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