The letter Tzaddik stands upright like a tree, rooted and still reaching. In this class, taught between Yom Kippur and Sukkot, Rabbi Amichai Cohen opens the Kabbalah of the Tzaddik through the etrog, the fruit that stays on its tree through every season.

We look at the bent Tzaddik, who knows how to choose his battles and sometimes be smart rather than right, and the straight Tzaddik, the foundation of the world who carries blessing all the way down. We learn why Tzaddik is ninety and why at ninety we learn to bend, how tzedek becomes tzedakah, how tzar (constriction) holds tzur (the rock inside you) and tzohar (a window of light), and why the palm tree teaches that there is no retirement from your calling.

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The final two letters of the Hebrew year 5787, peh and zayin, spell paz: fine gold.

Rabbi Amichai Cohen explores this image as an invitation to discover the treasures within us. What are we communicating through our words? How can the seven sefirot help us bring inner growth into everyday life? And how do we use the tools around us with greater presence?

A teaching on Hebrew letters, Malchut, and the work of uncovering our inner gold.

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As we enter the two days of Rosh Hashanah, the head and mind of the entire year, Rabbi Amichai Cohen opens the inner work of these days: how to stand in awe (yirah) while holding a deep, internal joy (gila).

In this episode:

- Why Rosh Hashanah is called the mind and brain of the year, and the elevated consciousness it asks of us

- "Ivdu et Hashem b'yirah, v'gilu bir'adah" - serving God with awe, and rejoicing with trembling

- The letters of Tishrei and the movement from below to above

- Gila versus simcha: the inner joy of Rosh Hashanah and the external joy of Sukkot

- Mima'amakim, calling God from the depths, and the Zohar's ten levels of depth

- The gevurah of Yitzchak, omek and gevurah, and how strength itself is joined to joy

Shana Tova U'Metuka - wishing you a great, incredible new year, sweetness and joy in all aspects.

A short teaching from Rabbi Amichai Cohen for the 25th of Elul—the day associated with the beginning of Creation. As Rosh Hashanah approaches, pause to reconnect with the purpose, possibility, and Divine intention woven into the world and into your own life.

The Hebrew letter Peh means mouth, yet it also reveals the relationship between our face, our inner life, and the words we bring into the world. Rabbi Amichai explores Peh through Elul, Moshe’s calling, the King in the field, the shofar, and the blessing of the Kohanim. This class offers a grounded way to understand teshuvah as closing the distance between what is within us and what we show.

What prepares a people to carry Torah into ordinary life?

As Moshe transfers leadership to Yehoshua, the Jewish people are leaving the miraculous life of the desert and entering the Land of Israel. They will need courageous leadership, the guidance of Torah, and the strength of community.

In this short teaching on Parashat Vayelech, Rabbi Amichai explores the mitzvah of Hakhel: once every seven years, men, women, children, and the stranger gathered to hear the Torah read aloud. They came to listen, to learn, and to renew their awe of G-d together.

Sources: Devarim 31:7-13; Rashi on Devarim 31:7, 31:9-12; Mishnah Sotah 7:8.

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Choose Life: What Are You Here to Give?

The Torah tells us:

“I have placed life and death before you, blessing and curse. Choose life, so that you and your descendants may live.”
Devarim 30:19

Choosing life is more than wanting to live. It means choosing goodness, purpose, growth, and what we are here to give.

In this short reflection on Nitzavim–Vayelech, I share a powerful teaching for preparing ourselves for Rosh Hashanah and the new year ahead

Rabbi Amichai continues the teaching of the letter Ayin through the two unities of the Shema.

Higher unity reveals that nothing exists outside G-d. Lower unity asks us to live faithfully within the apparent separateness of creation, bringing oneness into the body, the animal soul, our choices, and the ordinary details of life.

The class also explores garments of skin and light, Chai Elul, the Baal Shem Tov and Alter Rebbe, and the inner preparation for Rosh Hashanah.

The Hebrew letter Ayin means both eye and wellspring. Its numerical value is 70, the number of many facets returning to one source.

Rabbi Amichai explores ayin tovah, the good eye, the difference between discernment and judgment, the 70 facets of Torah, and Yosef's ability to remain rooted in G-d while living visibly in the world.

The teaching closes with a simple question: What am I looking at, but not truly seeing?

Watch the full class:

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Continue with the guided Ayin meditation:

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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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