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In this lesson, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath explores one of the deepest ideas in Kabbalah: Atzmut, the Absolute Essence of Hashem. After learning about Mimaleh, the Divine energy that fills the world, Sovev, the Divine energy that transcends the world, and Ratzon and Ta’anug, will and delight, this class goes deeper still.

What is beyond nature? What is beyond miracles? What is beyond what we understand, feel, or experience? Kabbalah teaches that Hashem is not only found when the sea splits. He is also found when the heart beats, the lungs breathe, the body works, and an ordinary day quietly becomes a gift.

This lesson helps us stop waiting for dramatic inspiration and begin recognizing Hashem in real life: in mitzvahs, gratitude, prayer, relationships, patience, and the small choices that turn the world into a home for G-d. Based on the attached Atzmut chapter.

Key Takeaways

1. Nature is G-d hidden in a pattern: Teva is not the absence of Hashem. It is Hashem concealed inside the steady rhythm of creation.

2. Miracles are G-d breaking the pattern: Nissim reveal that Hashem is not limited by nature, systems, habits, or expectations.

3. Atzmut is beyond both nature and miracles: Hashem is not defined by hiddenness or revelation. He can be found in both, because He transcends both.

4. The greatest miracles are often the ones we stop noticing: Breathing, waking up, walking, healing, functioning, these are not “ordinary.” They are constant gifts.

5. Faith must move from makif to pnimi: It is not enough for faith to hover around us as inspiration. It has to enter our thoughts, speech, and actions.

6. Atzmus is revealed in simple mitzvahs: The highest Divine Essence is not only found in mystical experiences. It is revealed in lighting candles, giving tzedakah, putting on tefillin, saying a bracha, and choosing kindness.

7. Don’t wait to feel spiritual before living spiritually: The beinoni may not control every feeling, but can choose thought, speech, and action.

8. The goal is Dirah B’Tachtonim: Hashem wants a home here, in this world, in this body, in this relationship, in this moment, even before the coffee fully kicks in.

#KabbalahForEveryone #Atzmut #chassidus #ChabadChassidus #JewishWisdom #PracticalKabbalah #NatureAndMiracles #Teva #Nissim #DivineEssence  #spiritualgrowth #JewishSpirituality #TorahForLife #InnerWork 

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What is the difference between doing what is right and actually loving what is right? Kabbalah teaches that two powerful forces shape our inner lives: Ratzon, the power of will, and Ta’anug, the deeper experience of delight. Ratzon gives us the strength to act even when we do not feel inspired. Ta’anug is the inner sweetness we experience when our choices become aligned with who we truly are.

In this lesson, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath explores the spiritual journey from obligation to connection, from discipline to joy, and from simply showing up to discovering that holiness can feel like coming home.

The goal is not to wait until we feel inspired before doing what is right. It is to use holy will to educate the heart, until the truths we once struggled to choose become the truths we genuinely love.

Key Points

• Ratzon means will: the power to choose, commit, and move forward.
• Ta’anug means delight: the inner sweetness of living in alignment with the soul.
• Will is often the beginning of spiritual growth, while delight is a deeper stage of internal connection.
• We do not need to understand or feel everything before taking the first meaningful step.
• Na’aseh v’nishma teaches that action can open the door to deeper understanding.
• Acting with kindness before feeling kind is not hypocrisy; it is emotional and spiritual maturity.
• Our feelings are real, but they do not always deserve to control our actions.
• A passing desire may be loud, while a deeper delight can be quiet and true.
• We can train our hearts to find joy in prayer, Torah, mitzvot, honesty, generosity, and healthy relationships.
• The goal of Judaism is not dry obedience, but loyalty that grows into love and delight.
• Repeated acts of holy will educate the heart.
• The truth we once obeyed can eventually become the truth we love.
• A spiritual life becomes real when inspiration enters our choices, habits, and relationships.
• The deepest question is not only, “What do I want?” but “What kind of person do I want to become?”

#Ratzon #Taanug #WillAndDelight #Kabbalah #KabbalahForEveryone #JewishWisdom #spiritualgrowth #SpiritualDiscipline #FindingJoy #InnerPurpose #SoulAlignment #JewishSpirituality #EmotionalMaturity #personalgrowth 

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How can an infinite G-d be present in the ordinary details of our lives? Kabbalah teaches that we experience Divine energy in two ways: Memaleh, the light of G-d that enters our world in a form we can understand and absorb, and Sovev, the Divine presence that remains larger than anything we can fully comprehend.

In this lesson, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath explores how these two spiritual forces shape our faith, our growth, and our everyday lives. Some moments give us clarity, direction, and practical understanding. Other moments leave us in awe, reminding us that life and G-d will always be greater than our explanations.

True spiritual growth requires both: the inspiration that expands us and the practical vessel that allows that inspiration to become part of who we are.

Key Points

• Memaleh is the Divine light that enters our lives in a way we can understand, absorb, and apply.
• Sovev is the Divine presence that surrounds and transcends our understanding without ever being absent.
• G-d’s hiddenness does not mean G-d is gone; sometimes concealment creates the space we need to grow.
• Inspiration becomes transformation only when we build a vessel through habits, choices, mitzvot, and healthier actions.
• Without practical structure, spirituality can remain vague and temporary.
• Without mystery and wonder, spirituality can become limited to the size of our own understanding.
• Healthy spiritual growth requires both clarity and awe, grounding and expansion.
• The purpose of a spiritual experience is not to escape ordinary life, but to return to it more awake, compassionate, and purposeful.
• Some truths are meant to be understood, while others are first meant to be honoured and lived.
• The surrounding light fulfills its purpose when it inspires inward change.

#Kabbalah #Memaleh #Sovev #FindingGod #chassidus #chabad  #JewishWisdom #mysticism #Faith #JewishSpirituality #KabbalahForEveryone #KabbalahForLife #kabala #chassidut #ChassidicTeachings

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In Lesson 6 of Kabbalah for Everyone, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath continues the journey into Becheyn, the practical result of everything we learn.

This class explores how the deepest hidden truths of Torah are not meant to remain hidden. They are meant to become visible in our speech, relationships, choices, mitzvahs, and daily life.

Through the Chassidic language of Neshama and Guf, soul and body and Nigleh and Nistar, the revealed and hidden dimensions of Torah, this lesson shows that Judaism is not asking us to choose between heaven and earth. It is asking us to bring heaven into earth.

The goal is not inspiration that floats. The goal is truth that lands. A soul without a body remains unexpressed. A body without a soul becomes mechanical. But when soul and body work together, hidden wisdom becomes revealed life.

Key Takeaways

1. Becheyn means the bottom line: Every deep idea must eventually ask: What changes because of this? How does this truth become real in my life?

2. Creation is built with tension: Kabbalah teaches that Hashem created a world of opposites, hidden and revealed, soul and body, heaven and earth, not so they remain enemies, but so they can be transformed into harmony.

3. A soul without a body is not the goal: Spiritual inspiration without practical action may feel beautiful, but it has not yet fulfilled its mission.

4. A body without a soul is also incomplete: Action without meaning can become dry, automatic, and disconnected. The body needs the light of the soul.

5. Nigleh and Nistar need each other
Nigleh gives us structure, law, and practical direction. Nistar gives us depth, fire, and inner meaning. Together, they create a living Judaism.

6. The hidden must become visible: The deepest truths of Torah are meant to show up in how we speak to our family, handle frustration, give tzedakah, pray, forgive, work, and respond to life.

7. Becheyn is spiritual honesty: It asks us to stop admiring ideas from a distance and begin giving them an address in real life.

8. One small action can embody a great truth: A kind word, a restrained reaction, a moment of prayer, a mitzvah done with intention — this is how the infinite enters the ordinary.

#KabbalahForEveryone #Rabbiyisroelbernath #Becheyn #PracticalKabbalah #chassidus #ChabadChassidus #JewishWisdom #NeshamaAndGuf #SoulAndBody #NiglehAndNistar #HiddenTruthVisibleLife #TorahForLife #spiritualgrowth #InnerWork #AvodasHashem #MindHeartAction #LivingTorah #JewishSpirituality #PracticalJudaism #SoulWisdom #WednesdayMorningKabbalah #Kabbalah 

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In this special episode, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath opens his heart to the worldwide community that has grown around the podcast.

The podcast is more than a weekly teaching. It is part of the larger mission of Chabad NDG: creating spaces of belonging, supporting students and families, helping people through crisis, and bringing Torah, healing, hope, and Jewish wisdom into everyday life.

With the annual Chabad NDG raffle now 80% of the way toward its goal, Rabbi Bernath invites listeners to become active partners in sustaining this work. Every raffle ticket helps keep the doors open, in Montreal, online, and in the hearts of people around the world.

As a special gift, supporters will also receive access to the new Kabbalah for Everyone platform, featuring audio and video courses, practical spiritual tools, deeper teachings, and a growing community of people committed to learning and growth.

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In this special class in honour of his birthday, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath explores one of the most misunderstood human traits: sensitivity. While the world often tells us to toughen up and grow thicker skin, Chassidus teaches that the goal is not to suppress our emotions but to refine them. Drawing from Tanya, Torah Or, Likkutei Torah, and the teachings of the Rebbeim, Rabbi Bernath explains that some souls are created to feel more deeply because they are called to illuminate more deeply. Participants discover the difference between being emotionally controlled and spiritually refined, learn why criticism, overwhelm, and empathy affect certain people so intensely, and gain practical Chassidic tools for transforming emotional vulnerability into inner strength, purpose, and closeness to G-d.

Key Points

Why some people are born with “thinner skin and deeper souls.” 

The world’s advice: harden yourself. Kabbalah advice: refine yourself. 

The exposed nekudas halev (point of the heart) and the spiritual gift of deep feeling.

The soul’s descent into the world as a mission of refinement, not self-protection.

The difference between iskafya (self-mastery) and ishapcha (inner transformation).

Why feeling overwhelmed does not mean you are failing spiritually.

Learning to distinguish between the voice of fear and the voice of the soul.

Healthy boundaries without losing compassion.

Transforming criticism, rejection, and emotional pain into spiritual growth.

How sensitive people can become extraordinary sources of healing, empathy, leadership, and light.

Practical daily Chassidic exercises for emotional resilience and refinement.

A birthday reflection on gratitude for the unique mission of every soul.

#Kabbalah #Sensitivity #SensitiveSouls #chassidus #Tanya #Rabbiyisroelbernath #JewishWisdom #EmotionalHealth #spiritualgrowth #InnerHealing #Refinement #Iskafya #Ishapcha #NekudasHalev #soul #emotionalresilience #MentalWellness #purpose #SelfMastery #HeartOpen #BirthdayClass #personalgrowth #chabad #Transformation #DeepSouls 

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In Lesson 5 of Kabbalah for Everyone, Rabbi Bernath explores the Chabad idea of becheyn, the practical result, the bottom line, the moment when an idea stops being “beautiful” and starts becoming life-changing. The lesson teaches that authentic spiritual growth is not complete when we understand something, or even when we feel inspired by it. It becomes complete when it changes how we speak, react, choose, love, restrain ourselves, and live. In classic Kabbalah fashion: mind must guide the heart, the heart must energize action, and Torah must find an address in real life.

Key Points

1. Becheyn means the bottom line: The question is not only, “What did I understand?” but “What changed because of it?”

2. Mind and heart need a practical landing place: Sechel without action can become cold. Emotion without direction can become chaotic. Becheyn brings both into life.

3. Tanya teaches that the brain can rule the heart: We may not choose every first feeling, but we can often choose what happens next.

4. Deed is essential: Study matters deeply, but its purpose is to shape actual behavior.

5. Daat makes truth personal: It is not enough to visit an idea. We need to stay with it until the idea visits us and begins to shape us.

6. Brilliance without conclusion can avoid transformation: Sometimes we hide behind complexity. Becheyn asks: what is the next honest step?

7. The Three Night Questions create daily accountability: What did I do today? What could I have done today? What deeper truth do I want my life to reflect?

8. Soul and body both matter: Spirituality is not escaping real life. It is bringing the soul into the body, the home, the schedule, the conversation, and the choices.

9. Nigleh and Nistar need each other: The revealed Torah gives structure. The hidden Torah gives fire. Together, they create grounded holiness.

10. The real test of inspiration is the next ten minutes: One apology. One boundary. One softer response. One mitzvah with intention. One less sarcastic remark. That is becheyn.

#Kabbalah #KabbalahForEveryone #RabbiBernath #Becheyn #chabad #ChabadWisdom #PracticalKabbalah #Tanya #PirkeiAvot #MindAndHeart #Daat #JewishWisdom #chassidus #spiritualgrowth

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In the last lesson, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath introduced the Chassidic teaching of Sechel and Middot, the mind and the heart and how the mind can teach the heart how to feel.

In this Lesson 4, we go deeper. This class explores one of the most honest human struggles: Why do we often know what is right, but still feel pulled in the wrong direction? Why doesn’t the heart automatically follow what the mind understands?

Kabbalah teaches that information alone does not transform us. A thought has to be contemplated, personalized, and internalized until it becomes emotionally alive.

This lesson is a practical guide to helping the heart listen: in relationships, parenting, prayer, anxiety, anger, and personal growth. Not by shutting down emotions, but by educating them. Because the goal is not to become less human. The goal is to become a more guided, more aligned, more G-dly human.

Key Points

1. Knowing is not the same as feeling: We can know something is true and still not live from it. Kabbalah asks us to move truth from the head into the heart.

2. The heart does not change through information alone: The heart changes through reflection, repetition, and personal connection. A cold idea needs to become a warm reality.

3. Sechel gives birth to Middot: In Kabbalah, emotions are meant to be born from understanding. When we deeply contemplate something, it eventually shapes how we feel.

4. Middot al pi Sechel is emotional maturity: The goal is not to silence emotion. The goal is emotion guided by clarity, truth, and purpose.

5. Anger, anxiety, love, and fear all need guidance: Every feeling has energy. Sechel helps us ask: Where should this energy go? What is this feeling trying to teach me?

6. Real growth happens in the pause: Between the feeling and the reaction, there is a sacred space. That is where the mind can teach the heart.

7. Kabbalah is not abstract spirituality: It is a way of seeing your real life differently, your marriage, your parenting, your prayer, your stress, your choices, your Tuesday afternoon meltdown over an email.

#KabbalahForEveryone #Rabbiyisroelbernath #SechelAndMiddot #WhenTheHeartListens #MindAndHeart #chassidus #ChabadChassidus #JewishWisdom #PracticalKabbalah #InnerWork #EmotionalGrowth #spiritualgrowth #Kabbalah #chassidus 

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In Lesson 3 of Kabbalah for Everyone, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath explores one of the most practical ideas in Kabbalah: the relationship between Sechel and Middot — the mind and the emotions.

We all know the struggle. Sometimes our mind knows the right thing, but our heart is not interested in attending the meeting. Other times, our emotions are so strong that our mind becomes the intern in the back of the room taking notes. Kabbalah teaches that healthy living is not about shutting down emotion, and it is not about letting feelings run the show. The goal is Middot Al Pi Sechel, emotions guided by wisdom. In this class, we’ll learn how intellect can give direction to emotion, how emotion can give warmth and life to intellect, and how real spiritual maturity happens when the mind and heart stop fighting and start becoming partners. Based on the chapter “Sechel and Middos: Intellect and Emotions.”

Key Takeaways
1. Sechel means the mind: Sechel is our ability to think clearly, step back, analyze, and ask: What is true? What is right? What is really happening here?
2. Middot means the heart: Middot are our emotions and character traits — love, fear, anger, compassion, desire, excitement, frustration, and kindness.
3. The mind alone can become cold: A person can understand something intellectually and still not be moved by it. Knowing the truth is important, but it has to become alive in the heart.
4. Emotions alone can become messy: Feelings are powerful, but without guidance they can go too far. Even love can become unhealthy when it has no boundaries.
5. Kabbalah wants partnership, not domination: The goal is not for the mind to crush the heart or for the heart to hijack the mind. The goal is for the mind to guide the heart, and the heart to energize the mind.
6. Real love is not always giving someone what they want: Sometimes love says yes. Sometimes love says no. The parent taking a dangerous object away from a child is not being cruel; that is love guided by wisdom.
7. Avraham’s kindness was not wild kindness: Avraham Avinu embodied chesed, but his kindness was guided by truth and purpose. That is the model of healthy emotion: warm, powerful, and directed.
8. Emotional maturity means pausing before reacting: Before we act from a feeling, we ask: Is this feeling true? Is it proportionate? Is it helping me become the person Hashem wants me to be?

#KabbalahForEveryone #Rabbiyisroelbernath #SechelAndMiddot #Sechel #Middot #MindAndHeart #chassidus #ChabadChassidus #JewishWisdom #PracticalKabbalah #EmotionalGrowth #spiritualgrowth #InnerWork #Kabbalah #KabbalahForRealLife #kabala #qabbala

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In Lesson 1, we introduced the Chassidic concepts of Halbashah and Hafshotah, how a deep idea becomes clothed in language, story, metaphor, and practical form, and how we can strip away the outer layers to uncover the essence within.

In Lesson 2, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath takes these ideas deeper and makes them real. This class explores how Halbashah and Hafshotah are not only tools for understanding Kabbalah, but tools for living with more clarity, compassion, and purpose. How do we understand a person beyond their behavior? How do we translate spiritual inspiration into actual change? How do we look beneath emotional reactions, relationship struggles, and inner confusion to discover what is really going on?

Sometimes life needs to be explained. Sometimes life needs to be peeled back.
 And sometimes, with a little Chassidus, we realize the “problem” was only the garment, not the essence.

Key Takeaways

1. Deep truth needs clothing: A lofty idea only changes us when it becomes understandable, relatable, and practical.

2. Not everything on the surface is the essence: A reaction, habit, fear, or conflict may be real — but it may not be the deepest truth.

3. Halbashah helps us bring inspiration into action: If an idea remains abstract, it can be beautiful but useless. Chassidus teaches us to bring it down into daily life.

4. Hafshotah helps us see beneath the noise: Instead of getting stuck in the drama, we learn to ask: What is really happening underneath?

5. Relationships require both movements: We need to “clothe” love in actual behavior, and we need to “unclothe” conflict to see the vulnerable human being underneath.

6. The goal is not to escape real life: The goal is to bring the deepest truths of the soul into the ordinary moments of Wednesday morning.

#KabbalahForEveryone  #Rabbiyisroelbernath #Halbashah #Hafshotah #chassidus #ChabadChassidus #Kabbalah #JewishWisdom #PracticalKabbalah #spiritualgrowth 

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