In today's episode we discuss the external and internal aspects of G-d's attribute of Chochma and why Moshe Rabeinu was a good conduit for transmitting the Torah.Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 19.Music by

In today's episode we discuss the difference between "seeing" and "hearing" spiritually speaking and how this relates to the prophets vs. the Kabbalists.Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 19.Music by

In today's episode we bring up the question as to how it is that the Arizal was able to write about inner levels of sephiros and worlds which were above Moshe Rabeinu's ability to understand or experience, if Moshe was the greatest prophet that...

In today's episode we discuss the second type of Love of G-d which is innate, albeit latent, within all Jews.Iggeres HaKodesh, end of Epistle 18.Music by

In today's episode we discuss the first of two levels of Love of G-d, called Aha'av B'Ta'anugim.Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 18.Music by

In today's episode we discuss how the Righteous will only truly be able to rest and experience G-d's Infinite Light in the time of the Resurrection. Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 17. Music by

In today's episode we discuss how Tzaddikim will experience a greater revelation of G-dliness in the Future Era in the time of the Resurrection vs the revelation they experience in Gan Eden.Iggeres HaKodesh, end of Epistle 17.Mu...

In today's episode we discuss how giving charity reaps "fruit" in this world and "principal" for the world to come and what this means.Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 17.Music by

In today's episode we discuss different reasons why a person should still give charity even if they are just as impoverished as the one they are giving to.Iggeres HaKodesh, end of Epistle 16.Music by

In today's episode we discuss why even a poor person is not exempt from giving charity.Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 16.Music by

In today's episode we discuss how the emotions of the G-dly soul stem from the intellectual attributes of the G-dly soul. Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 15. Music by

In this episode we discuss how the emotive and intellectual attributes previously discussed are merely metaphors for the attributes of the G-dly Soul.Iggeres HaKodesh, end of Epistle 15.Music by

In today's episode, we discuss the first six emotive attributes as they manifest within a person and how these emotive attributes are external manifestations of two internal emotive attributes, all of which are sourced in and correlate in ...

In today's episode we discuss how Avraham's attribute of Chessed in relation to the Supernal Attribute of Chessed can be likened to the relationship between the ashes of a burnt piece of wood to the wood or tree itself.Iggeres HaKodesh,...

In today's episode we begin a discussion in which we come to understand how we can come to understand G-d (somewhat) through studying the spiritual make up of Man.Iggeres HaKodesh, beginning of Epistle 15.Music by

In today's episode we discuss what is meant by the teaching that the eyes of G-d are always on the Land of Israel. Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 14. Music by

In today's episode we begin discussing a letter the Alter Rebbe wrote to his Chassidim, asking him to be just as passionate about giving to a fund that was established to raise money for the land of Israel as they were when the fund was first e...

In today's episode we discuss how there is a great Chessed which is latent within all Jews (Rav Chessed) and how G-d should thus act towards us in a way of Rav Chessed as well. Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 13. Music by

In today's episode we discuss how all Jews embody both Chessed and Gevurah. It's just a question of what is overt vs what is latent. Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 13. Music by

In today's episode we discuss how some Jewish souls are rooted in Chessed and some are rooted in Gevurah.Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 13.Music by

In today's episode we discuss how the "Service/Work" of Tzedaka produces a stronger effect than the "Act" of Tzedaka.Iggeres HaKodesh, end of Epistle 12.Music by

In today's episode we begin to explore the difference between the Act of Tzedaka vs. the Work or Service of Tzedaka.Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 12.Music by

In today's episode we discuss how we can stimulate the affection of Peace on High and Below through engaging in the Act of Tzedaka as well as how we can get a taste of the revelation of G-dliness that will occur in the Future, by connecting wit...

Today's episode is dedicated in loving memory to my maternal grandfather Avraham Yitzchok ben Binyamin HaKohen Z"L (the entire It is Taught podcast is dedicated to him as well). In today's episode we introduce the question of what the d...

In today's episode we discuss how not seeing everything as being good is a form of heresy and how training ourselves to see everything as good makes it revealed as such. Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 11. Music by