Live Kabbalah: Living from the Soul

In this teaching from our weekly Tanya class, Miriam continues into Chapter 13 and the Benoni, the in-between person that each one of us can be. She looks at the two impulses within us as internal judges, one that speaks in fear and one that speaks in love, and the tender teaching that G-d Himself is the third judge who helps the good in us. All of this in the light of Elul, when the King is in the field and G-d comes out to meet us exactly where we are.

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The name of this week's portion is Re'eh, which means "See." From its very first word, the Torah is teaching us how to look. Life sets a blessing and a curse before us, and so much of our work is learning to see the blessing that is hidden inside the challenge.

In this reflection we explore the nisyonot, the tests we each move through, and how they are not obstacles on the path but the very doorway of it. Every test is an invitation to see more deeply, to trust that Hashem is present even in the difficulty, and to find the miracle quietly waiting inside it.

May we all be blessed to truly see, to meet our tests with faith, and to uncover the blessing and the miracles that surround us always.

Just six days after the breaking of Tisha B'Av, the calendar turns to its very opposite. Tu B'Av, the fifteenth of Av, is named by our sages as one of the most joyful days of the entire year.

The moon that went dark at the start of the month now stands full again. The mourning of the Temple gives way to love, to reunion, and to the quiet promise that what was broken can be mended.

Our sages describe how on this day the daughters of Jerusalem would go out to dance in the vineyards in borrowed white dresses, so that no one would be shamed for having less than another. The whole day is built on a love that lifts everyone equally, the healing of the very baseless hatred that brought the destruction.

This is the secret of Tu B'Av. The same month that holds the deepest fall also holds the return of love. Redemption is not born only from the breaking. It is born from the love we choose afterward.

May this Tu B'Av open your heart to love given and love received, and may it draw the final redemption near.

Mem is the mother letter, the first sound a child makes, and it carries us back to the waters we were formed in.

In this Exploring Oneness class we delve into the letter Mem: water and maim as life force, the higher and lower waters, Mem as Binah and the patience of gestation, the open Mem and the closed final Mem, the mikvah and the four Yuds hidden within, and the sacred silence where something is quietly being born in us.

One question runs underneath it all. Can I allow something to develop before I demand clarity?

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Rabbi Amichai

As we enter Tisha B'Av, the day of the destruction of both Temples, this reflection is an invitation not to run from the pain but to sit with it, face to face, and to meet Hashem in the very place of the breaking.

This year we have been cracked open, by war, by turmoil, by watching the old structures fall. Tisha B'Av asks us not to reach for the quick distractions, but to go inward and become present to the true strength underneath.

The foundations of the Temple are still intact. On the deepest level there is no destruction, only a phase that cannot hold, as Hashem lifts us to a higher frequency. This is why Tisha B'Av is called a mo'ed, a holiday, and why our sages teach that Mashiach is born at the very point of the destruction. Mashiach is a tzemach, a sprout, growing slowly, then rising in the blink of an eye into a strong tree bearing fruit.

May this Tisha B'Av reveal the greatest growth, and the coming of Mashiach.

Amen

There is a sight deeper than the eyes. This teaching is about the power of vision, the ability to see with your soul the fullness you are truly seeking, even when everything around you looks broken.

We explore a remarkable teaching of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, that each of us is being shown something we cannot yet see with our physical eyes, and that what we are being shown is real. Wherever there is destruction, the opposite pole is already present, rebuilding, wholeness, joy and peace.

At the heart of this teaching is a question that is yours to answer. What are you truly yearning for? What is your temple? What is the fullness, the inner peace, the joy you are seeking? And can you bring it into a living, palpable vision in front of you?

This is an invitation to rise above the brokenness and to see the wholeness that is already there, waiting for you to see it.

Wishing you joy, light, wholeness and peace.

Rabbi Amichai Cohen, live class, July 12, 2026. This is the opening teaching portion of the Light Warrior Path Week 4 class.

There is the true I, which is a portion of the Creator and whose nature is to give. And there is the fragmented I, the animal self, whose nature is to receive for itself. Before the sin, Adam and Eve lived in constant connection to the Source, with no ego blocking the flow. That is the Tree of Life. After the sin there is duality, and there is now something outside of me.

Three Hebrew words share the same letters. Tinok, a baby, who must take, and who can live inside a grown person for a lifetime. Tikkun, the fixing, which is most of a life and which asks not whether giving is good but why I am giving. And nituk, disconnection, not from life but from the charade, from needing the result.

And then the question that makes it practical. What am I actually bowing down to?

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Greetings and blessings for the new month of Av, which literally means father, and carries the energy of Leo, the lion. The Midrash says a lion came on the month of the lion and destroyed the lion, so that the Lion, G-d, can come back and build the lion. Nebuchadnezzar, the great lion, destroys the Beit HaMikdash, called Ariel, the crouching lion, so that Hashem, "Ariel sha'ag, mi lo yira," will rebuild it. Av is ferocious, raw father energy that can wound or warm. Beneath the calamity we are eternally beloved, "Banim atem," the children of G-d. The point of the mistake is not to stay in it, but to rise into the awareness of our Father's love. On the first of Av is the hilula of Aharon, a har, a mountain, carrying the aleph of humility and the nun that draws strength down to every person. Not to wallow in what was, but to be empowered, to trust, and to rekindle with the lion within. May we see the rebuilding of the Beit HaMikdash.

A short teaching for the Hillula of the Ramak, Rabbi Moshe Cordovero, one of the great masters of Tzfat. We look at his life, the Pardes Rimonim and the Tomer Devorah, his teaching that the secret of enlightenment lives in one word, Shema, and the meaning of his passing on the 23rd of Tammuz, during these Three Weeks.

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The letter Kaf is the vessel that curves inward to make room. In this teaching from our Exploring Oneness and Meditation series, Rabbi Amichai Cohen follows the Kaf from Binah, the understanding that builds, down into the palm of the hand that receives in order to give. This is EOM 105 in the Mystery of the Hebrew Letters.

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