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5/31/25 – Shiur 515 – Is A Psychedelic Trip the Derech HaShem?

JL;DR SUMMARY The episode addresses the controversial topic of using psychedelic drugs for spiritual enhancement within Jewish communities, evaluating its efficacy and potential dangers. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Jewish EthicsTorah StudyJewish SpiritualityMental HealthHalachaPsychedelicsDrug UseTherapeutic PsychedelicsRabbinical PerspectivesAddiction Risks

Places mentioned

Yerushalayim, Jerusalem, Israel
"Now, and then we are going to speak together, a joint interview, Rabbi Akiva Dershowitz, the posaic, the Rosh Kolel of Torah's Ephraim Shlomo and Yerushalayim, together with Dr. Jacob Friedman."
Southern District, Israel
"Talking about both hashkafic and halachic issues that arise. Chronicle practice that have to do with the occult. And I don't have time to go through the whole experience with the God Al-Hadr, and this would have been in the mid-1980s."
Be'er Sheva, Southern District, Israel
"The program that I run in Be'er Sheva, one of the women there is they're in their, most of them are in their twenties, early thirties."
Central District, Israel
"And at the end of the show, we will hear our summary takeaways and lessons learned. Before we go to our guests, just to introduce our show, let's have a vort. We're going to take a step back to Parshas Bechukosai, talking in the Tochacha."
Bnei Brak, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"This program is under the umbrella of Ma'alot, which is a nonprofit organization that operates various, actually numerous, based medrash programs for people, separately for men and women with mental health challenges. Its women programs have spread from Be'er Sheva to Yerushalayim to B'nai Brak, to Rechovah, to Kiri Yikad, etc."
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