(Jul 31, 2022 06:37 AM)Kornee Wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYDKjfLHO8M
[...] Even bring in a (presumably Kabbalah mystical adherent type) rabbi who prayerfully rocks back and forth trying to 'open a portal' [...]
EXCERPT: "....there we invited Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok to try a more unorthodox experiment. While Rabbi Tzadok performed an ancient prayer that was supposed to open portals to other realms..."
Got problems? Flock to Tzadok. He can retroactively re-interpret the oldest ceremonies and treatises of Judaism for your contemporary needs. No eccentric challenge is too daunting.
https://mesora.org/TamarYonah.htm
excerpt: I cannot express how much the Torah disagrees with his views. Rabbi Bar Tzadok claimed reincarnation is an accepted, Torah view. He failed to inform your public that Rav Saadia Gaon, one of the most brilliant minds, called reincarnation “absurd” and “stupid”. Moshe Rabbeinu (Moses) speaks against it, as does Sforno.
But Rav Saadia Gaon did not leave it at that. Rav Saadia Gaon continues, using rationality to display those absurdities, which emanate from this belief in reincarnation. Rav Bar Tzadok went on discussing aliens, fallen angels, justifying terrorists as “victims”, and describing a “race of intelligent, terrestrial existences” other than man.