Rabbi Tuvia Serber

In this week's reading we find the story of Nadav and Avihu, two sons of Aharon that perished "while getting close to God". However we find in a previous reading, parashat Shmini, that they perished because they offered a "strange fire that God did not command". What's the connection between these two reasons that the… Leer más »Parashat Acharei Mot - Getting close to God

In this class I describe an aspect of the interaction between the intellectual expression of the soul and it's emotional expression: emotions are created by the mind.

This week we don't read a specific parasha (section of the Torah). Rather, we read about Pesach itself. In the reading of prophets after the Torah (Haftara) we read Ezekiel's chapter 37 about the dry bones. What's the connection to Pesach?

The festival of Pesach - Passover gives us an eternal message of transcendence over our own limitations.

In this week's Torah reading we learn how was the process of purification of a person that had Tzaraat, a miraculous disease that produced stains and patches in the skin, garments and walls. There's a deeper way of understanding what this person actually was. The connection to 11th of Nissan, birthday of the Rebbe.

This class is a part of a chassidic discourse pronounced by the Rebbe, Rabi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, on the year 1984. On this discourse the Rebbe explains the spiritual meaning of Moshe and Aharon, how that meaning applies to our service to G-d (Torah and Prayer) and how it relates to the obligation on the… Leer más »They were Aharon and Moshe 5744 - 4

In this class I start describing the structure of the human soul and point out that that structure is actually the structure God Himself decided to create in order to express it and show something of Himself to us.

This class goes through the text (in Hebrew) of the Psalm explaining the different positions our sages and commentators take on it.

In this week's reading, called Tazría (to give birth) the Torah starts with the laws of a miraculous disease: Tzaraat. Stains and patches would appear in a person's skin, garments and walls. Our sages teach how the process of the disease would go and the Chassidic thought brings a deep explanation of our sages words,… Leer más »Parashat Tazria - Do you have stains?

There are two tools spoken about in the Chassidic teachings of Breslov and Chabad: Itbodedut (introspection / talking to God) and Itbonenut (Meditation). What are they?