Rabbi Mendel Kaplan is the founder and spiritual leader of Chabad @ Flamingo in Thornhill, Ontario, he also serves as a Chaplain of the York Regional Police Service.
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I am a 71 year old active Christian who has since a little child done as Rabbi Kaplan has said, I have been filled with ripple of joy surging through me when ever I saw something Jewish. This web site will greatly increase my ability to learn even more about our Creator's world and about the people He says are the apple of His eyes. I have been to Dachu and to Jerusalem and area around it just before the 6 Day War. Our speaker also is filled with the spirit and is alive with passion for our Creator. May I ask him to consider that when G_d made Adam to begin with that He put a first breath of life into him just like all of the other creation. But with Man, G_d breathed the second Breath of Real Life into Adam. Re his rib comment, I agree fully. G_d took half out of him and that included attributes. We quip, "Meet my other half" when we should realize it to mean, "Meet the other Spiritual half of me that G_d selected to give to me." LaChaim.
Posted By Bill Kelley, Tifton, Georgia,USA
Posted: May 4, 2010
Afterlife
This was an interesting lecture but improperly titled "Kabbalah on the Afterlife." Although the Rabbi introduces some nice Kabbalistic ideas, he really didn't speak much about the afterlife. I wish that he would have.
Posted By Anonymous, los angeles, ca
Posted: Mar 11, 2010
The human soul
This was a wonderful class to listen to. I have to argue that the claim that animals domestic and wild did not die in the tsunami is not true, since a few did but perhaps they were too ill or old to get away from the water when it came. But it's true that they knew. This is well documented and based in fact. I wonder if they will know when the moshiach comes before we know. <G>
In the beginning of time, G-d blows a soul into a body of clay and thus creates man. So, too, will it be at the end of time. Join Rabbi Kaplan as he expounds upon this wondrous fusion of body and soul.
