The Origins of the Dybbuk - How the Kabbalah Transformed Possession & Exorcism of the Evil Dead

Possession by demonic forces is probably older than civilization. Yet, a curious shift happened in Jewish history. After nearly 1000 years pass with no virtually no demonic possession narratives in Judaism, a new form of possession emerges in the 16th century - the Dybbuk. In this episode I trace the history and development of the Dybbuk in the Kabbalah. From the transformation of the souls of sinners into demonic powers, the process of reincarnation (gilgul) and impregnation (ibbur), and polypsychism the development of the Dybbuk is truly extraordinary and frighting. Also, make sure to check out the other videos in this collaboration!
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[@littleswol1]

Great video Dr Sledge. I would love if you did something on R Yehuda Fatiyah. Hey was a late 19th century into the 20th century Rabbi. He has a fascinating book called ‘Minchat Yehuda’ and although most of it is commentary on the Tanakh it does have parts about him and different spirits that inhabit his fellow Jews. Still one of my favorite books. Love your content man 💯

[@pattiroberts5078]

Thank you, may ypu hit a well deserved million, soon!

[@chrisball3778]

It's really, really great that there's somebody on KZbin treating deeply strange ideas from the past as seriously as the people who held them did. Some ideas turn out to be philosophical 'dead ends,' but it's still fascinating to try to grasp the thought processes that lead some very smart people down those alleys. I now desperately want to see that 1937 Dybbuk movie.

[@tara5742]

Dr. Sledge! Hearing about how as a kid you looked up the creepy books referenced in H. P. Love craft books, and how you own a burnt piece of the Crowley estate has driven me to go back and watch all the back log videos of yours that I haven’t seen yet. Your quick wit and hilarious yet very relatable stories that you give in interviews shows such a fun side of you. I can’t wait to see what else you put out into the world. A valuable video would be rating useful second languages as someone getting into esotericism based on the lack of (good)English translations. Or valuable second languages based on paths within esotericism. Just an idea for us English only viewers that want to take the leap in the name of a lifetime of study. ~ Sending warmth from the suburbs of Seattle

[@jessicaclakley3691]

What a fantastic suggestion asking for useful/relatively necessary languages as they relate to esoteric references! I’ve always been slightly taken aback and honestly intimidated by how much of the information just hasn’t been translated into English (and my poor excuse for Spanish could barely decipher road signs lol)

[@amberinthebox4462]

This guy owns that property? The Crowley property that went up in flames? He owns it? Holy cow. I didnt know that. Lol I had thought about buying it. Lol

[@loganl3746]

As someone with fibromyalgia, which is poorly understood even by modern medicine, I can totally see how people could believe in possessions and the clinging dead. I have constant burning all-over pain, joint pain, mental fog, memory issues. Funnily enough, like a vampire, sunlight even hurts my skin! (It's either the UV or the infrared, idk). Sometimes I get so frustrated about it, I could see myself believing it's a demon or something.

[@chromaticsdesigns869]

You should look at Jinn possession and see if that's what you have. Islam is given it in a very simple way.

[@loganl3746]

@@chromaticsdesigns869 I've already converted once in my life. That's enough for me ✡️

[@chromaticsdesigns869]

@@loganl3746 I didn't tell you to convert. I wanted to tell you to you to check with the muslims, like going to a mosque or something. Anyways if you interested to just check if you have a problem I can explain how.

[@loganl3746]

@@chromaticsdesigns869 oh, I'm sorry. I misunderstood. My bad

[@allamerican5127]

@@chromaticsdesigns869 Can you just tell the spirit you are not Jewish and don’t believe in it

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Make sure to check out the other episodes in this Collab: @Angela's Symposium - kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHK0oWOeqb6Jhbs @Let's Talk Religion - kzbin.info/www/bejne/noHMmYWlgrusl6s @The Modern Hermeticist - kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2LJg4Kads2BiqM

[@2Day0111]

“Clay dungeons”… love it! Have not heard that one before, very appropriate. Thank you for continuing to share your knowledge with us!

[@deltasyn7434]

Personally speaking, I am an agnostic. But I cannot deny how fascinating it is to learn about this stuff.

[@MikeInHalifax]

That's no fun. ☺

[@Raelven]

I have to say, years ago I briefly (two years worth or so), studied Kabbalah, even studied the Zohar under Rabbinical tutelage. This presentation was nothing like what I learned there. This one makes a lot more sense. Actually, this was incredibly eye-opening, on many levels. Thank you! 👍👍

[@rickardandersson1887]

Wonderful to see religion (so not only your channel) be taught to the public from a scholarly view.

[@babyface3396]

My bf and I recently watched the movie "Attachment," sort of a horror/love story featuring a LOT of Kabbalistic magic/ritual. I would love to know how much they got right from a historical perspective, and how much was altered for the sake of the movie! Idk if you ever considered doing reaction style vids before, or if you're interested in examining these ideas as they are portrayed in media, but I'd definitely watch something like that. :)

[@MoorishMonitor]

Insightful video as usual. Happy (upcoming) Halloween, Beltane, Samhain, All Saints Day, etc! - The Moorish Science Monitor ✌🏾🇲🇦🤚🏾

[@Rokhl.K]

Loved the Dybbuk (1938) shout out at the end. Superb content, as usual, Justin!

[@star_punk-zero8049]

You know you got a good channel when you can call the exorcism in the Greek Magical Papyri generic

[@juliaboon9741]

16:30 reminds me of a moderately new phenomenon called “soaking” (not Mormon soaking!) where a certain sect of charismatic Christians lie on-top or near the graves of good people to “soak in” the grace/exultation etc. of the dead person. History repeats itself.

[@kylesmith1408]

Wonderful work Dr. Sledge! Thank you for exploring the Occult in a careful and thoughtful manner. Baruch Hashem! Shalom Aleichem.

[@roxanneconner7185]

You're too good for KZbin. This is fantastically informative and spooky, I will be checking out the play and film!

[@sg3655]

OMG I got to know about your channel through Let's Talk Religion!! Love the collab and content!

[@skinheadoconnor8721]

Wonderful video as usual. Thanks so much Dr. Sledge. Happy spooky season

[@MikeInHalifax]

A lot of Dybbuk Box lore us entering pop culture. Many a horror story nowadays begins with the acquisition of and opening of a Dybbuk box then continues with the haunting or possession of some malevolent spirit

[@Kate-hh8yi]

There's just something unsettlingly exciting, the way you say "existential dread" ☠️

[@christopherall1004]

Great lecture on one of my favorite types of ghosts, can't wait to see what you have reserved before Halloween

[@trashcatlinol]

Something here reminded me of a prayer my great grandmother would say every night before bed: ''As I lay me down to sleep, I pray the lord my soul to keep. And if I die before I wake, I pray the lord my soul to take.'' I wonder if keeping the soul wasn't a sort of evolution towards the prevention of demonic possession? I know my grandma wasn't super obsessed with the concept like people are now, though she was very religious to the point of bigotry. She was catholic, and it always seemed to me they held on to quite a bit of mysticism, but my family had quite a few people who claimed to have religious visions, and we have some sort of extra sensory powers... though we also have a lot of autism, so some of our predictive ability can be explained. Knowing the moment a family member close to us has passed is a little harder to explain. But I felt my dad in a life threatening situation, so it's not like I haven't experienced what my other family members are talking about. Timing and everything. I got physically nauseous over it at that time because of the panic it induced. First ever panic attack I had, and it had no discernable trigger. I had a dreadful feeling until I got home and we got the news. Found out about the time of accident later being the time of the class period I had my panic attack. It was like an answer to the invisible problem I had...but man... my dad was lucky to be alive, and everyone who knew what happened or saw the wreck would tell you so. I find your channel very interesting, as it's interesting to see some of our stranger quirks reflected in old literature, and even find some echoes like this. It's interesting to see how human belief has evolved over time, and leaves me wondering what we lost. And what we might rediscover if we find a way to measure what's unexplainable now. What I experienced may have been called a possession at one point in history, where it's called stress in my time. Wonder what it might really be?

[@ghostfool8376]

Just discovered this channel and I cant stop watching! Great videos :)

[@skylarjon3464]

Every notification from this channel is an absolute joy. Very excited to watch this one 🙏

[@marcel75137]

Fascinating work. Thank you!

[@lorenzoc.b.9809]

I wonder if Frank Herbert could be inspired by these ideas for the 'abomination' in his Dune saga, in which a person with the memories of their ancestors is possesed by one of them who had a strong will and personality.

[@riassslave558]

another brilliant topic & agreed, The Dybbuk perfect for this time of year follow it up with the just plain eerie ; a true existential dread in Mario Bava's 1966 Kill, Baby Kill which takes the Dybbuk as an obvious starting point being as his father would most likely been involved as a camera operator & camera fx designer as he was one of very few to choose that were confidant in the use of the emerging telephoto lens & film to record on practically since films inception the Bava's & Argento's have been involved in Europe and such 'technicians rarely got recorded who beyond director & lighting & sound once it was able to be included..Great episode!👻👹

[@marlifords4026]

Wow! I've just discovered your channel, Thank you it's great , everything, presentation, content, your wit and new knowledge to me.

[@mmbell]

Maybe one of the most interesting and educational channel on this site 🖤

[@ADAMOLOGY]

I so enjoyed this. Very academic and straight forward

[@TheOneSpoops]

this was a fascinating video, thank you!

[@MISSINTERSTELLAR]

THANK YOU DR JUSTIN SLEDGE YOU ARE AMAZING. Thank you for all these lectures and videos. Your humour is supreme, many many thanks.

[@Scrumpetsheep]

As a child, learned about the Dybbuk through the cartoon "rugrats" The main character has jewish grandparents and they tell him the story of the Dybbuk.

[@blynch2117]

I love your halloween episodes Dr. Sledge. Keep doing what you do 👍👍👍👍

[@TheCynthiaRice]

Came over from Let's Talk Religion...and just subscribed...

[@cilanthropetunia]

Adore your channel always.

[@naomiseraphina9718]

Thank you, Dr. Sledge, as always, for your sterling work as a researcher, teacher, and presenter! Your channel has enriched my life greatly with the knowledge and insight you've made available to the curious public. It is my opinion that the theories and beliefs regarding the dybbuk phenomenon may well be true. I base this belief primarily upon my own experiences, and the experiences of my family and our family friends, that began when my father moved into a very haunted house many years ago. My sister and I were children, and the time we spent there was always overshadowed by eerie and disturbing events and sensations that seemed to emanate from a malevolent presence that lurked about that location. Both children and adults were subject to frightening encounters with disembodied presences, horrific nightmares, levitations and other unpleasantness. Over time, we all came to believe that we were being plagued and interfered with by a spirit that belonged to an evil man, who though deceased, was nonetheless active. Disgustingly, there was often a sexual element to the types of attacks to which people were subjected, as if this revenant were able to feed upon the energy produced by our fear and by our sense of violation. Of course, we ourselves were not pious, and were not Jewish (except for my father's second wife) so maybe that is why we were so vulnerable? Perhaps it would have helped had we converted? Who knows. I personally believe that this phenomenon is universal and takes place in cultures all over the world, and that it is known by many different names. I only share this creepy reminiscence to illustrate why I believe that the rabbinical exorcists may have been quite right in their beliefs. The dead can be aggressive toward the living, and some of the dead are perverted bastards indeed. Thankfully, none of us were ever possessed outright, but the things we experienced were definitely enough to ruin one's day, and they left us all with enough nightmare fuel to last a lifetime. In short, dybbuks are the absolute pits! Here's hoping that somebody finds a remedy for them and that he or she then shares it with the rest of the world. A lot of people will rest more easily once such a breakthrough has been achieved. My sincere apologies for the long and rambling comment. I didn't mean to go on so, and I hope that what I shared wasn't too personal or repulsive. All the best to you, and may you be blessed with a life free from all manner of spectral interlopers! Sincerely, --N

[@Rikki-Tikki-Tavi]

This is so interesting. You have yourself a new subscriber. ❤️

[@rmt3589]

Man! I wish I could just sit with you and discuss this topic on recording! This description of reincarnation matches my theory, just in different words. Where part of the spiritual body, as I call the Kami, can be adopted, either automatically or artificially, from the akashic records. Basically, think of a computer as the body. We have the soul, the spirit, and the Kami. The Kami is like a backup harddrive of whatever's on the main harddrive. Reincarnation is someone else's harddrive being installed.

[@jalawto]

I saw the title and thought I'd come and say this reminds me of the beginning scene of A Serious Man! Great movie!

[@YoelFievelBenAvram]

Whenever I hear the teaching that sleep is 1/60th of death and dreams are 1/60th of prophecy, I always wish more was said that this is the ratio of nullification.

[@zenosAnalytic]

great episode! I wish we knew more about gaelic concepts of reincarnation so we could gauge what, if any, influence it had on Mediterranean beliefs.

[@angelofthelight6650]

I appreciate the recommendations of reading material 28:28 seconds time stamp I will be ordering these and reading them for myself thank you.

[@GooeyGremlin]

Immediately had to watch this.

[@mazyar_]

Fantastic. Can you give a few pointers towards the relation between Dybbuk and the Kelipot and Sitra Achra? And another question if you don't mind: Is the animation of the Golem a form of Ibbur or Dybbuk? or is it an entreily different kind of beast? Thanks

[@ZBott]

My first exposure to word Gilgul was from Mage: The Ascension as a punishment. It's yet another word years later I learned as used by White Wolf publishing backwards and probably insultingly. It's nice to know this definition of the cycle or in relationship to reincarnation.

[@coballard5334]

What would be the reverse... possession of an unwanted soul or removal of a soul?

[@JoseDeJesus-gi3oh]

Owh rea ouy ym endfri

[@thomtisher]

Excellent, interesting, spooky ... thank you.

[@kungstu22]

Anyone else catch Dr. Sledge on Flightless Bird this week? Very cool comments re: Halloween. Well worth the listen. Makes me want to throw an old-school Bogie (sp?) Book party with the green lights and dressing rooms...

[@WildBillCox13]

Most interesting. Shared.

[@snowstephenanderson801]

Very interesting....

[@kagitsune]

I was watching Dimension 20's old "Unsleeping City" game, and one of the kind NPC's is the Williamsburg Gollem who recruits you to dispel some Dybbuk. I didn't know what they were, but here you are just uploading this video! ^__^ Thanks, Dr. Sledge. Also oh my goodness those Talmudic depictions of demons are ADORABLE, we need a cartoon, stat 🤣

[@maxmeggeneder8935]

Thank you!

[@Mdme.X]

Thank you for taking time to share your knowledge. I began collecting religious books over the years. Sadly, some were borrowed/not returned- notably out of print book on Gnosticism. *Have you ever done a collectors book list for people like myself?* Thank you✌

[@sergiolinares8227]

Thank you muhiem

[@kaminsrocks]

Wonderful as always. Thank you for your hard work and research. If I may, I believe I found a slight error. The image that you show for the 1937 film The Dybbuk (around 9 minutes in) is actually not from that film. It's actually a still of actress Hanna Rovina from the 1920 production of The Dybbuk at the Habima Theater which was then located in Moscow. I believe the images you show at 18:00 and 22:00 are from the 1937 film starring Lili Liliana as Leah. The image at 27:40 is Hanna Rovina again with that amazing set design.

[@genghisgalahad8465]

[Edit: my silly input aside which I should have waited until actually watching and listening, an important facinating and ultimately heavy sobering topic delivered succinctly by Dr Justin Sledge!] My popular culture medium introduction to the Dybbuk is the intriguing Jeffrey Dean Morgan starring film and realizing there are earlier films over time had me thinking The Dybbuk is like the King Kong of esoteric horror films. The Golem as a subject has yet to be as prolific in its cinematic portrayals! (My insightful comment: Dybbuk...like King Kong.)

[@genghisgalahad8465]

I love this topic coverage that sheds light on the cultural origins of what we know popularly of possession that traces to Judaism rightly beyond present day assumption that it's overwhelmingly the milieu of Christianity specifically Catholicism.

[@ninJ0N38]

The crazy thing about that necromantic practice of sleeping on graves was popular in ancient Celtic Druid circles.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Source?

[@picklemuncher99]

Great video! I was wondering if you’d ever do a video on Zoroastrian influence on abrahamic religion?

[@RoseBleueDuRosierSec]

The slot machine analogy was both very easy to understand and really funny

[@naomiseraphina9718]

Thanks!

[@astrogypsy]

"Clay dungeons": Doc, you're a treasure.

[@johnnewton8017]

Agreed.

[@anthonywall5227]

Thank you

[@PathOfAvraham]

Interesting topic! What are the major differences between Rambams understanding of the ruah, nefesh, neshema vs. the Zohars explanation?

[@Runsinwaves]

Ty

[@grimmdm1]

I really wish you would transfer the audio from your episodes into a podcast format…

[@MichaelAlberta]

Baruch Hashem!

[@Davlavi]

very cool.

[@cristosmagillio1950]

Thanks again for the good content. I had an idea yesterday, and it seems viable. The navajo skinwalker might be related to dybbuk. The great evil one must perform to become skinwalker should also be great enough evil to pull the soul out of that cycle of reincarnation. Is this seem like its correct or did i miss something

[@jeremysmith4620]

Gosh, could you even imagine being born a slave, or even worse, a woman? I am still taken aback when hearing some of these things because of just the way it's phrased. Thanks Doc for really making esoteric history come alive and be profoundly entertaining. Your channel really is such a treasure and balances humor, knowledge, and real passion for these subjects. Biz hundert un tsvantsik!

[@didack1419]

I'm gonna say that it was not worse to be born a woman than being born a slave, in general. Accounts since Antiquity show that people took advantage of owning those people (the slaves) and very often mistreated them, most of them definitely did by our standards. That's what happens when people have complete control over someone else. It was not the same for women because they were not owned in the way slaves were, and it was consider bad to treat a woman the ways people could treat slaves. The advantages that male slaves had is that they could be freed and they could live by themselves, but those were the lucky ones.

[@jeremysmith4620]

@@didack1419 Is was meant sarcastically because it is such an outrageous statement. I even began it with "gosh" to hit the point home that is wasn't serious in the least. Even in the very next sentence that I am still stunned when hearing thing such as that. I'm not sure if you just read the first sentence and decided to comment or what, but I tried to make it pretty obvious and even stated as that I am shocked by it. I do have to address something you say though. The following line that you use, "It was not the same for women because they were not owned in the way slaves were, and it was consider bad to treat a woman the ways people could treat slaves," is not exactly true. In many, I would even go so far as to say most ancient cultures, and right on up until the modern era in some places, that women were always considered the property of their father or husband and treated as such. They were made to work with no pay, they were made to bear children under no choice of their own, they were made to marry someone outside of their choosing, and were meant to be subservient in every way in many (again, most) nations/city states. The various punishments for not submitting to these things almost identically mirrored the punishments suffered by slaves. Both were property and treated as such. Stepping out of line often lead to corporal punishment or worse depending on the transgression. Many women actually had it worse than some slaves in a few cultures as women were put to death via "mercy killing" when they were the victims of some crimes. So while my original comment was meant in jest, your subsequent misunderstanding of said comment does also highlight the plight that women faced in many societies that did mirror many of the horrors faced by slaves. This is only comparing male slaves to "free" women. Female slaves are a wholly different story and quite frequently had it worst of all, but that is a topic that would expand this post even further than it already is, so I'll have to put a pin in that. I just wanted to make very clear the intention of my original post. It should be clear upon reading, but just in case I wanted to make it abundantly clear that I don't believe being a woman is somehow "worse" than being as slave. The two are difficult to separate completely in many ancient societies and I did want to highlight those similarities to address the plight and abuse of both slaves and women.

[@didack1419]

@@jeremysmith4620 I don't understand sarcasm in comments because I've seen people saying incredibly stupid things seriously on the Internet (Poe's law). You didn't make it nearly sarcastic enough, for real, I'm not joking. It still reads to me like a serious statement for the standards of our meta-ironic Internet. I know that the woman was the man's property. I still think my statement is true in general because of double standards. I've seen many accounts of people mistreating their slaves even when they did comply and did their job, while physical punishments were (as far as I know) not the common rule for women that did what they were told. Of course, there were abusers regardless, but the difference, from what I've seen, is that it was socially accepted to abuse slaves in ways that were not so common for women, as long as they agreed to do what they were told, at least.

[@didack1419]

@@jeremysmith4620 I've even seen people saying that slavery in ancient times was mostly fine and that it was different than in Modernity. People that for some reason love the Roman Empire to the point of getting mad at others for saying stuff.

[@rickwrites2612]

@@didack1419 It wasn't fine but it not the same at all as the Atlantic slave trade, which was an apartheid system of chattel slavery based on visual it known ethnicity only and future generations were born into slavery ad Infinitum without any hope. No other slavery has ever done this. Slavery is normally opportunistic resulting from poverty or war. Roman slavery was way more varied and it was much more like being a woman at the time (whose limitations also depended on both her class and the specific men she was related to) or like the modern phenomenon of the indentured irish sent to US (which was also terrible, ppl were raped and killed and for ed to serve beyond their bond, BUT that is not the same thing as color based apartheid chattel slavery transmitted from parent to child forever). A Roman slave could literally be anyone. On one end they could literally be indistinguishable from a man going to a job as an accountant, and having almost all his needs met (a home, a stipend, wife and kids are all free), one could sell themself into slavery or be bought out of slavery , slaves in many cases was had the option of bring bought freedom by themselves or others. You had a price and you could buy it. A slave could and did marry free people, the children of slaves were not slaves, etc. It was more like a class status. Yiu could be a bounty of war ie Germanic "barbarian". You could be a child and be trusted like a siblings or disgustingly beaten and molested. And really, so could anyone's wife. Though punishment for women tends to be more ritualized, and alot depended on her personal power with the men in her life. An aristocrat widow with a teenage son and protected by her powerful benevolent homosexual uncle (her son his heir) might be a power in her own right. The rebellious daughter of a working class dad who has limited power himself and got pressure by society to control her, she could be treated pretty badly.

[@rhondadearborn3265]

Do todays practitioners still believe in possession and reincarnation? As a 50 ish Jewish woman growing up in conservative Judaism, I’ve never heard about any of this. Love your channel.😊

[@snowstephenanderson801]

oh yeah the Lilith one is super interesting...Thanks Doc...

[@DarkSaber-1111]

Kabbahla seems to have taken some ideas from animism, especially with the idea of the soul having multiple parts or that a person can have multiple souls. spiritual pregnation is also an idea from animistic beliefs like spirit families and spirit spouses.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Pretty doubtful I think.

[@DarkSaber-1111]

@@TheEsotericaChannel probably but the overlaps are interesting.

[@KyleFromSouthParkCA]

That picture of the dybbuk depicted as a shawl over a skeleton over a mans back is really scary. If you zoom in on the shawl where the skull and the spine go inside it, it looks like some kind of winged bat creature like a cenomorph or a symbiote from spiderman the ribcage of the skeleton even looks like sharp teeth and if you look close at the folds above the teeth it has a cycopular eye

[@CarolineVigneron71]

Hello, very interesting, thanks! I'm particularly interested in the process that involves the inhabitation of a righteous soul by another righteous soul. It makes me think of some shamanic technics that involve an ancestral spirit, sometimes the spirit of a deceased shaman, to possess temporarily (during ceremonies) the body of a living shaman, so that the ancestral spirit may provide information or perform healing (and in the meantime teach the shaman who's in the flesh, by showing how to do the work). There are such tells in the Toungouz tradition, also in theosophy (being overshadowed) and mediumship... Nowadays, I wonder if some cases of "channeling" might be the new way to speak of such phenomena (in a less scary way than by using the word posession)?

[@hopelessone15]

Sort of like Haitian Vodou where the lwa posses someone to give the community special knowledge.

[@gratefulblac]

How do you understand the story of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov - The Lame One? - What is the meaning in that story of the Sun and Moon meeting to discuss their problems and the threat of the demons? Is there a source for the idea of a demon being able to take away a human being strength to be given to one of their own?

[@star_punk-zero8049]

Fantastic video as always Justin. I am concerned what certain corners of internet would do with the concepts of soul impregnations tho lol. Anyway you mentioned how Judaism after the rise of Christianity largely shunned or buried the concept of malevolent possession but were there any notable accounts of possession before the rise of the dybbuk or was such events largely ignored?

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Check out my two part history of Judaism and possession for just that answer

[@star_punk-zero8049]

Ooh thank you

[@headsink]

The first time I heard Dybbuk was from the movie A Serious Man.

[@RobinLynnGriffith]

New sub here...TY 🤩

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Welcome!

[@jaels4818]

Justin, are there any books and articles on this subject you'd recommend?

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Watch to the end?

[@jaels4818]

@@TheEsotericaChannel Ah yeah, I see it now. May you put those recommendations in the video description please?

[@gregcampwriter]

A righteous soul inhabiting another body to correct a wrong--a see a TV series here, perhaps with Dean Stockwell and Scott Bakula starring.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Throwback

[@thomasdoubting]

The prayer of thanks for not beeing a woman, genteal or a slave, seem quite fundamental, to me as an outsider.🤔 If your a jew, christian or muslim you wich the best possible outcome for youre self: eternal life... 😇 ...And you expect death, or worse, for me. 🔥 So, how should we treat each other❓️

[@snowstephenanderson801]

Wow...how very interesting....yep

[@rottendeadite]

Did somebody say "Evil Dead?" Groovy.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Work shed

[@Volundur9567]

Bro looking like a Jewish Rasputin. Y'all content is epic

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

"Jewish Rasputin" is my grindcore band

[@Volundur9567]

@@TheEsotericaChannel yass!

[@TheModernHermeticist]

so dybbuk is connected to devekut too?

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Yep same shoresh - even the modern hebrew for glue

[@travelchannel304]

Hmm..similar to Noahs flood is what i sensed about Katrina Hurricane (esp in New Orleans area.) African Ancestors reclaiming their descendants back since those in charge weren't really helping evacuate soon enough while they were living.

[@isacvlad]

🙏

[@Ishay7227]

נראה מגניב

[@Gonzalez169]

Very interesting. A question. Why are dybbuks contained in boxes? How do they escape such boxes?

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

There's no historical folklore of 'dybbuk boxes' - that's a recent development.

[@jeanettewaverly2590]

Holy cow!

[@corpmemberncccace2402]

❤❤❤

[@el-elel5022]

Wouldn't allowing the dead to speak from one's own mouth render one as being a Yidoni?

[@derelbenkoenig]

27:14 wait a sec, that DBK root meaning "binding", is that also related to the root of "deveikut"? or is it a coincidence

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Yep, some shoresh...in modern Hebrew for 'glue' even.

[@helenbostock2350]

Hum

[@laurisafine7932]

17:20 What is the reference/source of the "morning blessings" mentioned ie. "of being a man, not a woman nor slave"?

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

www.sefaria.org/sheets/83436?lang=bi

[@laurisafine7932]

@@TheEsotericaChannel Thank you. What would this be dated to?

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Late classical world

[@theprecipiceofreason]

I like this soul soup idea. Pick your ingredients and make your human dish. Gastronomy doesn't get a good turn in most Abrahamic lore - quite the opposite

[@nihilexmachina8925]

Maybe God drowned people in the Flood because they knew some crucial and dangerous truth about Him, and spared Noah because he didn't. Perhaps God saved Noah for his specific ignorance, not for his special knowledge?

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Pretty sure it was just a mesopotamian myth

[@joshnim]

Faith in the Emperor is the only way

[@tedhand6237]

Why the heck do horror movies that feature the Dybbuk always have a "Dybbuk Box?" Is that even a thing?

[@chables74]

Algormancy!