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Behaalotecha - Klimt's The Kiss and Moshe's Humility - Episode 32
Behaalotecha - Klimt's The Kiss and Moshe's Humility - Episode 32
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32 minutes
Released:
May 27, 2021
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Podcast episode
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We tend to think that the more information we have about a person, the better we know that person. Yet, this is not the case. Just because we have spent our whole lives with "ourselves" does not mean we really "know" ourselves. To know oneself requires one to lose one's ego. When you lose your ego and know yourself, you will simultaneously be better able to connect with others and with God. In Hesse's 1922 novel Siddhartha, the emptying of the ego leads to self-knowledge and Oneness. It is not a coincidence that the Torah describe Moses as the "most humble person on Earth" and also the only prophet God spoke to "mouth to mouth." In Gustav Klimt's 1908 painting The Kiss, we have a pair of egoless lovers also speaking to each other "mouth to mouth."IG: Stevehead0001steventobyweinberg.comMusic: Mahler - "Symphony No. 2 - II.iv. "Urlicht"
Released:
May 27, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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