In this shiur we explore the meaning of "b'emunaso yichyeh", how to experience life as an all-encompassing experience of connection with the Divine, transforming our more limited understanding of Torah and mitzvos from "laws" and "restrictions" to an immersive program for consciousness expansion.

This class is kindly sponsored by Bernard Bollag as a zechus for the refua shleima of Tinoket bat Gila Zissel.

Themes: Background to the Torah, 2 kinds of sechel, mental friction to produce emotional heat, 7 openings in the face, lighting the menorah of our mind, hilchos Succah.

In this shiur, we continue our journey through sefer Yichud HaHisbodedus, exploring what it means to put external aspects of a relationship in proportion, as well as the importance of maintaining our own sense of self within the context of relationship.

This class is kindly sponsored by Bernard Bollag as a zechus for the refua shleima of Tinoket bat Gila Zissel.

Themes: Mitzrayim as tikkun habris/daas, why do we want to come back to EY?, the waning support of the west, Jewish identity, the rectification of everything relies on the consciousness of penimiyus haTorah.

This class is kindly sponsored by Bernard Bollag as a zechus for the refua shleima of Tinoket bat Gila Zissel.

Themes: Recieving support from Edom to return to Eretz Yisrael, maintaining exilic traits of Humility and Sensitivity, difficulties with secular Zionism, a different approach to resolving the conflict, why things had to be this way.

This class is graciously sponsored by Bernard Bollag:

‏לעילוי נשמת אמי מורתי שרה דבורה חיה בת יהושוע

ולעילוי נשמת מרים בת יהושוע ויהושוע בן אברהם יהודה שנספו בגזרת השואה

and Deborah Jacobi in honour of her beloved father, Aryeh Leib ben Shlomo, of blessed memory.

In this shiur on Rebbe Nachman's Sichos HaRan, we explore #142, a revelation regarding how to counter the energy of the Yetzer Hara, #143 about the cause of physical and spiritual fever, #144 about the teachings Rebbe Nachman revealed in nature, and #145 regarding the incredible delight we bring Hashem when we turn Torah into Tefillah.

In this shiur we explore the evolutionary arc of individual humans and humanity as a whole - developing past "simply faith" into a more "sophisticated" and scientific worldview of secularism, until the pain of the existential angst caused by living in a world without meaning drives us back into faith once more.

In this shiur we explore why the verbal formulation used to create a halachic marriage are "negative", exclusionary in nature as opposed to addressing the marriage itself.

This shiur is sponsored anonymously לרפואת ליאורה הדסה בת רחל שבע.

Themes: Using confidence when teaching, our eternal grace, coming back to Ererz Yisrael with humility, the secret of "V'eschanan", Moshe's hitting the rock.