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Episode 607 - 4 Av (Regular Year) - How to Improve Your Posture
In today's episode we discuss how learning the Oral Torah strengthens a person's faith in G-d.As part of this discussion, I lead the listeners through a short "Mountain Pose" meditation to experience the relationship between the Crown a...
Episode 606 - 3 Av (Regular Year) - Engage Your Core (Which is Not What You Think!)
In today's episode we discuss the concept of spiritual "loins", which is Faith in G-d (Emunah). How to strengthen our faith through learning Torah and meditating upon G-d, which will seep into the rest of our spiritual bodies/limbs, which trans...
Episode 605 - 2 Av (Regular Year) - Shadows
In today's episode we discuss how to experience joy in worldly suffering in recognition of how it saves us from much greater suffering in Geheinom. We also discuss how our positive actions in this world similarly create a disproportionate spiri...
Episode 604 - 1 Av (Regular Year) - What The Happiness Project Got Wrong
In today's episode we discuss how keeping your past sins in the back of your mind at all times can make you happy.Iggeres HaTeshuva, end of Chapter 11.Music by
Episode 603 - 29 Tammuz (Regular Year) - The Boy Who Cried Wolf
In today's episode we discuss G-d's unique ability to forgive an infinite amount of times.Iggeres HaTeshuva middle of Chapter 11.Music by
Episode 602 - 28 Tammuz (Regular Year) - Why Are Clowns So Scary?
In today's episode we discuss how it is possible to harbor two opposing emotions of humility/contriteness and joy at the same time in praying to G-d.Iggeres HaTeshuva, Beginning of Chapter 11.Music by
Episode 601 - 27 Tammuz (Regular Year) - Can People Really Change?
In today's episode we discuss how Teshuva Ta'ta is a necessary prerequisite for Teshuva Ila'ah and how Shabbos is connected with Teshuva Ila'ah.Iggeres HaTeshuva, end of Chapter 10.Music by
Episode 600 - 26 Tammuz (Regular Year) - An Alternative to Codependency
In today's episode we discuss how Teshuva I'laya comes about not directly through Man's effort, but rather through G-d effecting it from Above to Below. However Man still needs to work to rise from level to level.Iggeres HaTeshuva, Begi...
Episode 599- 25 Tammuz (Regular Year) - Psychic Attachment
In today's episode we discuss how Bina gives birth to emotions (middos) and how this relates to Teshuva I'laya'a in terms of the higher Hei and the Vav. I.e how and why studying Torah is the path to Teshuva I'laya.Iggeres HaTeshuva, Cha...
Episode 598 - 24 Tammuz (Regular Year) - Before the Exhale
In today's episode we discuss what is involved in the higher level of Tehuva (Teshuva Ila'ah).Iggeres HaTeshuva, End of Chapter 8.Music by
Episode 597- 23 Tammuz (Regular Year) - Reset
In today's episode we discuss how one can arouse the 13 Attributes of Mercy to reset the letters of one's soul so that one's sins no longer detach a person from G-d. Iggeres HaTeshuva, Beginning of Chapter 8.Music by
Episode 596- 22 Tammuz (Regular Year) - The Little Things
In today's episode we discuss how even minor transgressions can have a cumulative effect of being on par with the most severe transgressions.Iggeres HaTeshuva, end of Chapter 7.Music by
Episode 595 - 21 Tammuz (Regular Year) - Be Sober
In today's episode we discuss how the path to a broken heart, which is necessary for doing Teshuva, is taking an honest accounting of one's actions and realizing their ramifications.Iggeres HaTeshuva, Middle of chapter 7.Music b...
Episode 594- 20 Tammuz (Regular Year) - The Two Stages of Healing From Addiction
In today's episode we discuss the two general aspects involved in lower Teshuva, namely 1)Compassion and 2)Subjugation.Iggeres HaTeshuva, Beginning of Chapter 7.Music by
Episode 593- 19 Tammuz (Regular Year) - When Pleasure Leads to Starvation; The Science of Addiction
In today's episode we discuss how we have a choice as to which channel we receive our vitality from and how Teshuva can restore a more direct flow from our source.Iggeres HaTeshuva, end of chapter 6.Music by
Episode 592 - 18 Tammuz (Regular Year) - Do You Want to Live Forever?
In today's episode we discuss how while in the past, when we were on a higher level, we received our physical vitality in a more direct manner exclusively from our G-dly souls, nowadays, with the exile of the Schina (due to our actions), the vi...
Episode 591 - 17 Tammuz (Regular Year) - Breath Is Like a Rope
In today's episode we discuss how the 613 Mitzvos can be thought of a rope with 613 strands, which ultimately is G-d's Breath which is the vitality of the G-dly Soul.Iggeres HaTeshuva, Chapter 5.Music by
Episode 590 - 16 Tammuz (Regular Year) - What Does It Really Mean to Be Created in the Image of G-d?
In today's episode we discuss the deeper meaning behind man being created in the image of G-d by virtue of the soul mirroring the Tetragrammaton. Iggeres HaTeshuva end of chapter 4.Music by
Episode 589 - 15 Tammuz (Regular Year) - The Secret of the Tetragrammaton
Today's episode has been generously sponsored by Ruta Cohen (Rus bas Natalya Esther) in honor of her birthday. In today's episode we discuss how the Tetragrammaton contains all of the 10 sephiros within it.Iggeres HaTeshuva, Mid...
Episode 588 - 14 Tammuz (Regular Year) - And G-d Exhaled
In today's episode we discuss the difference between blowing (i.e. exhaling strongly) vs. speaking and how this relates to G-d's creation of Man.Iggeres HaTeshuva middle of chapter 4.Music by
Episode 587 - 13 Tammuz (Regular Year) - What Does It Mean to Return to Your Source?
In today's episode we begin a discussion of coming to a more in depth understanding of what Teshuva is and introduce some related questions in this regard.Iggeres HaTeshuva, Beginning of chapter 4.Music by
Episode 586- 12 Tammuz (Regular Year) - You Can't Put a Price Tag On Your Health
In today's episode we discuss how one should give extra charity as a way of redeeming the outstanding proscribed fasts (according to the more stringent opinions).Iggeres HaTeshuva, end of Chapter 3.Music by
Episode 585 - 11 Tammuz (Regular Year) - Fast With Your Money
In today's episode we discuss how charity can serve as a substitute for fasting nowadays due to our generation not being as physically robust as generations in the past.Iggeres HaTeshuva, middle of Chapter 3.Music by
Episode 584 - 10 Tammuz (Regular Year) - The Three Day Rule
In today's episode we discuss the deeper meaning behind why the sages settled upon the measure of having a sinner fast 3x the prescribed number of fasts for whatever sin they committed.Iggeres HaTeshuva, Beginning of Chapter 3.M...