Ebb and Flow with Solomon Ezra

By Solomon Ezra Berezin

Ebb and Flow, like the chassidic concept of Ratzo V’Shuv (running and returning), aims to provide you with the principles and practices, wisdom and willpower, insights and inspiration, and empowerment... more

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October 09, 202498: Journey to Oneness: Merging Torah, Chassidus, and New-Age Spiritual Teachings | Moshe Gersht
Topics of Discussion
Background and what led to where he is now

Religious Growth and affiliation, Chabad

Learning Torah but far from Truth

Learning Chassidus and going to therapy

Finding the right therapist

Jewish Chassidic teachings and New-age Spiritual thought leaders

Day job Torah, side hustle Spiritual self-help

When he knew it was time to do more than studying in yeshiva

Letting go of fear

Do all spiritual paths lead to the same end-goal?

Does it mean I can choose a different place and get to the same place? As far as spirit is concerned, G-d is found in all places. So everywhere is the path to G-d.

Torah is not about this is the only way to find an enlightened perspective because it can be found in many places.

What is the uniqueness of Torah?

Judaism begins where Buddhism leaves off

Believing in the Mount Sinai experience of receiving the Torah

Other practices may have some filter keeping someone from the Unified Truth - Ohr Ein Sof

His deepest spiritual experiences were in Torah

The Oneness is available to everyone and for everyone

If you’re looking for relaxation or co-create and manifest things there are modalities. But if you’re looking to return to Self, that’s the placeless

The goal of all is to reach Source consciousness and then internalize it and reflect It in this world

The path to G-d is for everybody, but Torah is not necessarily for everybody

“Your incarnation is the blueprint for your liberation” - Ram Das.

Why Ram Das didn’t find enlightenment in Judaism. He said no one put Kabbalah and Chassidus in front of him

You don’t need to look somewhere else to find the enlightenment space

Your life is not a mistake. Everything that led to where you are now is for a higher purpose

The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s push for mivtzoim (helping a fellow Jew with Mitzvahs). Putting on tefillin is water for your thirsty soul

One mitzvah. One thing at a time.

The Hebrew month of Elul and Tishrei

"It’s all the same to Me"

"The Three Conditions"

G-d is not found in the noise

If you really want to know G-d you have to come to know yourself. How? Do one of three things: meditate, get outside of a world-view of taking and give instead, change your priority of doing to just being - quiet, service, being
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57min
September 18, 202497: A Path Forward: Wisdom and Guidance for Today from the Lubavitcher Rebbe | Nechama Shusterman
Show Notes:
Nechama’s background and getting into the podcast

Main Ideas and Models the Rebbe taught in these last years

Tools the Rebbe taught us - Learning from Shabbos

Getting in the Flow

The donkey of Bilaam like our bodies - we beat it up. Feeling this so much being in yeshiva. If your body is saying No, Hashem is saying No

What is it you’re seeing body that I don’t see? What is it you’re telling me?

Listen to Nechama Shusterman of A Path Forward podcast about Rebbe’s sichos 1991/92 https://www.listennotes.com/da/podcasts/a-path-forward-nechama-schusterman-hPsrDdqibcj/
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1h 6min
August 14, 202496: Breath, Prayer, and Chassidus: Elevating Your Life with Rabbi Chay Amar
Show Notes:
Rabbi Aamr’s background and how he got into meditative prayer and breathwork

Purpose of breath-work and meditation

Difference between Davenen (prayer) and meditation

Thinking Chassidus means to ask: What you learned, how does it relate to your personal life?

Mittler Rebbe Derech Chayim - you should not stray after your hearts and then your eyes? Not eyes then heart? A person only sees with his eyes what he desires with his heart.

“The world was created with 10 maamarim, or sayings.” Why not 1 maamar? Lehibarot (to create) comes from the word briut (health). A chassidic explanation: With one maamar you can be healthy.

Types of meditation

Chassidic Discourses that change the way you look at things

Living with a chassidic discourse and not just reading it

Whats the best hochlata, or resolution you can take? Just do it.

Elevating your self with Chassidus

A person only sees with his eyes what his heart desires

What he teaches today with breathwork and meditation

Preparing the keli, the vessel to receive, then bringing in ideas of chassidus that will attach you to G-d’s unity

Why does meditation have to be before davenen? Why not in the middle of the day? The Friedeker Rebbe says that once one contemplates, he taps into and unveils one’s emotions, having unveiled emotions without something to keep a person focused, like prayer, or something practical, it can leave it open, which then can lead to a not-positive place.

All the growth in human potential and performance is a direct result of chassidus being introduced in the world

Chakras - sounds like the hebrew word sheker (lie), Reiki from the hebrew word reik (emptiness)

Experiment to see the aura around a person - seeing an aura around a person with tefillin, and a woman after a mikveh, spiritual bath

The depths of the highest level and the depths of the abyss, where a person gets energy from unholy forces

Some things might seem wonderful but who says it’s from a kedusha, holiness

What is the source of it from?

Rebbe to a Jew: G-d is what He needs to be to other people, but to the Jew it’s the attachment through Torah and mitzvahs

His personal experience with transformational breath in Israel with a elderly man

Using the healing work as a temporary passageway to something higher

Sharpening your Saw

Learning the Rebbe’s sichas, or short talk like chassidic discourses

Take your time and learn to know

Being in the Zone means my inside and my outside are in balance, it comes from Chassidus

Breathing deeply frees a person’s mind

Spirit of Moshiach is the breath of air

Transformational breathwork that forces a person to reach deeper areas in the body where oxygen did not get

Writing your vision on paper and watching it unfold

Getting out in order to return better

I’m running from You to You

What 12/13 Tammuz is and Rabbi Amar’s personal experience with the Rebbe

mesirat nefesh, self sacrifice. Authenticity of Torah continuing

Freedom is not a place on the map, it is a state of mind. Wealth is about giving.
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1h 10min
July 24, 202495: From Hoops to Healing: A Journey of Resilience, Spirituality, and Balance with Doron Sheffer
background growing up and bball regimen

Being the tall guy in school

Mental performance tips

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Journey to South America and India during and after playing

Soul searching, from Buddhism to Shamanism to Judaism

Coming back to Judaism and Torah

All to find balance way to live life in body, mind, and soul.

Bottomline to be a Mensch - work on our values and good deeds

Struggles through recovering from Cancer

Growing up in a “secular” Judaism family

Why young Israeli’s travel to far east, 2 reasons:

The Torah can help you or it can do the opposite depending what you do with it. Sam Chayiim Sam Mavet

What led him to re-explore Torah Judaism?

Difference between Mitzvahs between Man and G-d, and Mitzvahs between Man and Man

Mitzvahs between Man and G-d are very individual.

Playing alongside Ray Allen and the quote: Some people want it to happen, others wish it would happen, but only a few make it happen

Mensch.V.P Book:

Making it happen

without trying to force an outcome

When to act and when to let go

An indication of being balance is our physical and mental situation - he’s happy and healthy

The Torah is everything but black and white

“Not to climb so high on the tree, and not to run from taking responsibility”

Connection with October 7

Putting basketball in a healthy and balanced way

Coming back after cancer to the same ball but a different ball game. Playing in a natural and free way

Heaven and Hell are mainly in the head.

When he changed himself, the game changed with him

Greif to Growth project: https://www.doronsheffer.com/from-grief

Hyuli Healing center

Website: https://www.doronsheffer.com/about

Becoming the Most Valuable Player in the Game of Life

Win-Win businesses

Playing ball without score

We lose ourselves when we compare ourselves with others.

Finding one’s center and the special talents

Basketball in Messianic Times

The Ball is in Our Hands
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49min
June 23, 2024Opening Our Eyes to Health and Unity, and Embracing the Future Now
Class given on the topics:
The Rebbe often said, "the messiah is here we just have to open our eyes,"

Preventative medicine

Unity consciousness

Health in Messianic times

Listening to the body

Eyes open and eyes closed is one

Living as if our future is here now
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26min
May 15, 2024 94: The Jewish Path to Self-Transcendence | Rabbi Moshe Genuth
- Rabbi Genuth’s background
- Meeting Rav Ginsburg
- Rav Ginsburg’s teachings
- The meaning of Bittul (self transcendence)
- Shiflus (lowliness)
- Drawing G-d more into the picture and myself to the side
- Admitting one’s shortcomings is really a strength
- What your wife is telling you is a metaphor for what HaShem is telling you
- Egomania - where all problems start from
- Story of a student of the Alter Rebbe on a merry go round
- Importance of meditation
- Alef Bet Gimmel (ABC) from Rav Ginsburg
- Know thy self - or not?
- Messiah comes when you have “when our attention is diverted
- Praising the work, not the result
- What is the true satisfaction of doing something? The Simcha of doing it!
- Chassidic approach to meditating to break a habit
- Fingernails represent residual emotions
- Who is the world about? Who’s in the center?
- Can you feel that gam Zu letova - this too is good?
- The time you’re ready to get married is when you’re ready to invest in others
- It’s not that I want. It’s that HaShem commands me.
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1h 16min
April 17, 202493: Breath of the Soul | Adam Klasner
Show Notes:
Background and how Adam got into breathwork and leading Anochi Workshops

Background with personal development, Tony Robbins retreats

The Call of the Shofar

Concern of idol worship with these events? Is it real or a fear?

Aseh Lecha Rav - make for yourself a mentor

Giving tough decisions over to someone who is taking accountability for your spiritual health

Acquire for yourself a friend to hold you accountable

Everything good in those places comes from Torah - Friedeker (Previous) Rebbe

Discerning if the resistance is the body resisting change, or if it’s actually a nudge from your soul to do something else?

Emotions are the mirror of the soul. It does not have words.

The soul is not limited to words, it nudges you.

Become in touch with that communication.

Song is connected to the soul.

Meditation, breath-work, and prayer

Talking through breathwork and discomforts that may arise

The tool of breathwork and what it’s used for

Tools vs mitzvahs (commandments)

A spiritual practice can only be G-d given

Life calls us into different experiences. Finding G-d even in the places we think He is less available.

Thinker of the thoughts

Recognize the inner chatter around what you’re doing

A person should always be soft like a reed, and he should not be stiff like a cedar — Gemara Taanis 20

Response flexibility

Find the truth of every situation
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55min
March 13, 202492 : The Mind Controls the Heart | Reuvan Flamer
Show Notes:
Reuven’s background with nutrition, going to yeshiva, and with Meditation and hisbonenus (contemplation)

Learning the Rebbe’s discourses and talks

Meditation in a conventional way and meditating after learning

His experience with Tony Robbins events

Moach Shalet al HaLev - The Mind controls the Heart

“If you think the world has Torah, this is wrong. If you don’t think they have wisdom, this is also wrong.”

Change your beliefs and perceptions, you’ll change what you want

The mind enlightens you to want in a different way

Natural Food Certifiers and discussing nutrition

What’s your identity
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57min
February 14, 202491: The Love Rabbi: Navigating the Path to Your Soulmate | Rabbi Bernath
Rabbi Bernath’s background growing up and becoming a Rabbi

Meeting the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, that inspires him till today

How he assumed the title “Love Rabbi”

Secrets of Matchmaking

The hardest job in the world — dating

Who am I and what do I bring to the relationship

Practical element of being together and of where you’re headed

Specific is Terrific

Fixed or Flexed - Fixed on and Flexible with

For everything non-negotiable, there must be many negotiable

3 I can live with, 3 things I cannot live without

Cast a specific not, not a wide net

Specific vs narrow-minded

Feeling that something is missing in your life

3 Parts of Matchmaking: Introducing, Coaching, Closing

3 types of people: I people, You people, We people

Importance of a Mashpia (mentor)

Be you and understand you and wherever you are in that moment you will find someone

Gemara about searching for your wife like searching for a lost object: it’s the man’s job to search for the wife

How much work internally and how much externally

The critical person is the mashpia

Hashem will give the right words for the Mashpia to say

Faith and Trust

What to look for in a mashpia (mentor)

Kabbalah and Chassidus meditation class he gives

You can only have one thought at a time
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43min
February 13, 2024 Intro Season 7
Welcome back to the ebb & flow podcast! In this episode is a intro for this season, as well as the intros from the previous seasons.
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6min

FAQs about Ebb and Flow with Solomon Ezra:

How many episodes does Ebb and Flow with Solomon Ezra have?

The podcast currently has 108 episodes available.