The movie Inception “works” on many levels, as a philosophical puzzle and as sheer glossy entertainment.
As a rabbi, I couldn’t help thinking of the Kabbalist teaching that while we sleep, our souls leave our bodies and ascend to their heavenly source in order to replenish energy.
The Kabbalistic commentary called The Zohar explains that when we sleep 59 out of 60 parts of our soul have now left the body, leaving only that 1/60 to sustain us physically.
In this disembodied state, the soul encounters visions usually off limits to within our everyday world...
