Category: Holiday Teachings
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.
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
Purim Invite 2025
AN INVITATION… To Women Far and Wide to Participate in a Ground-Breaking, Soul-Awakening
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.
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.
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?"
Esther’s Ruach HaKodesh
Life is filled with crossroads that rarely have signs to mark the way. Each person must find the God–serving truth that applies to this unique circumstance and this moment in time.
Turning Wisdom into Oral Torah
Our Written Torah is fixed and final. Its sequence of letters, spacings, stories and commands is sacred and static. A scribal error of even a single letter invalidates the entire scroll. Its authority derives from its constancy. Our Oral Torah is the opposite—it is always changing and expanding. Not a second passes that does not leave it enriched by some new insight discovered in that moment somewhere on the planet. The Oral Torah lives and evolves.
This Year…. Next Year….
Is there such a thing as a "free gift," and is it something to pray for and believe in?