Illustrated Video Teachings

Illustrated Video Teaching: On Tisha B’Av we mourn the loss of our House of Holy Presence (aka Bet HaMikdash), the heart of our people, that turns us from a throng into a higher order unity [...]

Part 3 of our series on CHOICE & FATE explores  the “Reconciliation of Human Choice and Divine Omniscience”. This third Illustrated Video Teaching proposes creative resolution of [...]

Part 2 of our 3-part series on CHOICE & FATE explores the chaotic interface between them. This Illustrated Video Teaching examines the Talmudic distinction between “higher mazal” [...]

A kabbalistic exploration of Choice vs Fate based on a teaching of the Ari (R. Isaac Luria) that illuminates a particularly relevant feature of Quantum Mechanics. This is the first of a [...]

A spiritual path asks its adherents to walk their talk.  Yet that is easier said than done. Most of us are challenged by the obstacle of Strange Fire.  Meditation, and in particular the practice [...]

One of the most difficult and subtle challenges of a spiritual path is the matter of “strange fire” which we’ll define as: “taking pleasure from something that violates one’s own [...]

Prayer is called “service of the heart” because it’s challenge (and calling) is to commune with Divinity heart to heart. That happens  naturally in spontaneous prayer but with [...]

Textual Study as Meditation alternates study with meditation in a way that dissolves their boundaries and eventually fuses them. It is the best of both worlds.

Our break from work on Shabbat creates an atmosphere of rest that permeates both body and soul. But if we also meditate we harness the principle of resonance to bring the peace of Shabbos into [...]

This FIFTH video teaching on Jewish meditation explains how meditation, and in particular the practice called Speaking Truth to Lie,  is a powerful agent of Tikun Olam (mending the world). This [...]

This FOURTH video teaching on Jewish meditation, explains how meditation expands  our field of awareness to include (at least parts of) our unconscious self. And it provides an opportunity to [...]

Labeling as a Meditation Tool — Lesson 3 Judaism is a fourfold path. There are physical practices that rectify the body, prayer that cleanses the heart, meditation that stills the mind, and [...]

Benefits and Obstacles of Meditation — Lesson 2 Judaism is a fourfold path. There are physical practices that rectify the body, prayer that cleanses the heart, meditation that stills the [...]

Judaism is a fourfold path. There are physical practices that rectify the body, prayer that cleanses the heart, meditation that stills the mind, and Torah study that awakens the deepest layer of [...]

How do I become a patron of paradox without compromising my moral convictions? That is the question explored in this new video called, “The Quagmire of Moral Relativism.”

This video teaching, called Varieties of Paradox, is a summary of the different types of paradox that we encounter in the world. People expressed confusion because we have introduced so many [...]

This illustrated video teaching, called The Hashmal Jig 3/3, is the ninth installment in our series on Paradox.  It examines the second step of our Hashmal Jig—the need to make a choice despite [...]

This video teaching, called The Hashmal Jig 2/3, is the eighth installment in our series on Paradox. It develops the kabbalistic secret of Hashmal—the energy of consciousness generated from [...]

This video teaching, called The Hashmal Jig 1/3, is the seventh installment in our series on Paradox. It introduces the kabbalistic secret of Hashmal—the energy of consciousness generated from [...]

This illustrated video teaching, called Poleholders, is the sixth installment in our series on Paradox.  It uses the polarity of Truth and Faith to model a way of grappling with paradox that [...]

This illustrated video teaching is the fifth installment in our series on Paradox.  It explores the mystical underpinnings of  I-Centers and how they interact to produce a whole greater than the [...]

This Illustrated Video Teaching introduces the concept of I-centers—an extremely useful tool for sorting through the complexities of paradox. It is always good to build an idea from the ground [...]

Hanukkah teaches us how to survive exile and how to accomplish the purpose of it.  And that brings us the paradox of “isolation and integration” as you shall see. We recommend viewing [...]

“The Cosmic Roots of Paradox” is the third in a series of video presentations that explore Paradox as a Kabbalistic Path of Expanding Consciousness.” It explains why a deepening relationship with [...]

“The Mission” is the second in our illustrated video series called “Paradox: A Kabbalistic Path of Expanding Consciousness.” These video teachings provide insights and practical [...]