Se'adya Gaon: The Geonic Pillar of Al-Andalus - Jackson Gardner (TALMID TAKEOVER)

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Yeyishar kochecha! Very good presentation, thank you.

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Great video achi but if i may add, as a fellow follower of the Geonic/Maimonidean derekh, always a good idea to double check current scientific data and ensure you understood Kabbalistic concepts in accordance with mainstream Kabbalah. Scientific research doesn’t reveal reincarnation exists but it also doesn’t rule it out. Some academics like Dr. Ian Stevenson and others have compelling evidence, enough to not be written off dismissively by the entire scientific world and rather considered controversial. Thus while it may not be an authentic part of our Masoret or perhaps reincarnation was a lost concept from Ma'ase Bereshit or Merkava, either way, one cannot just dismiss it as superstitious or nonesense (like we would magic) without looking into what some academics bring to the discussion first. I do agree that for those who acknowledge reincarnation exists, claiming x or y is the gilgul of ploni in Mikra is simply conjecture at best and shouldn't be taken as fact at all. Regarding the sefirot, see Shomer Emunim, preferably the edition by Rabbi Avinoam Fraenkel that the sefirot aren't God Himself, they’re a separate creation like the rest of us. Godhead isnt a term Mekubalim would even use. Please keep up the great work!