The Kabbalistic Mystery of Nesira

Though nesira means surgical uncoupling, it only severs back-facing, addictive bonds. Its uncoupling actually initiates a higher, willful, and more rectified recoupling.
ELUL AND THE THIRTEEN ATTRIBUTES OF MERCY

Elul and the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy Each month comes with its special lights and gifts and energies. And mostly we learn about the month from the correspondences presented in the Sefer Yetzira. Each month has a letter, a special sensitivity, a part of the body and an astrological sign. The Sefer Yetzira informs us […]
Tisha B’Av — A Potent Meditation

Av is the month that includes the most fateful day in the Jewish calendar, Tisha B’Av, which is distinguished by its extremely fallen state and yet its extremely great potential.
Dewdrops of Light: Shavuot 5785/2025 (reprint)

When HaShem revealed the Torah at Sinai, the Israelites died at every word… Hashem revived them with the dew that He will use to resurrect the dead.
Shavuot through the years

Shavuot teachings over the years.
A Short Lag B’Omer Teaching

The passion lights of the gevurot, when unpacked and enlightened by their matching lucid-lights, produce all the bliss of future times.
The Four Questions

The hagada is transmitting lights and instructions on many levels. There is information about history and many deep secrets about how the universe works and what freedom really means.
Purim High Council Prayer and Meditation Happening for Women

We are Inviting women from around the world to join the actual Jerusalem-based event via zoom (enabled by Shifra Hendrie who has offered her expanded zoom link for the occasion). And…
Sharing the nusach/script of the ceremony so you can prepare for the event and, if you are unable to join our Jerusalem ceremony, you can create your own High Council, either on your own or with friends.
Purim High Council Email Announcement

A REAL LIFE, DIVINELY CHOREOGRAPHED, נהפוך הוא רַעֲוָא דְּרַעֲוִין ♦ Through a miraculous turn of events, HaShem and his angelic agents, have let it be known that the Purim High Council Prayer and Meditation Happening for Women must go on in full array, with ample space to gather and shine. Unbelievable!!! An angel appeared on […]
Purim Invite 2025

AN INVITATION… To Women Far and Wide to Participate in a Ground-Breaking, Soul-Awakening Event: The 34th Annual “Purim High Council Prayer and Meditation Happening for Women” (that will also be available via Zoom) In this part of the world we are preparing for Sarah Yehudit’s 34th annual open-house Shushan-Purim-Dance-and-Learn-Seuda-for-Women featuring the Purim-High-Council-Prayer-and-Meditation-Ceremony. However, this Holy […]
Tu B’Shvat Hagada for Sale

The Still Small VoiceTu B’Shvat Hagada, fifteen years in the making, is finally available for public enjoyment.
The Klipah Precedes the Fruit

The passion lights of the gevurot, when unpacked and enlightened by their matching lucid-lights, produce all the bliss of future times.
Tu B’Shvat Through the Years

Paradox: A Chanukka Dilemma (Video)

Hanukkah teaches us how to survive exile and how to accomplish the purpose of it.
Chanukka Through the Years

Just as eyes are windows to the soul, so the Chanukka lights are windows into the soul of the chag.
Classes Starting Up

Sarah Yehudit is back to teaching, but with a reduced schedule. She is teaching one zoom class and one in-person class on her new book: “Dark Matters of the Soul ~ The Kabbalah of Shame.” An exploration of the origin, purpose and mystery of shame as viewed through a Torah lens BENEATH EACH SUMMARY IS […]
A House For Himself, Sukkot For His Herds

The Torah reports that after this huge test, victory, and blessing Yacov headed straight to sukkot:
Video: On Yom Kippur, Leave Your Begging Bowl at the Door

The Sod Yesharim suggests a very powerful practice to get the most out of our highest of holy days, Yom Kippur.
Yom HaZikharon: Our Holiday of Remembrance

Recite before me the verses of remembrance, that your remembrance shall arise before Me for good. And through what? Through the shofar.
Video: Rosh HaShana and the Kabbalistic Mystery of Nesira

You might be surprised to know that Rosh HaShana is not only Day of Judgement and the Day of Remembrance, it is also, says kabbala, the Day of Nesira (surgical uncoupling). This is a short teaching about that profound dimension of Rosh HaShana.
Rosh HaShana Through the Years

A bounty of teachings on how to prepare for Rosh HaShana and how to direct one’s intentions on the day itself. Teachings about teshuva, prayer and shofar.
The Link Between Shame and Baseless Hatred

We are defining shame as the discomfort produced when the ego feels diminished or deflated. We are defining sinat chinam as baseless hatred, meaning hatred that has no justification, that has no basis to it.
Achdut, A Tisha B’av Video by Sarah Yehudit Schneider, 2024

An inspiring and practical teaching on Tisha B’Av 2024 by Sarah Yehudit Schneider
Tisha B’av Video by Sarah Yehudit Schneider, 2023

Explores the metaphoric question of, “Does God cry?”
Tisha B’Av Teachings Through the Years

Tisha B’Av teachings over the years (2007-present).