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.
Episode 232 13 Tammuz Leap Year When Should You Buy Her Flowers?
In today’s episode we discuss what the role of fasting and inflicting suffering upon oneself might have if these are not part of the mitzvah of Teshuva.
Iggeres HaTeshuva Chapter 2.
Episode 231 12 Tammuz Leap Year The Problem With the White Fragility Movement
In today’s episode we discuss what is involved in the mitzvah of Teshuva and how fasting is not part of this, despite what many think.
Iggeres HaTeshuva, end of Chapter 1.
Episode 230 11 Tammuz Leap Year Move Fast and Break Things
In today’s episode we discuss a teaching in masechet Yoma about the three types of atonement necessary in the cases of three different types of transgressions. Iggeres HaTeshuva, Beginning of Chapter 1.
Episode 229 10 Tammuz Leap Year Moonlight
In today’s episode we discuss how moonlight can be used as a good analogy to help us understand how lower creations receive their vitality from the more loftier creations which radiate the 10 utterances of creation in a more direct way.
Sha’ar HaYichud V’Haemunah, end of chapter 12.
Episode 228 9 Tammuz Leap Year What Is an Invention?
In today’s episode we discuss how every individual creation receives its vitality from a particular combination, transposition or substitution of the 22 letters contained within the 10 utterances of creation. Sha’ar HaYichud V’Haemunah, beginning of chapter 12.
Episode 227 8 Tammuz Leap Year What Speaks Before We Think
In today’s episode we discuss why it is that we call the building blocks through which G-d creates the world “letters” even though G-d’s Speech is far above and the source of our wisdom and intellects.
Sha’ar HaYichud V’Haemunah end of Chapter 11.
Episode 226 7 Tammuz Leap Year How Do You Express Your Love?
In today’s episode we discuss the meaning and purpose of “letters of thought” and “letters of speech”.
Sha’ar HaYichud V’Haemunah, Beginning of Chapter 11.
Episode 225 6 Tammuz Leap Year Why Does a Week Consist of Seven Days?
In today’s Tanya we discuss how the seven days of the week come into being from G-d’s Attributes. Sha’ar HaYichud V’Haemunah, end of Chapter 10
Episode 224 5 Tammuz Leap Year Perspective
In today’s episode we discuss how the analogy of sunlight in relation to the sun, while far from perfect, is useful to us in terms of trying to understand G-d’s Attributes in relation to Him. Sha’ar HaYichud V’Haemunah, middle of Chapter 10.
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