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