after the Holocaust he was on
- 00:57:22a ship to Israel and somebody told him
- 00:57:24why you going to Israel you just came
- 00:57:26from war over there there's more war go
- 00:57:28to India it's peaceful there you should
- 00:57:30go to India so he said all right I'll
- 00:57:32try it so he went to India and ended up
- 00:57:33becoming a yogi and now became like
- 00:57:35world famous one of the top Hindu yogis
- 00:57:38in the world and he's actually Abraham
- 00:57:40is from aidic family but he's Swami
- 00:57:42vianda to many millions of Hindus and
- 00:57:47similar to him is a a woman a Jewish
- 00:57:49woman named mea alasa anybody ever hear
- 00:57:52of mea alasa so mea alasa was a Sparty
- 00:57:55woman a French Sparty she had Turkish
- 00:57:58Egyptian uh parents and her father was
- 00:58:01like all sparties you know big into
- 00:58:02cabala and whatever so she grew up
- 00:58:05reading his cabala library and then she
- 00:58:07became a Mystic she joined a cabalistic
- 00:58:10circle hidic cabalistic circle in Poland
- 00:58:13and eventually wanted to explore all
- 00:58:14this mysticism further moved to India
- 00:58:17when she was young in India she met a
- 00:58:20Hindu very famous Yogi named srio rindo
- 00:58:24Maybe of Shor Rob bindo and he told her
- 00:58:28that he recognized within her the Great
- 00:58:30Divine mother the cosmic mother like
- 00:58:33something like a Hindu Virgin Mary or
- 00:58:35something I don't know I used to use a
- 00:58:37pick a myself yeah exactly yeah it works
- 00:58:41so but then he created this whole cult
- 00:58:43around her and when she when he died in
- 00:58:451950 she took she took over the movement
- 00:58:48and it became a massive movement and she
- 00:58:50even built a city which is called
- 00:58:52Oroville and uh it became like it was
- 00:58:54supposed to be like a model community
- 00:58:56and to this day people go there to
- 00:58:58pilgrimage there and she once had a
- 00:59:00vision of like a golden dome and she
- 00:59:03actually they built a golden temple it's
- 00:59:05actually look pictures on the internet
- 00:59:07but they built a a big Golden Temple uh
- 00:59:10it's called the matri mandir you know
- 00:59:12it's the Mother Temple and uh there's
- 00:59:15it's a whole community and you can go
- 00:59:16and live there so people pilgrimage
- 00:59:18there they spend six months a year to
- 00:59:20live in nature without electronics
- 00:59:23nothing and it has its own Farm schools
- 00:59:26restaurants it's like a self- sustaining
- 00:59:28community and there is also an Israeli
- 00:59:31Cafe so if you ever go there and and
- 00:59:33it's closed on Shabbat so uh it's I
- 00:59:36don't know if it's koser but it's I
- 00:59:37think the whole place is vegan so is she
- 00:59:40still po theistic no she's she's passed
- 00:59:42away but it's still very Hindu yeah it's
- 00:59:44all it's like it's all it's like a yoga
- 00:59:46retreat basically people go there for
- 00:59:48that kind of thing yoga healing natural
- 00:59:50living all that since the 60s people
- 00:59:52would go there for the whole hippie
- 00:59:54experience you know like Israeli like
- 00:59:56IDF soldiers after the army or like
- 00:59:58Americans like the Vietnam years and all
- 01:00:00that like leave the west and go and have
- 01:00:03that whole hippie experience in the East
- 01:00:05and like get rid of all your belongings
- 01:00:06and just like sleep on the floor no
- 01:00:09electronics and no worries and no money
- 01:00:11that brings me to my last point which is
- 01:00:14that in the last you know 50 60 70 years
- 01:00:17even more really there has been a trend
- 01:00:19of Jews going to the east Jews looking
- 01:00:21for meaning and spirituality in e
- 01:00:24Eastern philosophies and Buddhism and
- 01:00:26Hinduism and other things and um just
- 01:00:29like Mir alasa just like Rick strasman
- 01:00:32and Rick strasman is a good example
- 01:00:34because we should remember that we don't
- 01:00:35need to go there we actually have all of
- 01:00:37this mysticism and spirituality and
- 01:00:39depth in our in our Torah in our Judah
- 01:00:42and we really kind of had it first it
- 01:00:44all dates back to Abraham you know to
- 01:00:46who's the forefather of of all of us and
- 01:00:48we've carried on this direct tradition
- 01:00:50monotheistic as it should be without any
- 01:00:54Idol Tre you know for 4,000 years
- 01:00:56whereas in the East these ideas that may
- 01:00:59have come from Abraham but they mixed in
- 01:01:01with local polytheism local idolatries
- 01:01:04and over time they just got jumbled
- 01:01:06together and so there is truth there and
- 01:01:07it is attractive to people but it's also
- 01:01:09mixed with a with idolatry and there's
- 01:01:12no need to go there when we have the the
- 01:01:15pure unadulterated version right here we
- 01:01:17just have to understand it properly
- 01:01:20study our own faith and our own Heritage
- 01:01:22and our own holy text because they have
- 01:01:24all of this the mysticism The
- 01:01:26Reincarnation the numerology the third
- 01:01:28eye and the DMT and whatever you want uh
- 01:01:31it's all part of the Hebrew tradition as
- 01:01:33well so you just have to look in the
- 01:01:35right places and you'll find it we don't
- 01:01:37have to look East we just have to look
- 01:01:39Inward and the true path is is right
- 01:01:41here so we'll end with that
- Judaism
- Hinduism
- Monotheism
- Mysticism
- Reincarnation
- Purification
- Spirituality
- Sacred Texts
- Historical Connections
- Abraham