Category: Shavuot

Sifra, Sefer, Sippur

The Torah, says Sefer Yetzira, is really three in one. There’s the Torah of Bereshit, the Torah of Sinai, and the Torah of souls. Our job, says the Baal Shem Tov, is to unify these three Torot with every word we speak and breath we take.

Shavuot through the years

Shavuot teachings over the years (2008-2016).

The Reward of a Mitzvah

The Zohar is teaching that HaShem (so to speak) looked into Him/Her/Itself and articulated a will for a creation that would revel in the glory of G-d. That vision and all the myriad ways it could materialize and all the laws that define its parameters…that is the primordial Torah.

Black Fire on White Fire–Torah of Atzilut

This Torah of Atzilut was what Adam would have received had he not opted for duality, preferring Knowledge of Good and Evil over the Tree of Life’s non-dual Knowledge-of-the-Holy-One. It is also the Torah that we received at Sinai, but forfeited when we too betrayed its calling.

Converts: Unsung Heroes of the Oral Torah

Shavuot 5778 / 2018 Sarah Yehudit Schneider “And you shall know the soul

Turning Wisdom into Oral Torah

Shavuot 5777 / 2017 Sarah Yehudit Schneider If it’s truth then it’s also Torah.

The Torah of Atzilut — The Torah of Souls

Shavuot 2016 /5776 Sarah Yehudit Schneider The Torah revealed at Sinai (on Shavuot) is

“HOW MANY FACES HAS THE HOLY ONE…”

Shavuot 5775 / 2015 Sarah Yehudit Schneider תאנא כמה פנים לפנים אית ליה

Like it Or Not, We Are In This Together

Shavuot 2014 / 5774 Sarah Yehudit Schneider The Torah’s revelation at Sinai was

Dewdrops of Light–Shavuot 5773 / 2013

When HaShem revealed the Torah at Sinai, the Israelites died at every word.

Shavuot 5772 / 2012 (Inspired by Meor v’Shemesh)

Jacob’s ladder reaches up through the worlds to the inwardness of G-d called

Shavuot 2011 / 5771

Sarah Yehudit Schneider When a person sees 600,000 (or more) Jews gathered in

Shavuot, 5770 (2010) – Based on Sod Yesharim (Radziner Rebbe)

While HaShem revealed the Torah no bird chirped, no fowl flew, no ox

Shavuot 2009 / 5769

Sarah Yehudit Schneider Shavuot, the anniversary of the Torah’s revelation, is called the

Shavuot 2008 / 5768

A Shavuot Torah 2008 / 5768 Sarah Yehudit Schneider based on Tsidkat HaTsadik 193,