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@gabrielleangelica1977

2 жыл бұрын

Already subscribed! 👍

Wonderful working together again, Filip - I'm so blessed to call you both colleague and friend!

@jacovawernett3077

2 жыл бұрын

Neshama. Malkut. Schlama. 11

@blazingstar9638

2 жыл бұрын

So grateful for you guys! Thank you!

@maiacorbin7879

2 жыл бұрын

This wholesome content

@ewadsworth

2 жыл бұрын

😍

@leighcecil3322

Жыл бұрын

Namista 🙏

thanks so much!! as a descendent of syrian and egyptian jews, this content is verrrrrry much up my alley. really appreciate you highlighting the shared culture between muslims and jews in the arab world.

@abrecfajardo3378

2 жыл бұрын

yes this a beautiful form of mysticism, there are non senses like gigul, misunderstanding the scriptures according to christians visions hidden under an Ashkenazi hasidic optic, etc

@jackvenables4981

Жыл бұрын

Same here but we were Venetian Jews who were heavily exposed to the ideas of Alexandrian and Ottoman Jews.

I believe Abraham & his teachings, Jews & Arabs are cousins, very related, both Semitic & Semitic based faiths. Also some key followers of Muhammad were Jews. We lived all around each other since time immemorial. It seems that the world has forgotten & believes that Jews all came from Europe and we all eat gefilte fish. The largest population of practicing Muslims is in Indonesia. Even pre Islam middle easterners celebrated some Jewish holidays, both peoples are very religious & both have similarities. Completely rational to think & understand. As a Maghrebi Jew I find it quite beautiful & humbling to see this unity.

Phillip dropping knowledge like crazy these days

@lionelchan1601

2 жыл бұрын

Peripatetic or direct :)?

@DarthBane959

2 жыл бұрын

Fphillip

Beautiful episode Filip. It’s a pleasure to be exploring these great thinkers and moments alongside you. We have much to learn from them. Ramadan Mubarak. Love, Zevi

@jacovawernett3077

2 жыл бұрын

Malkut. Schlama...

@salamatlawal4229

2 жыл бұрын

Uninboti nbiin tiboon.👍🏼

@sagaramskp

2 жыл бұрын

After this video I'm coming to both of your channels.

@al-islam5669

2 жыл бұрын

Ramadan Mubarak bit got me! Hope things are good :)

I love how you are unlocking the mysteries of the Islamic world 🌍

@jacovawernett3077

2 жыл бұрын

Mysteries of the Islamic world. The world is not a mystery.

@Trysomieflexntjes

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacovawernett3077 what are you trying to do?

Incredible output this week and timely given It’s both Ramadan and Passover. Much love!

@noneofurbusiness5223

2 жыл бұрын

. . .and Easter

Would it be possible to explore the early Christian pietists, the Desert Fathers, of the same region? It would be wonderful to see if there was a continuity of practice between the early Christian ascetics to the Sufis to the Jewish-Sufi mystics.

Excellent video, I am a doctoral student in Islamic studies and gave a paper at a zoom conference organized by Leiden University this previous summer on this very topic.

@phirion6341

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, I'm also from Leiden Uni ☺️👋

I never understood how some rabbis said that prostration isn’t a Jewish concept it’s all over the TaNaCH, Mishnah and both Talmuds.

@iantaylor9586

2 жыл бұрын

My understanding is that prostration bore too much similarity to the services that were performed in the Holy Temple. There are a lot of laws that prohibit performing or appearing to perform these rituals outside of the temple. Even today when we Jews prostrate ourselves on Yom Kippur, it can’t be done directly on a stone floor, to prevent the appearance of recreating the temple service.

@lewiakk5844

2 жыл бұрын

@@iantaylor9586 prostration on stone isn’t allowed because it’s like idolatry not since it’s like the temple service. The law was made when the temple was around.

@StockyDude

2 жыл бұрын

@@lewiakk5844 If you believe the Torah stories and chronology, the law was made before the temple. It was practiced while the nation of Israel was still wandering the desert before entering the promised land.

@goldengun9970

2 жыл бұрын

@علي ياسرJews went to a lot more places after the destruction of the temple than 4 middle eastern countries and some also never left Israel. Also just as promised in the tanach G-d has brought us back with both Israel in 1948 and unifying Jerusalem in 1967

It’s really touching to see how the Religious Studies community(?) has grown so much over the past several years on KZread. It’s rich and in-depth, academic yet accessible, and most importantly: kind and honest. Religion for Breakfast, Esoterica, Let’s Talk Religion, and so many others have made my life infinitely richer. God Bless :)

@AjitTheUndefeatable

9 ай бұрын

SAME!

Abraham's own son Obadyah wrote the fascinating, deeply Sufistic 'Al-Maqala al-Hawdiyya' or 'The Treatise of the Pool'. An English translation was published by Octagon Press in 1981.

@LetsTalkReligion

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Very cool book!

The level of intellect you provide in this channel is unparalleled I just want to say thank you please more and more and more

You, like Dr. Sledge of Esotericia, are a joy to listen to you! Thank you

Maybe you've done this already and I've missed it, but a video looking at the overlap between this, Orthodox Christian mysticism - particularly the East Roman Hesychasts with their divine light from Tabor - and the Sufi parallels would be fascinating!

Thank you, Filip! This is brilliant, i very much enjoyed your lecture

Thank you for introducing us to Seekers of Unity. I've been searching for something like that channel for a long time.

I watched them all and really like the approach. Excellent explanations from all three of you!

I cant help but be astonished by your work. Thank you for your effort in educating me.

Appreciate your work,as always 🙏 💗

It’s clear from the Talmud, and completely without any form of disagreement that the original way Jews prayed included bowing and prostrating in a very SIMILAR way to the way that Muslims do. It is also clear from the Mishnah Torah that R’ Moses Maimonides beloved that Jews should should continue this ancient practice of theirs and it seems that that was the common practice that he grew up with. That form of bowing was not reintroduced by R’ Abraham due to Islamic influence.

@jillybe1873

2 жыл бұрын

Also we do this in UK school nativity plays lol

@urbandiscount

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. He explains that. Please watch the video

@peterbeater012

Жыл бұрын

Please don’t mind her. She’s a woman.

@Ben-jq3ov

Жыл бұрын

Jews had to stop it because the temple was destroyed

Dudes! Seriously so excited to watch this!!!! :) thank you!

Excellent presentation as always.

Sufism and Judaism share a lot in common as someone who studies Judaism and is interesting in Sufism (especially the kabbalistic part that focuses on the meaning of things in life)...

@hichamal-maghribi4600

2 жыл бұрын

all sects that claim to be islamic are a product of jews

@greentube1357

4 ай бұрын

As the Video says it was inspired by Islamic sufism he was just inspired and brought into its community

This channel keeps surprising me. Excellent.

This was indeed fascinating! I was gripped throughout the whole video. Thank you very much

Excellent video thanks for your effort to enlighten the readers.

@TheAzizalykhan

2 жыл бұрын

👍🏼

The background Music is so soothing. You are a great Musician as well. Thank you for all the knowledge you spread. May god bless you.

Thank you so much for your valuable information and professional teaching

Brilliant ! Look forward to more on the subject.

Thank you for surprising me always by your magnificent videos

I love your content and music so much Filip 🖤 thank you brother

@LetsTalkReligion

2 жыл бұрын

That is very kind of you! Thank you!

In love with these detailed videos ♥🌺

Really enjoyed this one! Thank you ☺️

This was really interesting, thank you !

Be as cool and contrarian as you like! It's fascinating to explore the not so well-known byways of religious thought. Thanks for introducing us to this Maimonides, unjustly overshadowed by his father.

Excellent video. Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.

Thank You Sir for Your Valuable and Informative Video strengthen Our Thirst.

I just read an article regarding this. I'm glad I saw your video about this subject.

Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.

Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job

@LetsTalkReligion

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

What an interesting episode! As important and prolific as Moses Maimonides was I still find Abraham's life and work more interesting. After watching this I am convinced that I need to look into him further.

I seriously feel like I'm learning a historical shiur. Very very very well done, omG

I happened upon your channel just yesterday and have been captivated since. Amazing stuff! Thank you. I was hoping to learn more about you in the about section of your channel but I see no option for that. Blessings from Florida.🙏🌍🕊🕊

Finally got to finish watching. Eid Mubarak 🙏❤️🤗

Amazing! Thank you!!

I really enjoyed this video (topic) thank you for sharing this.

Really fascinating! Thanks!

Great Video thank you very much. Ibn Abi Usaibias Encyclopedia, Ibn al Quftis (Ibn al Koptis) Encyclopedia about the Wise Men/ Hukama/ Philosophers, Abi Suleiman al Sijistanis Sewan al Hikma/ the Vessel of Wisdom are three of the most important and interesting encyclopedias about medieval biographies in general and especially about the biographies of Philosophers and Scientists.

Great video man!

@LetsTalkReligion

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@bernardcornellisvanmeijere4375

2 жыл бұрын

@@LetsTalkReligion should you find yourself in Israel let me and the community know, I live in Safed and I would love to show you around the place!

@starcapture3040

2 жыл бұрын

Free palestine! Free Safed!

This episode has thrown me into a rabbit hole

Tack så mycket

@LetsTalkReligion

2 жыл бұрын

Glad att du gillar den :)

@hakim_alrooh

2 жыл бұрын

Jag följer dig och mycket stolt. Är mycket intresserad av ämnet.

Another fascinating video. Thank you for sharing your scholarship. Have you ever considered a video on G. I. Gurdjieff and what has come out of his writings and practices?

Fascinating, the same or very similar light and sound meditation was practiced by all of this religious groups in the past. It is all about to get the inner experience and it has nothing to do with outer rites and rituals. Today it is called Surat Shabad Yoga. Filip, it would be a great topic to compare all these mystical movements and find what is common in them. You will find most of them practiced the inner sound and light meditation. People used to get initiation by their Master, Sheik, so they can get the inner Gnosis, or Baptism.

Thank you for the wise insight into these religion's. Normally KZread videos divide these religion's & that courses trouble for these three faith's (divide & rule)

Thank you so much for another outstanding work. One thing I wasn’t quite clear on: what made Abraham’s Sufi-Judaism non-kabbalistic? Was it the fact that it didn’t use any of the standard kabbalistic terminology in describing its world-view?

@LetsTalkReligion

2 жыл бұрын

It has no connection to the tradition(s) of Kabbalah (their theoretical ideas, terminology etc), which developed primarily in Spain and southern France during the 13th century. That includes both the Zoharic Kabbalah and the Prophetic Kabbalah of Abraham Abulafia. The Pietists based their ideas and expressed them in entirely different ways.

@raphaelreichmannrolim25

2 жыл бұрын

Abulafia*

@ITSME-xx3oo

2 жыл бұрын

@@LetsTalkReligion isnt the kabbalah old babylonian technology

@LetsTalkReligion

2 жыл бұрын

@@ITSME-xx3oo No that sounds like one of the popular myths about Kabbalah. Kabbalah is very much an intellectual movement based in 12-13th century Judaism, specifically in Iberia and France.

@Xaviergonzalez85

Жыл бұрын

@@LetsTalkReligion Iberia is Portugal

3 hard working humans in 3 nations seeking to bring a deeper Understanding to our Soul's Evolvement. This is Sophia embodied. Thank you all. Justin, Zevi. and Fillip/

Great lesson!

Sufi mystics remind me of the Catholic monks in Britain that live far away from the population and practice strict regimes and fasts they baptised many pagans using similar methods to the sufis. Interesting similarities

@LetsTalkReligion

2 жыл бұрын

There are some paralells, definitely!

This makes me wonder If there have been Christian Sufi mystics, so excited to watch this episode rn

@johanna-hypatiacybeleia2465

2 жыл бұрын

Francis of Assisi, Ramón Llull, and San Juan de la Cruz, according to some

@abedmarachli7345

2 жыл бұрын

Sufi is an Arabic word that means serenity of the heart from other than God. This knowledge has no end. In the end, you know yourself and who you are. You are a drop in a sea that has no coast, forming what is called God. You are he and he is you. God and how he appears in infinite forms, and unlike Christianity, God does not limit God to mercy and love, they have 99 attributes of God that include all appearances in the theater of existence, and here you become a Muslim, i.e. surrender to what comes from thoughts and actions, so if you try to steal, you will steal God, and if you try to lie, you will lie to God, Most of their sciences are etiquette, then etiquette, then etiquette in dealing with God, And they say, whoever abused literature was expelled from the door and returned to the policy of the animals. Practically the idea that you live only you and God and then with time is called the shrine of confusion and then you end and only him remains,I advise you to read this book to get to know the idea of Islamic mysticism, as its idea is that a group of birds decide to search for those who created them and call them the simmerga and destroy the whole world and face difficulties and hunters and die many of them and then in the end realize that they themselves are the simmerga, and there are many wisdoms about the art of literature and dealing with God . www.goodreads.com/ar/book/show/35187179-the-conference-of-the-birds

@gracie99999

2 жыл бұрын

fundamental requirement would be a belief in God [obviously if communist it wouldn’t work..basically due to no belief]..but there have been and presently are people of all or a combination of faiths practicing from what I understand.. look into Idries SHAHs work if you want

@Ahmed-ef3bg

2 жыл бұрын

Islamic and Jewish definition of God and monotheism is closer hence adapts easier.

@ilmnaut8032

2 жыл бұрын

Meister Echkhart was pretty much a Sufi and rejected Trinity as the highest principle.

Any populations living in close quarters and good order will eventually begin to take ideas from one another, it is one of mankind's many realities.

A really wonderful video of a relatively little known philosopher, the son of the titanic intellectual figure of Moses Maimonides.

Very interesting. Thanks.

Could you do a video on Nasir al Din Tusi? Especially on his doctrines of the hereafter, paradise & hell?

*”thank you for creating this content and sharing it” ✌🏾❤️🙏🏾✡️ - MELL DUNEY 616*

Incredible I have never heard of this movement.

Thanks!

Abraham Maimonides book "How to serve God" is basically an instruction manual for achieving prophecy through perfection of the virtues.

Wow man you got you hair done ✔️ love it

Filip, can you talk about women scholars/thinkers in Islam? I bet there is at least one or two

@alhashmy1310

2 жыл бұрын

There are 8000 women scholars/ thinkers who are recored in Islamic books, Even there are more than 240 female companions of the Prophet Muhammad and There are more than 2,400 hadiths that were narrated by women companions .

@LetsTalkReligion

2 жыл бұрын

I did a video a while back about women in Sufism. It's on the channel!

@KhalerJex

2 жыл бұрын

@@LetsTalkReligion THanks Filip!

@je-freenorman7787

2 жыл бұрын

Muslims are all Luna Tics

@RashidLanie8

2 жыл бұрын

@@alhashmy1310 Fatima Al-Fihri, arguably, opened the first ever university for learning in Fez, Morocco circa 857-859 and it just so happened that the Elder Maimonides, Moses, was eventually enrolled there as a student. Fatima, had inherited a huge some of money from her wealthy parents and decided to put it to good use for humanity. Although it initially started as a center for Islamic education, it eventually included subjects such as Arabic grammar, Music, Medicine, Astronomy and Sufism. Al Qarawiyyin still stands in Fez today.

it's quite clear that Abraham was trying to revive Essene minhagim and practices which may be similar to sufism because the two movements were quite similar in terms of practice and ideology in both religions

May I ask you what confession do you have? And if you have one do you practicise?

The intro reminds me very much of xkcd 2501 wherein geochemicsts attempt to accout for how little a lay person is familiar with their field of expertese and fail to do so sufficently.

very good class

Can you please make a video on Wahdat-al-Shuhud of Sheikh Ahmad Sirhindi.

i've read somewhere that Aleister Crowley said on his death bed "i'm perplexed"... what's the story behind the Thelma religion ? is there a video about it?

So knowledgeable and helpful always inspiring 👍👍. Very few people knows about the karaites Jews, I wonder if you are familiar with this religion?

Perfect!

This dialogue focus is interesting. Karaite Jewish practice possibly was a major influence as well.

Have you ever thought of doing a video on the Shia/Sufi practices of Punjab, (cause there are some really absurd and unique practices here, especially in the past) for e.g the men of my father's tribe up until the 1960's refused to cut their hair and beards, cause they falsely believed the propeth never cut his hair

@subhanhasan990tsikfm

2 жыл бұрын

influence of sikhism?

@zakariakaleem3271

2 жыл бұрын

@@subhanhasan990tsikfm quite the other eay around, Sikhism was likely influenced by Islam, Hindusim and native pubjabi customs and practices

@fanouth06

2 жыл бұрын

Yogis are not cutting there hairs for spiritual and energetical reasons. The sikhs tell the same and also say they don't want to alter God's creations that is their body. Interesting !

@zakariakaleem3271

2 жыл бұрын

@@fanouth06 again, northern Jatts used to not cut their hair as part of their tribal customs, even after converting to Islam we kept these traditions but re-contextualized thorough the framework of Islam

@zakariakaleem3271

2 жыл бұрын

@RC Well not all Jats, but my paternal tribe didn't use to cut their hair and beards

Please do a video about rumi.

Do you also connect it to christian monahism which was earlier and a lot of it is found in sufis...

There was an additional concern that people would neglect the main occupation of Talmudic and Torah study as opposed to pietism.

I love that you describe Zevi and Justin as "normy" and yourself as "cool and contrarian" in your respective presentations of of Maimonides senior and junior.

@elidrissii

2 жыл бұрын

Can you link their channels? I can't do a KZread search with just those terms, and I don't know these people, but I like these types of channels.

@scotzer

2 жыл бұрын

@@elidrissii kzread.info. That one is for Justin.

@scotzer

2 жыл бұрын

@@elidrissii kzread.info. This is for Zevi.

@elidrissii

2 жыл бұрын

@@scotzer Thanks mate.

@scotzer

2 жыл бұрын

@@elidrissii Glad to oblige.

I would love to know the sources of the Islamic artwork. Decades ago I found some deteriorating folios with very similar prints. But have never been able to discern the source. The print at 11:35 looks very similar.

This is fascinating, thanks for presenting this, as you said, understudied bit of history. I just want to make one note, ides, in Miamonides, means "the son of" so Moshe was Moshe Miamonides because his father was Miamon. It does make sense to call Avraham "Miamonides" because he was Miamon's grandson. In Hebrew Moshe is Moshe Ben Miamon, and Avraham is Avraham Ben Moshe

@urbandiscount

2 жыл бұрын

They're all called "Maimuni"

@tzvi7989

Жыл бұрын

yeah but when you have an ancestor with a prominent surname/moniker you're gonna wanna keep it even if your actual hebrew name would be Avraham ben Moshe

In his Mishne Torah Maimonides writes that prayer is to include prostration and sitting in rows facing the ark of the Torah. Both practices were abandoned by Sephardic communities. Maybe it happed just because of the similarity to Moslem forms of prayer.

Salam Shalom 🤲🤲🌙 Muslim Jewish I was surprised to see that our Jewish brother of same family of Abraham wear head caps as a sign of respecting prophets🤲🤲🤲💕 love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩 France 🇫🇷

@goldengun9970

2 жыл бұрын

We do not wear head coverings to respect prophets. To remind us that there is a G-d above us

Kabbala Gnostic Sufi state is One. Turn Ecstatic. Bring out the Spring of Wisdom from Heart to the Tongue.

At this point I don't know whether Justin sent me to Philip or vice versa. I just keep going back and forth.

Thanks Philp...Would Prophecy is Abraham Maimonides' thought thus be similar to Wilaya in Islam? Time to watch "Jewel of the Nile" again!

Can you please make a video about the bektashi order?

"Normy" -Filip Holm of Let's Talk Religion

REAPENT ! All you heathen, I was sent by Let's Talk Religion 😅👍 Sorry brotha I am not going to traide your channel for jewish Esoterica or for New Age type of deal with Seekers of Unity. Thou shalt not sway to the left nor to the right from thou middle ground! Thank you brother, when I can I will support your channel. You are doing hella of a great job! 👍

oh my god, you do sing "aware"... ;) i suppose it could be a recording error lol fascinating it is...

do you have any videos on Asatru or Rökkatru?

Hi can you make a video on Imam Jafer e Sadiq the sixth Shia Imam.

I'm not sure if you made this video in response to me asking, but I want to take you A LOT.

@16:45 Any specific reason that would have been an issue? His father already codified that as law a couple decades before in the mishneh torah. He based that on the earlier legislation in the Talmud's. As mentioned in the video it was based on the prophetic tradition in the Tanakh. And no sraelite community stopped the practice, you even seen today Ashkenazim prostrating on high holidays.