Q: Was Enoch turned into the angel Metatron?
A: Chanoch (Enoch) was a great Tzaddik according to most sources, he was a shoemaker and with each stitch he united the worlds and Hashem, so when the world turned further evil, Hashem removed him from the world, alive, and turned him into the angel Metatron, who is so Holy we do not pronounce his name.
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(In response to a believer with questions)

Just a few notes: Every Jew is a believer, the child of believers. We naturally have the belief in G-d. You have this faith from birth and can never lose it. What you question are concepts. So if G-d were a concept or light or energy etc., then you would be right to question it and ask for proof.
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Q: How to define the Creator of the Universe or comprehend the Creator of the universe.
Basically there is this struggle with What is God? Is it light, energy?

A: Hashem, the Creator, is neither light nor energy. This is a mistaken influence from Eastern and even Greek teachings. Both light and energy are substances, no matter how refined. They are substances of this world.
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Q: Noah, can you explain to me to the best of your knowledge how people become possessed by evil spirits.
A: People are so filled with their own evil spirit, there may not be room for others, lol. Possessions seem uncommon in our times, since there are not many righteous souls who can even identify such possessions. Also, physical or mental illness could be spirits or it may not be. Most of the religious world today pays little, if no attention, to spirits.
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(Thanks HB!)
In the summer of 2000, 16-year-old Mordechai Kaler volunteered to help in the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington in Rockville, MD. One of his responsibilities was to invite the residents to attend the daily services (minyan) in the synagogue on the first floor. Some agreed and others refused, but even those who declined were pleasant about it.
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Written by Rabbi Yosef Shani in the book Shaar Yosef (1983), Israel.
(translated by Noah Shavrick)
(Disclaimer by the translator!) The conclusions herein are questionable, especially as to their source. All Kabbalah must be transmitted from teacher to student. New, innovative, novel conclusions could be quite incorrect and harmful to the development of one’s character. In addition, please be very aware that the planets, stars, etc. have no independent control over the world, only G-d does.
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Maamar –Reasons for Creation – by Rabbi Schneur Zalman, the Baal HaTanya. (First printed from a manuscript, which belonged to the son-in-law of the Baal HaTanya, in Lehaskilcha Binah, Kfar Chabad, Israel, 1976, page 3; reprinted in Maamarei Admur Hazakain, Inyanim, Kehot,1983, page 95.) (Translated and elucidated from the Hebrew by Noah Shavrick) (Questions or comments to AZKF@comcast.net)

Behold! All of the reasons, which are explained about the intent of the creation (of the world), which are: “it is from the nature of the Good One to do good,” and also “to convert the darkness to light, since the superiority of the light (comes from the contrast with darkness) etc.,” (these reasons) do not apply except after the death of the (primordial) Kings, which is when “Mah” and “Ban” mixed, and from this was the root of the darkness.
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