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Oh, do I teach Zohar and Kabbalah?
Uh I quote the Zohar
relatively often. I would say in most
lectures there's at least one time that
I quote the Zohar, most, not all.
Some I quote it much more than others,
but um
that's because the Zohar is not just
about Kabbalah. The Zohar is also has
different teachings of Halakha and also
Midrash. So, there's plenty of teachings
of the Zohar. If the Zohar over here,
you see there's plenty of books. It's
not just Kabbalah Ma'asit makes you fly
in the air and see all types of
angels
to to play with. There's a lot more to
the Zohar than people think. That's
number one. As far as Kabbalah, Kabbalah
in general, real Kabbalah is not taught
by anybody publicly. It's not supposed
to be taught by anybody publicly. Uh
but again, there's different levels of
Kabbalah. Uh
the the Kabbalah that most people
referring to, which is the
supernatural spiritual stuff, that's not
something that's to be taught to the
public. There are lower levels of
Kabbalah uh that talk about specific
names, help people with uh specific
prayers, uh specific understandings,
deeper meanings to things. That you
know, if with the right crowd, you can
teach it. But again, uh you have to be
very very careful. You have to be very
selective. And certainly you have to
have a rabbi that is much greater than
you and you could ever be that is going
to direct you of what you do and how you
do it. Anyone that uh uh
does it with all of that in mind, uh
certainly is going to go in the right
path. Anyone that does it on their own
as their Lone Ranger type of guy where
they're just simply teaching whatever
they feel is necessary and they're
writing books about it, all type of
stuff, usually you'll see those people
uh go astray where on one end they're
saying the holy names of God and holy
names of angels and other end they have
uh you know, all types of immodest
pictures on their websites and their
Facebook posts, which obviously the two
contradict each other. So, people like
that that delve into the
you know, the the upper level of Torah
uh but without the right formula,
usually you'll see them contradict each
other and make themselves and a public
disgrace. And this happens over time.
I've seen it uh plenty of times. There's
some people that have
uh contacted me over the years asking me
if I want to be involved in such things
or they wanted to, I don't know,
befriend me or whatever it was,
uh but as soon as I knew who it was or I
I saw, I do some checks before I usually
talk to people, I see that uh you know,
these things are involved, I simply stay
away. I don't even have a conversation.
So, Kabbalah in general, again, there's
different levels. The highest level of
Kabbalah is not taught in public.
