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When personal mystical experience contradicts religious teaching

Since my father died I feel him everywhere but my rabbi says the dead don't communicate with the living and I'm torn between my experience and religious authority.

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Direct spiritual encounter conflicts with orthodox doctrine, creating tension between lived truth and institutional wisdom.

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