Reply To: Becoming Yeshivish

yytz, I understand. I’m kind of conflicted with mystical subjects. Recently I’ve listened to a few lectures Daniel Matt and I saw the correlation and felt that his analysis between kabbalah and science was well founded. I even found myself accidentally discovering some of the core ideas of kabbalah when I tried to give a logical explanation of free will. I’m not against it; but personally for me, when I open up the Tanya and see that gentiles are said to have the same soul (as in type of soul) as a dog or a couch, it bothers me quite a bit and doesn’t seem like the values that I learned from Torah.

Thanks for your output.