Becker Bible Teacher Resources

Hasidisim is really a way of embracing the world, while at the same time recognizing that our job is to spiritualize the material; because, there is a fundamental tension between matter and spirit, and between the inner and the outer, between survival and self-interest, and serving a higher purpose.  You have to find a way to integrate the two.  Secret World of Hasidisim, Rabbi Simon Jacobsen  SOHO Lower Manhattan Synagogue

What it means to be Hasidim is not just taking a thing for granted, this is how it's supposed to be, ...you're supposed to keep Shabbat, eat Kosher, be kind, more belief in God, study. But a Hasidim is trying to infuse all that with the soul and the spirit. You try to create a seamless bridge between what we would call physicality in spirituality, between body and soul, between heaven and earth, between matter and spirit, between us and God. Secret World of Hasidisim, Mental Jacobsen (Son of Rabbi Simon Jacobsen) SOHO Lower Manhattan Synagogue

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