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By Yoseph Leib Ibn Mardachya

“In early 2001, I got here to Jerusalem,
just out of excessive school,
looking for an real non secular tradition
for tips on how to smoke marijuana
rightly, helpfully, extra effectively
and extra meaningfully.

What i discovered also and instead
was a dwelling tradition, wrestling with the mystery
of how one can include the ecstatic; and the
mystery of the explanations for it's repression,
along with loads of fabulous information and bad truths concerning the nature of faith, legislations, idealism and drugs.”

Cannabis Chassidis: the traditional and rising Torah of gear (A memoir) information the query and it's exploration: How may perhaps or not it's that whatever as inherent to trendy existence as Marijuana, whatever with a wealthy background of human utilization, has no culture in Torah, a counsel process that i used to be raised to appreciate as encompassing every little thing sturdy that one should still be aware of? there are solutions for what's there within the culture, wealthy allusions to herbs and smokes utilized in assorted capacities, and the extra attention-grabbing solutions and questions are approximately what there isn't within the culture, and why.

And alongside the way in which, the spectrum of an adventure of residing mystical culture is explored, and the romantic idealization and redemptive power of either Psychedelia and faith are touched and felt deeply, within the context of exceptional groups and people who have skilled the glories and the disasters of both.

Join Yoseph Leib on his travels and reviews all through Jerusalem, ny, and Rainbow nation U.S.A, looking for suggestions approximately how hashish and psychedelics have and feature no longer been utilized in either historic and rising Hassidic traditions, and what the best way we've got relating to our wishes for medications, gods, and intoxicants can train us approximately how we relate to ourselves, our group, and our G-d. the fantastic challenge of the way what we will be able to examine can set us loose, in every kind of how.

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And his promise17. Someone else in the world will always be focused on ways to make money, and ways to be healthy, so learn Their ways as far that, Jewish tradition tells us. The uniqueness of the path of Israel is for focusing on what no one else will bother focusing on: The secret meaning behind everyday things, that others couldn’t see because they were too invested in their Idol. Learn wisdom from all the nations; learn medicine from all the scholars. The job of Israel is not to make new Idols, but to show you what the old ones really meant, back when they were alive, and point to the God that’s hiding right there behind them.

Snuck into an empty room on the side, it was one of the strangest sleeps I would ever have, where I kept waking up feeling mysterious presences and gazing out to the door. Came the morning. I woke, got up and out, and by the time I was a block from the place, looked back, and couldn't for the life of me imagine how to get back where I'd just come from... , Lithuanian style Yeshiva learning is pretty much the norm is the religious, non-exctatic, only peripherally mystical Orthodox Jewish world. Rooted in a model of argument and legalism, it’s become the standard by which scholarship is measure in Orthodox Judaism, and is the staid, neo-proper and “normal” foil to Hassidism’s irrational ethical baccanalia.

Consistent things you can do to provide a desired effect? Chas v’ Shalom16. That was the great hope of science, religion and civilization, of contract and enforcement: that we could figure out how to get what we wanted from the world. Try some of this and your problem will be solved. But as Buckminster Fuller once testified, science cannot tells us anything but the pattern that has been witnessed; and novelty will always come and disrupt, and surprise and confuse the pattern. This is G-d’s Fuck you!

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