Pesach not only celebrates the birth of the Jewish nation… from a family humbled by slavery to a treasured, beloved, exalted people… but it also celebrates our own personal growth process as we develop from slaves to our instincts and physical desires… into exalted human beings who radiate light and choose good, and holiness and a loving relationship with our Source and Creator.

In this podcast, based on the teachings of Sarah Yehudit Schneider, we will touch briefly on a couple of ideas, specifically about eating matzah at the Seder.

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What’s so great about Man?

One reason is that we're the only creation that can connect heaven and earth. 

We’ve got an intelligent soul within a physical body that is capable of choosing connection with its source... making a connection between heaven and earth... connecting between the Creator and His creations. No other creation can create conscious connection. This happens when we tune in to our soul... the soul of infinite light that is held in our physical body. And sometimes we can “feel” this light as it moves through us, by slowing down and going inside. 

This meditation helps us relax and tune in to our connection with our soul of infinite light... rooted in the heavens and anchored into this physical world.

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Pull up a chair and join me in my Sukkah for a few minutes! (Listen for the birds singing in the background!) And learn how to build yourself a spiritual sukkah you can carry with you always!

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What does “Yom Kippur” actually mean? What does the word “atonement” mean??? Yom Kippur is about a completely new start. It’s about clearing our debts and becoming clear ourselves, so that our soul shines through the physicality of the body.

Yom Kippur is the special time that makes this possible.

Yom Kippur is the “reset” that brings us to a new beginning.

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Welcome to the fifth episode in the Elul series—“It’s All About Relationship!”

This episode is a little different. It’s a ten minute meditation to help you slow down and connect to the Holy One, and there are two different options! I’m guiding one and my husband, Shaul Gedalyah is guiding the other. They’re both identical... just the voices are different. (The link to Shaul Gedalyah’s recording is below.)

So take ten minutes to connect. Sit back, get comfortable and enjoy! And please have a wonderful, meaningful Rosh Hashanah! May you and yours (and all good people everywhere) be blessed for a sweet, sweet year!

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Welcome to the fourth episode in the Elul series—“It’s All About Relationship!”

In this episode we talk about balancing between the run and the return of our lives. Running down to the world is easy for us... our lives are made up of taking action... whether we’re working for our bread and butter or taking care of our family. What’s more difficult is to remember to take time for connecting with our souls and with God.

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Welcome to the third episode in the Elul series - “It’s All About Relationship!”

In this episode we talk about how our work in this lifetime is two-fold... we’re here to build and grow into the unique potential that is our birthright, and we’re also here to come close to God in holy union. This dance of expansion into our divine souls and contraction into our busy daily lives is the dance called “Run and Return,” and it’s reflected in all of Creation.

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Welcome to the second episode in the Elul series - “It’s All About Relationship”!

In this podcast we’ll talk about how God’s creation of an “other” from His Oneness, is reflected in the Torah through the story of Adam and Chava... and how the debacle of the Tree of Knowledge fundamentally changed their—and our—relationship with Him through time.

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Relationship is really the template for everything.  Before creation, there was only God. He was ALL, filled all, existed for all time…perfect and complete. But since there was no other, in some mysterious sense, He was missing the experience of giving goodness to an “other.” He was missing the experience of actualized relationship….

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