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Shavuot through the years

Shavuot teachings over the years.
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Chanukka Through the Years

Just as eyes are windows to the soul, so the Chanukka lights are
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Addiction and Higher Teshuvah: Rosh HaShana 2023

You might be surprised to hear that addiction is as old as humanity
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Rosh HaShana Through the Years

A bounty of teachings on how to prepare for Rosh HaShana and how
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Malchut Sh’b’Malchut

To describe the king as “entangled in the tresses” is to assert that
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Sifra, Sefer, Sippur

The Torah, says Sefer Yetzira, is really three in one. There’s the Torah
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The Reward of a Mitzvah

The Zohar is teaching that HaShem (so to speak) looked into Him/Her/Itself and
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The Seder as a Meditation on MATZAH

As we evolve and enlighten in the course of the evening we project
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Chanukka through the years

Just as eyes are windows to the soul, so the Chanukka lights are
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Black Fire on White Fire: Torah of Atzilut

This Torah of Atzilut was what Adam would have received had he not
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Converts: Unsung Heroes of the Oral Torah

Shavuot 5778 / 2018 "And you shall know the soul of a convert,
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A Chanukka Meditation from the Zohar

Those who seize this occasion to meditate on the Chanukka lamps will be
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The Torah of Atzilut: The Torah of Souls

Shavuot 2016 /5776 At Sinai we got the Torah of Atzilut—the Torah of
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A Short Discourse on Freedom

Pesach 2016 /5776 The reward phase of history called the world-to-come is characterized
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Topsy-Turvy Gluon Dance: Purim 2016 /5776

Relationship is a dynamic endeavor for it combines two contradictory poles—merging and differentiating—that
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“These Lights are Holy…”: An Instruction for Meditation

Chanukka 2015 / 5776 Our simple affirmation now becomes a deep teaching about
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Master of Prayer — Tisha b’Av, 5773 / 2013

During the three weeks our obligation is to decrease simcha. We focus on
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Dewdrops of Light–Shavuot 5773 / 2013

 When HaShem revealed the Torah at Sinai, the Israelites died at every word.
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Shavuot (Inspired by Meor v’Shemesh)

Jacob’s ladder reaches up through the worlds to the inwardness of G-d called
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Tisha b’Av, 5771 / 2011

Tisha B’Av 5771 / 2011 Sarah Yehudit Schneider We are about to observe
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Prayer Before Study

אבי, אדוני, דודי We (I) enter into this study in order to draw
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Studying Prayerfully

This essay can also be viewed in pdf format. This essay was published
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Textual Study As Meditation

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Tisha B’Av, 5769 / 2009

Tisha B’Av1, 5769/2009 “Jerusalem…her impurity is in her hems” (Lamentations 1:9). Anyone who
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Tisha B’Av, 5768 / 2008

Tisha B’Av, 5768 / 2008 based on Zohar 3:158a Everyone knows that Tisha
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