Audio1:06:40The Kabbalah of Thought
The inner life of machshava — how thought works in the soul, its power to shape our inner world, and how to elevate and guard it.
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Audio1:06:40The inner life of machshava — how thought works in the soul, its power to shape our inner world, and how to elevate and guard it.
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Audio1:01:55The opening of the maamar Hayosheves Baganim — the soul as the beloved 'who sits in the gardens,' and the yearning between G-d and the Jewish people.
Audio1:03:02An introduction to the four spiritual worlds — Atzilus, Beriah, Yetzirah and Asiyah — and how this ladder of creation descends from the infinite light of G-d.
Audio1:18:44Continuing through the four worlds — how each world is a garment and a filter for Divine light, and what that teaches us about our own inner structure.
Audio1:02:28Continuing the maamar — the gardens of Torah and tefillah in which the soul dwells, and how the Divine voice calls to be heard.
Audio1:11:25The world of Beriah and the realm of the intellect and the soul — how thought and comprehension mirror a whole spiritual world.
Audio1:10:18The longing of the soul in exile and the ways it seeks reunion with its Source.
Audio54:54How the friends 'listen to your voice' — the interplay of the soul, the angels, and the Divine desire to hear the voice of Israel.
Audio1:12:03The world of Yetzirah and the realm of emotion — how the middos of the soul correspond to a world of formation.
Audio1:04:22The world of Asiyah — action and the physical world — and how the lowest world becomes the ultimate purpose: a dwelling place for G-d below.
Audio38:04The culmination of the maamar — 'flee, my beloved' — the soul's plea to hasten the redemption and the revelation of the final geulah.
Audio54:04Drawing the four worlds together — how a person ascends and unifies the worlds through Torah, tefillah, and refining the physical world around them.
Audio8:40Elul is the month of Teshuvah, when 'the King is in the field' and closeness is made easy. It is a time of cheshbon hanefesh — taking stock of the soul — in preparation for the Yamim Noraim.
Audio5:52Tishrei, the head of the year, is satiated with holy days — Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Sukkos and Simchas Torah. Its sign is the scale of Divine judgment, and its inner theme is Teshuvah, the soul's return to its Source.
Audio11:40Cheshvan, the only month with no holidays, is the month of bringing Tishrei's light into ordinary life. As the eighth month it is the month of the supernatural — the month of Moshiach and the future third Temple.