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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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
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

FAQs about Ebb and Flow with Solomon Ezra:

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

The podcast currently has 112 episodes available.