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Tune in and hear the machshavos of Dr. Reb Yoni, integrating both yeshivish and chassidishe kabbalistic traditions to provide a holistic approach to connecting to HaShem in an intimate relationship. Experience frum hashkafa and inspire your neshama. Welcome to the life of a chassid. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kabbalah/support
It’s the end of an era. This is the final episode of this podcast. Please subscribe to my new podcast, The Emunity Podcast with Rabbi Yoni, at http://anchor.fm/rabbiyoni. Thank you.
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How does one handle the klipa noga with all the growth we’ve been working on?
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Just as there are levels of fear, so too love.
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Let’s dive in to the middah of being quiet. Part of our bilvavi series.
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Build your ratzon to have emunah.
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In Bilvavi, we look at yiras haonesh and its essential component to deveikus.
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In Bilvavi, we discover there are levels of yirah (fear).
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In Bilvavi, the concluding remarks on Divine Providence.
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Continuing in Bilvavi, one’s perspective on creation influences their belief in Divine Providence.
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Let’s eradicate anger - it’s proof we lack emunah.
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Post-Shavuos, what do we do now? Keep growing. Also, let’s use an anger check to gauge growth.
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This Sefiras Ha-Omer, let’s discuss simple inspirations to work on ourselves, not just count up. This week is Malchus.
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This Sefiras Ha-Omer, let’s discuss simple inspirations to work on ourselves, not just count up. This week is Yesod.
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This Sefiras Ha-Omer, let’s discuss simple inspirations to work on ourselves, not just count up. This week is Hod.
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This Sefiras Ha-Omer, let’s discuss simple inspirations to work on ourselves, not just count up. This week is Netzach.
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This Sefiras Ha-Omer, let’s discuss simple inspirations to work on ourselves, not just count up. This week is Tiferes.
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This Sefiras Ha-Omer, let’s discuss simple inspirations to work on ourselves, not just count up. This week is Gevurah.
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This Sefiras Ha-Omer, let’s discuss simple inspirations to work on ourselves, not just count up. This week is Chesed.
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Do we have emunah with even the small things?
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To foster emunah, it must permeate our very nature, every word and every action.
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How we kasher a kli is indicative of what we need to do to purify our own neshamos. Learn how.
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All music is Avodah. But what is that service aimed at, HaShem, or not-HaShem?
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We’re commanded to hate AMeLeK. Who is that today? Also, Chag Purim Sameach!
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Simcha, joy, is not a feeling - it’s an avodah. This Adar, practice this avodah…
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How to we balance our emunah, bitachon, and coronavirus? Let’s take a look to remind us of how we should approach it.
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We need to sit down and spend time thinking thoughts of emunah in our circumstances.
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Who runs the show, you or HaShem?
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Continuing in Bilvavi, we look at how emunah has necessary actions to it that are shy of bitachon.
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Emunah isn’t just for big stuff - it’s also for literally every moment of life. Everything is divine circumstances. We just need to learn to see it.
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What does it mean to fear HaShem. Let’s see what the Bobover Ruv has to say, with a story about R’ Zisha.
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You have sparks of Kedusha all over and around you. You leave them everywhere. Supercharge your impact on true Tikkun Olam!
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As if our homework on recognizing the basics of creation wasn’t enough, now we cranking it to 11. We need to recall throughout the day, every day, and take if farther, too, if we truly want to be in sync with cleaving to HaShem.
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As a holiday wraps to a close, we review how to keep the inspiration through the coming year.
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It’s that time of renewal. Find an inspiration to recognize the renewal in your own neshama this Chanukah.
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We need to constantly return to the simple question and answers of creation to create a firm foundation of simple faith.
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Continuing in Sefer Bilvavi Mishnah Evneh, we learn the simple emunah is the root cause of our growth with HaShem, and chas v’shalom, our distance.
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In this episode we discuss the rebranding of this podcast. Stay tuned and stay subscribed!
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Join Yoni on a short talking hisbodedus in the redwoods on recognizing the Creator.
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The key to defeating the Pharaoh in our soul is through simple emunah.
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Torah narratives have many purposes. Within you is the potential of every avos and every rasha we find in our mesorah.
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As we take a quick break from our current discussion on Bilvavi, we turn to look to the power of speech and how it affects our deveikus to HaShem.
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What we do here needs help from Above to come to fruition. So ask.
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In this episode we continue learning Bilvavi and discuss creating the constant awareness that there is a Creator.
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Join me as we prepare for Yom Kippur. Let’s take a refreshing view on our potential for this day of prayer and fasting.
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The last episode in this year’s Elul series, let’s find our starting point for closeness this Rosh Hashanah.
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What is the purpose of mitzvos? What if every mitzvah had a reason, and they were all chok?
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What is the purpose of life? Deveikus. As David HaMelech said, closeness to HaShem is my good.
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The King is in the fields. Now is the time to draw near.
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Welcome to the month of Elul. The King is in the fields. So what do we do about it?
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We continue the conversation on how HaShem is loving, not hateful, and appreciates every mitzvah we do when it has the right devotion to it.
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Join me in this episode as we discuss how true relationship with HaShem is one of love, not terrified fear.
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The 3 weeks are behind us, but the signs we’ve seen for the past two years say we need to look again.
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Every part of Jewish observance is rooted in Kabbalah. By learning these connections, we can learn how to improve our relationship with HaShem.
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Every action we take either brings kedusha or removes it. How does this relate to Israel being a nation of priests?
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Did you know environment affects growth? It’s a scientific fact observed in nature. How is your environment growing, or squashing, you?
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How can we apply the measure against a census of the Jewish people to our own lives in a way to multiple the goodness in our lives?
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It is beautiful how science works and proves spiritual truths. How to we cleave to HaShem? By following the laws of magnetism to defy the gravitational pull of our guf.
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Shavuos. Is. Coming. Are you ready to accept Torah anew? What does that really mean anyway?
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The pinecone is an example of balance and harmony in the world. For it to grow, it needs both water and fire. The same, too, for us. We need both the fire of emotion and the water of logic to temper and guide our body and soul.
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Join Yoni in the Redwoods as he discusses having a relationship with G-d and how conversation (hisbodedus) is a necessary component in that growth.
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In this episode, we look at counting up for the Omer and the personal work we need to do in our faith with HaShem.
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Join me in this episode as we discuss Passover, the Seder, and your role in spiritual slavery today.
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There’s a simple blessing we recite throughout the day that talks about healing the inner body and it’s complexities. Never before has it been more applicable for me.
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It’s not until you have a power outage that you realize a staple in today’s world compares nothing to real power.
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To sort great heights on the wings of eagles, we must first overcome our fears and trepidations about the world around us. Join me, as we learn in the parsha, the power of overcoming our self-doubt.
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In this episode Yoni discusses the mitzvah of the half-shekel.
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It may be 2021 now, but that doesn’t mean that everything is sunshine and happiness. We still have a ways to go. After all, this begin with Rosh Hashanah 5781. Let’s continue moving forward, growing as a beautiful rose bush but it’s just been beaten down and pruned.
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These are dark times, but hope is not lost. Let us celebrate the holiday of Chanukah, a holiday that reminds us a single light can triumph over all.
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The first three words of a beracha have more meaning then we realize at first. It is crucial that we grab onto this knowledge and I have the right kevanah.
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We all mess up, but we all can recover and move forward.
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It may feel like uncertain times, but we need to remember the HaShem still in control.
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This year, and this season, we have a fine line we have to walk: how do we rejoice yet hold back? How do we have a muted or reduced joy? How can we enter the month of Mar-Cheshvan and see the beauty of the month?
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Join me in this episode as I reflect on the significance of Rosh Hashanah for the year 5781, and how COVID-19 has impacted it.
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It’s the birthday of the world. It’s also a time of judgment, yet renewal and promise of a better tomorrow. All of this is fated on your relationship with HaShem. Is He Avinu (father), Malkeinu (king), or both? How do you connect to the Creator?
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In this episode I discuss how involved static is in every part of our lives, and how essential it is that we remove it during the month of Elul.
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I’m scheduled to go to the Beis Din tomorrow and make the way back to Portland.
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On the road, thinking about hosting a retreat, and some thoughts on meditation.
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Is your glass half full, or half empty? Maybe it’s neither…or both.
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The Fast of Tammuz and the Three Weeks are upon us. Engage in repentance a meaningful way.
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Thank you for helping me reach 100 episodes! I’d love to get feedback, iTunes reviews, and shares. This episode is about COVID-19, maintaining joy, and being a light to others.
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The Kabbalistic view of how to eat and live life shows us a life coaching model baked into our Torah existence.
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The world is a scary place right now with turmoil from protests, corruption, and COVID-19. Despite that, we can find our purpose and peace in our existence when we remember we are partners in creation and maintenance with HaShem.
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There is a Kabbalistic practice to recognize each day of the week has its own theme, based on which sefirah associates to that day. How do these sefiros connect to the entire week and what does that mean for me? How can I find out my own sefirah focus for my life plan?
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We are finishing up our counting of the Omer for 5780. As we learn the limitations of our physicality from COVID-19, we reach our penultimate moment of spiritual wholeness: Shavuos. What is the importance of this day, the number 50, and where this will guide is going forward?
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Pirkei Avos teaches us that if we study Torah in poverty then we will study Torah in wealth, and if we do not study Torah in wealth then we will surely not study Torah in poverty. The same lesson applies to our situation during the COVID-19 pandemic. “If only I had more time, then I would study.” Now, we have time. Are we studying?
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I’ve been off the air while recovering from COVID-19. This is my first episode back and some thoughts regarding the spiritual why to this virus.
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The Sefiros are a resonant harmony. So are the days of creation. Let’s use those metaphors to drive us to be more connected to HaShem.
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The recent pandemic has shown us how interconnected we truly are. How can we use this as a lesson to be more connected to Ein Sof?
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Purim has a hiddenness to it that we have to uncover. We begin that with the Fast of Esther.
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We were given life from breath. This breath is part of our inner core. As a result, our words have power. That’s why Shmiras HaLashon (guarding the speech) is essential.
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The Daf Yomi cycle teaches us something critical about the life cycle: we accomplish great work through slow iterations over period of time. What do your iterations look like?
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We have a duty to care for our planet. When is a better time to realize and improve on this than the birthday of Aytz Chaim, the Tree of Life?
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During the plague of darkness, the darkness is so thick that many couldn’t move, except for the observant Jews. Even the Jews who assimilated into the Egyptian culture were frozen in place and subsequently died. Is there a risk to assimilation today?
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Davening isn’t the end-all of our communication with HaShem. We can actually communicate with Him, and do, all the time.
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We aren’t made perfect. We’re made intentionally imperfect in order to give our neshama work to accomplish with our guf. This isn’t just spiritual. Like everything Jewish, everything spiritual has a physical counterpart.
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In this episode, I discuss the correlation between Kabbalah and Halacha. They relate more than you realize.
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It’s been a while so let’s review: who am I, what is the podcast, how am I qualified to do this podcast, and what’s coming next. I’m Dr. Yoni, and you’re listening to Kabbalah Pod. I’m excited so I hope you are too.
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Machpiel relates to the term parallel. As it is in heaven, so on earth. As it is on earth, so it is in heaven. How do we connect to that relationally?
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There are two levels to Torah knowledge: external and internal. To know both one must engage not only in study but also in spiritual work.
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Kabbalah Pod is relational or semiotic Kabbalah based on traditional theoretical, not practical, Kabbalah, if we needed to put a label on it.
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Spirituality is an essential part of any meaningful spiritual work. To lack spirituality deprives the work of meaning.
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The Ramchal calls Kabbalah the highest level of Torah. What are the implications of this statement?
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Life is busy. We’re everywhere doing everything. Multitasking. And it’s bad for us. Slow your roll and consider being meditative instead. Have kevana.
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Some days are better than others. Some days, our hearts and minds are in sync. Other days, they aren’t. When we feel that our heart and our mind are not in sync, that is when need to trust in HaShem.
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In this episode, I discuss the mountaintop experience of the holidays compared to the everyday life in the valley.
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In this episode my guest speaker and I discuss Shabbos and part of how we make it special. Featuring Eliyahu.
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Many brachos do we need each day? That’s a great question on the letter of the law versus the intent of the law, and in this cause more of a recommended guideline.
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You can go through every wall and obstacle in your way, as long as you recognize it’s not really there.
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Our lives are temporary, but it does not mean our spiritual growth has to be.
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Take what you gained over this holiday and keep moving forward.
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No mitzvah is Insignificant if the relationship is healthy.
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So many details for the new year, so don’t forget to be in relation with HaShem and identify how that relationship can grow this next year.
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Wisdom doesn’t cut it when facing G-d. By the very un-nature of Ayn Sof, we have to go beyond wisdom. Rebbe Nachman shares profound insight on what HaShem really seeks from us.
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Food is a way for us to connect the physical and spiritual through brachos and mindfulness. Specifically, kosher food in a CJOTH lifestyle.
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It’s that time again: taking stock of where you are. This year, find yourself, not someone else’s view of you, and work on your relationship with HaShem.
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Are you a fan of storms? I am. I love thunderstorms. I love the booms and flashes of lightning. They’re simply amazing.
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What is a dualistic nature? Let’s explore man’s dualistic creative ability and how they need to be in harmony.
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Where is your faith, in HaShem and the creative ability to heal or in Tylenol? We can take pain medication, but only trust in G-d for the ability to heal. After all, HaShem creates the world every minute.
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This Tisha B’Av, don’t look for an angry man in the sky. That’s Avoda Zarah. Look instead for redemption and repentance, taking us forward in our collective yahrzeit to a greater future.
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Faith in everything? Faith in nothing? How about a holistic, mandorla harmonization?
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How does joy connect with teshuva, and what does that have to do with the Three Weeks? Let’s unpack some thoughts of Rabbi Nachman and look to King David for insight.
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Who should we learn from and when? Must a chavrusa be an expert, or just one who desires to learn?
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HaShem is Ayn Sof. How does that computer in a physical and finite realm? Where is G-d?
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To have relationship with HaShem requires attaching ourselves to Him. How? By our thoughts. Then how? By those above us. Stand on the shoulders of giants.
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What inspires us to give thanks? Better yet, who and why?
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Lots of acronyms but essential way of living and Kabbalistic integration. Be good, Do good, and Be holy. Consciously and Joyously Observant of Torah and Halacha. Tune in and harmonize with me.
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A simple phrase at the start of Shemoneh Esrei (Amidah) sets the stage for how we ought to come before HaShem’s throne.
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As Sefiras HaOmer concludes, we look forward to Mattan Torah. Tune in to this cumulative discussion on Sefiros, Torah, and Tikkun Olam relation to Counting the Omer.
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Let’s chat about the Omer, Sefiros, and the unification of Malchus.
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Let’s chat about the Omer, Sefiros, and the unification of Yesod.
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Let’s chat about the Omer, Sefiros, and the unification of Hod.
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Let’s chat about the Omer, Sefiros, and the unification of Netzach.
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Let’s chat about the Omer, Sefiros, and the unification of Tiferes.
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Let’s chat about the Omer, Sefiros, and the unification of Gevurah.
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Let’s chat about the Omer, Sefiros, and the unification of Chesed.
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It’s Pesach, which means it’s time to count the Omer. This simple statement during arvit has major Kabbalistic implications. Let’s take a gander...
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The Pesach Haggadah tells us of four sons. The PaRDeS Aggadah tells us of four men that journeyed through the four levels of the garden. These narratives are metaphors to show us a path. Do you see the connection?
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The bird in the pan or the bird in the bush? PhD or MD? Where does Kabbalah fit in?
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Balance isn’t the right Kabbalistic concept - Harmony is. It’s an essential difference that changes how we understand yachad - unity - and HaShem.
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Pesach is coming. We clear the physical of chametz, but what does it mean to deal with spiritual leavening as well? Tune in to find out!
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Learn more about TM, Jewish TM, mantras, and shalom in this episode.
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We reap what we sow. Just like a bank account, there is a return on dividends, in a way. How much do we invest in our pursuit of relationship with HaShem? That helps define the quality and depth of our spiritual tether.
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Drinking, masks, and costumes. Is this really all Purim is about, or is there something more? Tune in to this episode to learn about the power of Purim, beyond the mask…
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In this episode I discuss the mandorla roles of Rabbi and Rebbe.
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The resonant harmony of Torah requires us to hear and speak. How does this affect those both deaf and mute?
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Or is it prayerful meditation? You’ll have to decide for yourself. This episode hashes out a prayer and meditation concept by Rabbi Nachman Breslov.
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Why all these civil laws in the midst of religious life? What’s that have to do with being Jewish?
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Judaism teaches separating sacred and mundane. How does that apply in our lives? Can we take it too far?
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There are 50 gates to HaShem and mankind can access 49 of them. When we can’t find our gate, what do we turn to? The Psalms.
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Rabbinic fences have value. My own experiential metaphor of the brace connects.
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I’ve been off the air due to an accident. During this time l learned the value, and struggle, of habits. Tune in to learn more.
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We see one of the first direct references to meditation being connected to prayer in Parasha Chaiyay Sarah.
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Time the time to mourn. We are mishpacha - family.
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Don’t rely on just knowledge, emotion, or spirituality to connect to HaShem. Find a holistic and unified approach.
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Take a moment and enjoy the beauty and magnificence of creation. Transform it into praise.
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Don't judge Judaism by the media - judge it by the Torah. Don't live a fast food faith - live a meaningful connection to the Infinite.
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Sukkos is a holiday if remembrance and a foreshadow of what’s to come. Our temporary dwelling is more than a sukkah - it’s our life.
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Kabbalah is necessary, but credible sources are essential.
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Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur recall holiness and judgement. At the same time, we’re supposed to have faith in a loving G-d. How do we reconcile these opposites?
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Meniscus. A big scientific word for a small spiritual barrier. How do we break through?
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Rain is one of the most beautiful expressions of weather HaShem can give us. However, it needs a harmonious balance.
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We don't need motivational speakers or snazzy Instagram quotes. We have Torah - our living relationship with HaShem.
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In this month of Elul we take stock. We seek relationship with HaShem. Take advantage of that jump-start and keep it going throughout the year.
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How we act and speak has spiritual impact. Listen to learn more about this circle.
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In this episode, I discuss the spiritual association of Tisha B'Av on the calendar.
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Relationship with HaShem isn't an equation - it's an art form.
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In this episode I talk about the Three Weeks from an inner heart perspective. How do these twenty-one days impact you?
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The Shema is a statement. Is it One, Alone, or One & Only? How about all of them?
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In this episode we discuss what is dangerous, and what is safe, in Kabbalah and meditation.
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Judaism is not a checklist - it’s a relationship. Find beauty in the mitzvoth and help others succeed too.
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Prayer is a critical part of a relationship with HaShem. Davening is our manual and starter's guide.
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The body is an amazing wonder we often overlook. That is why we need to say Asher Yatzar.
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How do we ascend? How do we live how HaShem wants us to? It's easier than you may think.
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In this episode I discuss my visit to the Kotel and how it impacted me.
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Orthodox Judaism tells us what and how. But what about the why?
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Don’t let the mountaintop experience fade away when you experience the valleys of everyday life. Keep it real and in your heart, everyday.
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Make this Shavuos a special time to connect.
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Are we G-d’s Children?
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When we save a sin for later.
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In this introductory episode, meet Yoni, learn what this podcast is about, and how Yoni is qualified to talk on the subject.
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