How do you know when you’ve really learned something, not just superficially, but deeply? When your face changes from it.

Dec 29 2011

This is a test of the Alternadox Broadcasting System.

Dec 05 2011

We have been led to believe that sponsoring kiddish is an amazing thing to do in memory of a loved one. THIS COULD BE A SCAM. Watch out!

Dec 29 2011

Superman saves Lois Lane, but we cannot live a life expecting miracles. And that’s not even why we are here, is it?

Dec 29 2011

Welcome back!  We explore Rav Kook’s description of the Birthpangs of Moshiach – we’re right in the middle of it (hopefully closer to the end).  Knowing what is happening allows us to stay afloat in such difficult times.  Rav Kook’s prescription for how to manage is quite surprising.

Aug 12 2010

Spirituality can be an escape toward the light.  How does it fit?  An exploration of ruach and neshama, of spirit and soul, up and down, Jung and Torah.

Oct 19 2009

Anger, says Rav Kook, is really understandable, though not excusable.  By understanding what it is, we can understand how we are supposed to respond to it when it comes…

Apr 26 2010

We continue in our wide view of how personality and interaction actually function by looking at a variety of traits that make up a situation.  Today we explore tikkun and tochachah, which fit quite well with our recent work on anger and love.  We have learned that ‘anger=time to connect’, but how do we connect?  [...]

Apr 26 2010

Welcome back!  We explore Rav Kook’s description of the Birthpangs of Moshiach – we’re right in the middle of it (hopefully closer to the end).  Knowing what is happening allows us to stay afloat in such difficult times.  Rav Kook’s prescription for how to manage is quite surprising.

Aug 12 2010

This essay deals with the attempt to manifest the supernal reality of the Jewish nation into a body, and its struggles.  This particular session also deals with the question of when and how Mashiach will come.  Please note these segments are not in chronological order.

Oct 05 2009

We will spend about an hour – almost 10% of our waking Yom Kippur time – confessing.  What is the goal of this confession?  How do you know when you’ve done it right?

Sep 27 2010

Welcome back!  We explore Rav Kook’s description of the Birthpangs of Moshiach – we’re right in the middle of it (hopefully closer to the end).  Knowing what is happening allows us to stay afloat in such difficult times.  Rav Kook’s prescription for how to manage is quite surprising.

Aug 12 2010

How do you know when you’ve really learned something, not just superficially, but deeply? When your face changes from it.

Dec 29 2011

The Torah is not the point, in Rebbe Nachman’s thought, it seems.  The point is the encounter we have – with each other, with the world.  The Torah helps in an essential way in making that encounter happen. We also explore this “intelligence” which occurs in nodes in our world – what is it?

Jun 13 2011

When we enter into a new ‘world’ – a new era, a new stage of life, we are beset by negative forces – illusion, desire, confusion.  The way to move past these elements is to embrace the expansiveness of being a new place.

May 04 2010

In this class, we discuss one of the most esoteric of Rebbe Nachman’s concepts – the column of souls wherein each of us occupies a space that is unique but completely related to the one above and below.  When we move, the one above us moves in a certain way.  Very deep stuff.

Apr 12 2010

in our study of Parshat Vayechi, we see how Ya’akov’s life is reframed beyond the classic good/bad mentality. And Rebbe Nachman tells us a bit about how to get there.

Jan 03 2012

Parshat Vayigash – the cliffhanger concludes with the dramatic unmasking of Yosef. But it could only happen when the brothers, and especially Yehuda, could do their own work.

Dec 27 2011

Generosity, as a mussar trait, is about the heart, not the action.  So we need to work toward actively cultivating the generous heart in whatever we can. It is so important that our hearts be open to the pain and needs of others, even if we cannot give $ or even time.  But caring, we [...]

Feb 14 2011

We started our second round of Mussar, as Dr. Morinis recommends: choose 10-15 traits and cycle through them a few times in order to integrate the work and the message.  So we kicked off our second semester with Humility, the starting point for mussar work, as will be explained.  And we took a lively look [...]

Jan 05 2011

There is a tension.  Some things are worth struggling for.  They are beyond our immediate grasp for a good reason – if they were easy to attain, we would not value them as much.  So we have to reach – go beyond our immediate set of skills and work toward something new. But if they [...]

Oct 11 2010

If I didn’t know Hebrew, and I wasn’t devoted to Orthodox practice, there is approximately NO WAY I’d be praying three times a day out of a prayerbook.  The bar is just too high!  There’s just nothing instinctual about it.  Even doing it in English – it feels repetitive.  If I don’t know the difference [...]

Oct 10 2010

The rabbis and sadducees argue about there there is sequence to what happens in the Torah, in the talmud, and in our lives. Then Rav Kook brings a fascinating perspective of his own. From berachot 10a.

Dec 29 2011

is no coincidence at all. Or so says Rebbe Abahu… And Rav Kook brings a powerful teaching about it.

Oct 24 2011

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Dec 26 2011

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Dec 26 2011