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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Ebb and Flow with Solomon Ezra episodes:

February 01, 2024 The Heart’s Wisdom: Grasping Beyond Thought
Class on Women & Messianic Insights, celebrating before redemption, Wisdom of the heart, and anniversary of passing of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson, as well as guided meditation of a yechidus (private audience) with the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
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26min
January 07, 2024 Finding the Answers — Inside yourself
Class delivered at yeshiva about empowerment in the Messianic era. Learning chassidus and following its ways leads a person to realize that at his core is really G-d Himself. Watch/ listen to this class for 3 steps on looking inward and sitting with discomfort to discover the answers you’re looking for.
Previous class on the Messianic era: Messiah will come when we least expect it
• Messiah will come when we least expect it
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28min
November 28, 2023 The Messiah will come when we Least Expect it
In honor of completing a full year studying at Hadar HaTorah yeshiva, I gave a class on meditation, Davenen (prayer), the teaching of our Sages (Gemara Sanhedrin 97a), that, “Moshiach will come B’hesech hadaas” (lit. when we aren’t expecting him), and then guided a meditation.
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Additionally, this week’s Torah portion is Vayeitze, which was the portion of my bar mitzvah 14 years ago.
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May we internalize and open our eyes to being in Jerusalem with Moshiach in a way better than we can imagine.
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28min
December 28, 2022 90: The Goal of Chassidus | Rabbi Naftoli Hertz Pewzner
Show Notes for Part 2 of Interview with Rabbi Pewzner:
Goal of chassidus
Struggle of the body and the soul
What is the Messiah and Who is Messiah?
The role of Moshiach, the days of Moshiach
What will Moshiach do?
The Yechida Effect
The Torah was given for Peace (Shalom)
Dirah Bitachtonim
Who is G-d?
We won’t be teaching others because “all with know Me” - 14 minutes
The best thing is to be yourself
The mission of chassidus is for us to be truly who we are and be at peace with who we are in a way that we can be super active - 16:20
Tools to apply what we learn - Avodas Hashem (how to serve G-d)
How can a person really internalize this? — 20 min
Chassidic Meditation — 21 m
What do you invite in your consciousness once you achieved presence?
How to experience the neshama?
Neshama (soul) Frequency and
ChaBaD approach to uncalm complexities (29:30).
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41min
December 13, 202289: The Basics of Chassidus Part 1 | Rabbi Naftoli Hertz Pewzner
Show Notes:
Story and background

what is Chassidus Chabad

Experiencing *The Pintele Yid - “*The Jewish Dot”

Start off with questions

Viewing life not from motivations but based on your identity, which can become your key motivator

Chassidus is not to create another denomination. Jewish People are divided enough. Appreciate what it means to be a Jew - 29 min

Layers of the soul - the highest being the yechida

Rather than it be abstract, chassidus embraces it as something relevant and relatable

The Basics of Chassidus
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42min
June 09, 2022 88: Health Series 6: Clarity in Knowing Who You Are | Rabbi Manis Friedman
Show Notes
Mentioning a discourse I learned in Guatemala and a personal lesson from it
The tool of Meditation
Recap of previous 5 episodes
3 kinds of commandments - orientations towards mitzvahs
4 kingdoms - inanimate (mineral), vegetable, animal, and human
Yesod - foundation, fundamental
The 10 commandments were engraved on a stone
How to do a mitzvah like a mineral
The word for decree without a reason also means engraved
24:30 What’s the difference between engraved and writing?
Become the mitzvah, engraved in your heart
Doing mitzvot in the way like a mineral is a great unifier
What did the Baal Shemtov love about the simple Jew?
28:55 How to apply this into your daily life?
Doing something as you learn, not only doing it once you understand it
Unconditional love
Is something natural a virtue?
Don’t make conditions
No need to justify real love
Sincere it is what it is vs insincere it is what it is
41:44 There’s nothing more real than what doesn’t need justification
Difference between Married and not married
Concluding this series
45:30 Life is about intimacy with G-d
50:00 What do purpose of tools become? At first they were helping you get where you need to be. After the fact, you have gotten them where they need to be. They started off as secular personal stuff, now you’ve turned them into support for mitzvahs. They’ve become part of your Godly life so you’ve elevated them. They need you more than you need them.
The essence of Shavuot
There’s nothing more comfortable and satisfying when you can just be yourself
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54min
June 01, 202287: Health Series 5: The Dance between the Mind and the Heart | Rabbi Manis Friedman
Show Notes:
the greater the darkness, the closer to transformation

relationship between mind and heart

by nature the mind controls everything

getting the heart to obey the mind is being healthy

how does the heart do its own thing without consulting the mind? It’s like sleepwalking

How do we bring back the healthy relationship between mind and heart?

animal soul and G-dly soul dynamic

each soul has its own mind and emotions

you didn’t lose control, you gave yourself permission rationally

governed by intelligence and not by emotions

dance between mind and heart, the mind must lead

“don’t get mystical, don’t get spiritual, just get healthy. A healthy person is the master of his ship.”

getting body to neurologically change its behavior

changing the animal soul’s mind

nothing more powerful than the will to get the body to behave

transformation is partly in the mind and partly in the soul

when a person feels stuck is when there’s trauma

thorough lasting change

Getting the mind back in charge

if emotions get very inflexible, it is the heart not the mind

nothing changes you more than discovering the purpose for which you exist

how does the mind affect the heart?

What kind of control does it have?

it can make the heart a little more flexible

the heart can’t think, but it let go.

loosening up the emotion

emotion is not the final outcome

don’t believe everything you feel
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1h 2min
May 25, 202286: Health Series 4: Living a Fluid, not Rigid, Jewish Lifestyle | Rabbi Manis Friedman
Show notes:
introducing today’s topic

what’s a stronger motivator - personal benefit or serving a larger cause?

Intention or kavana to serve

the importance of self-love … healthy or not?

don’t confuse the validity of being healthy with the obsession of being healthy

Does it make sense to say, “the more you love yourself, the more you’ll love others?”

Everyday do something you hate? — Mark Twain

Feels right or feels familiar?

When Hillel went to eat he said he’s going to feed a healthy body

Rigidity comes from self

Which is less forgiving? Christianity or Judaism?

Not judging you, but measuring what you accomplish for G-d

Awkward or Rigid

Mussar and religion

Can you spread some of your love to others?

Human nature is such that you love yourself. The mitzvah is to give some of that love to others

What does tzedaka mean?

Turn your (self) love outward

Don’t assume people don’t love themselves

The two most significant days in your life - the day you’re born and th

e day you figure out why — Mark Twain

Why was I born? Live your life knowing why you were born.

feeding others is a pleasure, feeding myself is a chore

Have a sense of humor about yourself

What’s a good self-image?

What’s the best response to how are you?

What does Baruch Hashem mean?
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1h 8min
May 11, 202285: Health Series 3: The Foundation of Mindful Eating | Rabbi Manis Friedman
Show Notes:
relating our episode to Yitzchak digging wells of his father Avraham

what are the servants of Yitzchak? Thoughts, speech, action

observing and thinking

The servants must know their master

Who is your master?

Know where you’re going to be healthy

what it means to be “in alignment with Hashem?” Less about me

Beyond my “self”

Affirmations and Positive thinking

Miracle of affirmation is: I say I am okay even though I think I am not

Power of positive words and act of smiling

14:30 - Dig to the living waters (neshama) through the servants, which can move the soul to a better place

16:30 - Don’t stop doing

The amazing effect of song

18:15 Never wait until something is right before you let your servants do their work

20:00 intermittent fasting

Cause and Effect with eating

Is food giving you life or are you putting the food to its use? Who’s the recipient or the actor?

28:40 Eat by conviction, not by taste buds

31:00 Story of Reb Shmuel Munkus

Every now and then break the habit of what you’re eating

36:00 Practicing a little self respect

Awareness helps... even if not immediately

Having what to eat is a blessing and a reward

38:40 What did I do to deserve this meal?

46:20- 47:05 Joke about an atheist

Foundation of mindfulness when it comes to food

G-d said to eat

Never be a servant to a servant
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58min
May 04, 202284: Health Series 2: Healthy Thinking for Healthy Eating | Rabbi Manis Friedman
How do we get healthy?

Mindset aspect of health

Attitude towards [seeming] problems

Nisah means to elevate

There is a cause and effect to everything

Relationship with food

It’s not by bread alone that man lives- don’t become subservient to the food.

Mindset #1: You’re the master. eating for a purpose

Tools to help notice if hungry or feeling stressed

When you’re feeling down, you eat which means you’re begging the food to give you life -

It’s unhealthy to eat when you’re needy

Food cannot give you life, it can maintain the life you have

You cannot sit by the table with a sour face - Rabbi Friedman’s mother

why do we eat in the first place?

Mindset #2: I am Healthy

Healthy Mindsets are most important than health [25 min]

The question is not about how healthy is the food, rather it’s how healthy are you?

Food can be Healthful, but food itself is not healthy

Be a healthy person - one attracted to food most healthful

Eat for a Heavenly purpose - you are Heaven compared to the food.

You are what you eat. What you eat becomes what you are. The objective is for the food to become you, not the other way

Spiritual side of Anorexia

Eat until you’re not hungry, not until you have no appetite. The hunger has to be satisfied, not the capacity

Mindset 3: Approach it with enthusiasm

Eat less and don’t be picky

Healthy attachments

Mindset 4: Flexibility

What’s my purpose?

Power of words and describing situations
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55min

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.