Rabbi Shais Taub on Addiction and Abuse
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2015
- One hundred and fifty orthodox Jews filled the main sanctuary of Chabad of Boca Raton on October 11 for a night of awareness and education of child abuse (CSA). The highly charged event served as an opportunity to show support to victims of abuse and to educate the public about the dangers of abuse.
Rabbi Shais Taub who is world renowned for his work and writings in the field of addiction recovery spoke movingly, drawing parallels and lessons from the Torah portions of Bereishit and Noach which we are reading now.
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It hit hard when he pointed out that those of us running from pain can’t stand even a moment of doing nothing. I feel that every day.
That was so clear and simply put. I really feel I need to get over myself
Amazing teaching. So blessed and inspired by it. Toda
wow! amazing rabbi
Thank you for this it really made me think (positively)
woooow this blew my mind
Spiritual Canaries. Most of them sexual trauma. It is amazing. This Rabbi gets it. I live in Mexico and treat addiction and eating disorders and I can agree his statistics are correct. Read his book God of our understanding
מדהים!! אנשים מבזבזים עשר עשרים שנים על הפרעות אכילה קשות ואף רופא לא מבין שמאחורי כל הטירוף מונחת התעללות מינית שאפילו לא תמיד הקורבן מודע לכך
היום למזלנו .... יש טיפולים שמונעים מאנשים ובמיוחד מנערות ונשים למות מהפרעה מסוכנת הזאת...
i think some addicts are battling the demons of sexual and or physical abuse and childhood neglect and use sex, gambling or drugs when they are triggered. They have issues with connections, bonds and trust and are suffering with loneliness and pain.
Ya think?
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Moshiach Now!!!!
Woody Allen is a talented artist who taught through his films. God can be a dove, God can be a distraction, Distraction can lead to God. We are all God experiencing himself.
Agree...expression OF that which is presently here, or, conspicuously absent, IS processing. Perhaps there are levels, and maybe we transcend, but we must be where are. Expression better than repression; the dis-ease of our time. Keep on Artist, and best to you.
Almost a confession
The word "humus" is Latin, but it has its origin in Greek. The Greek word for "humus" in both ancient and modern Greek is "χώμα" and means top soil. It comes from the ancient Greek verb "χώννυμι" which means accumulate. It is written that the Deity formed Adam from the "afar min ha-adamah" (dust of the earth). Is the serpent simply our Yetzer Ha-Ra (Evil Impulse)...? The serpent's punishment was to eat "afar" (dust) - Gen. 3:14; Isaiah 65:25. Does this mean that the punishment of the serpent (Evil Impulse) is to eat away at each of us, since we are made from the "afar min ha-adamah" (dust of the earth)...?
Hello, interesting comment, interesting perspective. Since leaving christianity, I have been able to de-mystify 'the devil', and I do see the evil inclination as the original interpretation. I see what you mean that you will eat the dust of the earth. There is a verse, but I am not sure if it is in the Torah or from the liar Paul, but it says that 'the devil roams the earth, seeking whom he may devour. Just throwing that out for you. What do you think? I'm still learning.
Railroad Reg - Forgive me for being verbose and long-winded, but you did ask for my thoughts.
What you've alluded to is 1 Peter 5:8, which translates from the Greek into English thusly:
"Be sober! Be vigilant! Because the Adversary, your Accuser (διάβολος), as a roaring lion, walks about (περιπατεῖ) seeking one to devour."
Hebraically, the Greek word "περιπατεῖ" alludes to the way one conducts their life. In other words, "περιπατεῖ" means that one "lives to do" such-and-such.
A rabbinic parallel to this verse would be, "The Evil Impulse does not proceed along the sidewalks, but in the middle of the highway. When it sees a man ogling with his eye, straightening his hair, and walking with a swaggering gait, it says, 'This person belongs to me!'" (Genesis Rabbah XXII, 6).
Did Zoroastrianism influence Judaism or did Judaism influence Zoroastrianism? It's an old debate. In his book, "Zoroastrianism and Judaism," George William Carter writes ( pp. 105-106), "... the main elements of the Zoroastrian faith were for the most part fixed before the Persian period of Jewish history, and ... there was probably no marked influence made by the Jews upon the Persian faith. The Jews, however, discovering that their rulers had many conceptions and teachings similar to, and others in advance of their own, would, in receiving and adopting them, easily deduce such teachings and conceptions from their own revelation, with no thought that they were borrowing. At any rate, later generations would think of them as purely Jewish beliefs."
Whatever the case, let's just say that the Jewish Sages tried to demythologize certain elements of Jewish folklore. Yes, even Paul had to contend with this, because his proto-Gnostic opponents made liberal use of Greek and Jewish folklore and Neo-Platonic musings in order to support their teachings. That's why Paul warned his readers to "... refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise yourself rather unto godliness" (1 Tim. 4:7).
In Judaism, the "celestial" Satan is merely the Prosecuting Attorney in the Heavenly Court, wherein he functions as a Servant of HaShem. We see a hint of this Jewish version of HaSatan in Rev. 12:10, "... the Accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our G-d day and night."
Sadly, the Xtian version of Satan has evolved into the dragon-esque fallen angel found in Milton's "Paradise Lost," who shouts, "It is better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven!" I think that most evangelical Xtians view Satan as being something akin to Al Pacino's character in the 1997 film, "The Devil's Advocate."
This Xtian version of Satan sounds rather like the Zoroastrian deity, Ahriman (lit. the "Hostlie/Evil Spirit", a.k.a. Angra Mainyu). This evil destructive spirit created a horde of demons to support him in his battle against his brother, the deity, Spenta Mainyu, the holy spirit, who protects the creation of the supreme deity, Ahura Mazdā.
Modern Zoroastrians have come to view Ahriman as being an allegory of mankind's evil proclivities. The Jewish Sages of the Second Temple period did much the same thing by putting a psychological spin on the popular notions about HaSatan.
In Talmud Bavli (Bava Batra 16a), we find the following: Resh Lakish said, "Satan, the Evil Impulse (Yetzer HaRa), and the Angel of Death are all one. He is called Satan, as it is written, 'And Satan went forth from the presence of the L-RD' (Job 2:7). He is called the Evil Imagination (Yetzer HaRa) [we know this because] it is written in another place, '[Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart] was only evil continually' (Gen. 6:5), and it is written here [in connection with Satan] 'Only upon himself put not forth thine hand' (Job 1:12). The same is also the Angel of Death, since it says, 'Only spare his life' (Job 2:6), which shows that Job's life belonged to him."
B'H.