Shalom! This video is about invoking all the five senses in developing your appreciation and understanding of Judaism, in coming closer to God. I got this idea when I was reading a book on Leonardo de Vinci, who the author says is the smartest man who ever lived, and the book is how to think like de Vinci.
Seven Steps to his being a genius like him and the third steps of the seven, was about the senses. It help de Vinci had very highly a tone senses. They continued to refine them, to develop their acuity
Well, after reading this, I was reading the Torah portion (foreign language) which has the Ten Commandments, the Smah(ph). The second, the first paragraph of the Smah Viahafta with all the beauty and significance have added.
I realize that I was reading the portion paying attention through de Vinci eyes there that it invokes all 5 senses very often. There are many, many forms of the word Rae to see. It talks about how idols do not taste or feel, smell, then I begin in the word “Smah(ph)” means here and then it begin just thinking about in Judaism all the way which are senses are invoke.
You can think about it some too, first of all sight. All the things that are visual. For how the place looks or the ritual objects that you see and you have experiences because of seeing them. And of course, hearing smah and the Brahah for hearing [ foreign language]. Well, the music that we have that affects us.
Smell the spices on the hot the time in Saturday night. They agent incense of the ancient of temple of thousand year ago. The whole notion of smelling like a Shabbat’s is cooking when you walk into a house and food being prepared or touching. When you touch the Mezuzah. When you touch the torah. When it is walks by.
The whole idea of nigea where you do not touch. I am tasting, the whole idea of crosier food and so, you have this senses invoke in Judaism is such a variety of ways. In fact, there are ancient mid rush about the law of edgrouge, which uses taste and smell that each one of the 4 parts of the Lola vinittro for the holiday at Sokote either had a taste or smell or both or neither and the Rabbi develop homilies about that.
And so in Judaism, we think about, you think about this too, all the way the senses are invoke because to truly love God and truly experience we after to use our senses and the more highly we develop them the more we appreciate it and so next time you have experience in Judaism think about which the senses is involve and add the spiritual layer to it to increase the spirit intentionality.
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