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God. OK. I don't know what God is all about.
There's a famous saying from the Kotzker Rebbe, who was one of the famous Hasidic masters, who said that, “I wouldn't want to have a God that I really understood.”
I'm sort of in the same boat with that. I don't know what God is all about.
My own spiritual experiences, I've come into touch with my soul. I've had experiences where I believe that I was touching upon the divine.
I think it's ... I think we have to believe, obviously because there's no really understanding God and how he works.
But on the other hand , we can have some communication, and touch upon God through our own souls, our Neshamot, as we call them in Hebrew.
What is Jewish spirituality?
I would define it as finding God through the mitzvot. Jews were ordained. They received the Torah on Har Sinai, on Mount Sinai, and given a very special path, a way of coming close to the divine, which is through the Torah and the mitzvot.
I believe when one performs the mitzvot, when a person does the commandments, whether it's physical commandments like tallits and tefillin;
or it's spiritual, it’s more like tzedakah, charity;
the Torah is really a spiritual path. And if it's looked upon it that way, as a ladder to climb upon to touch the divine ...
if you approach the Torah and mitzvot in a way that you're using it as a spiritual path - you're opening yourself up to receive Hashem's divine blessing - then it can facilitate that.