Dear Friends,
“Who is G-d? What is G-d?” This week’s talk begins with that question and evolves from there! Join us for a free wheeling tour through ideas ranging from basic beliefs to the giving of the Torah to achieving harmony in a world where all of us are given certain desires in our hearts and then told not to act upon them! What sense does that make? A lot actually, as we explore the role human beings play in restoring balance to the universe.
Dear Friends,
When we received the Torah at Mount Sinai, Hashem looked at the pureness of our hearts and asked, who will guarantee that our hearts will remain like this always? We said that “we” would guarantee it. But the Gemara teaches (Avodah Zarah 5a) that that was the wrong answer! We should have said “Hashem, You guarantee that we stay this way!” Contained here is a fundamental lesson about gratitude and how to avoid the trap of relating to ourselves when we are really trying to connect with G-d.
Dear Friends,
Four amazing “coincidences” happened to me this week. I’ve been trying to wrap my brain around this subject for quite a while now and bring you fresh info from the never ending search to decode life.
PS – Here is the link I promise in the talk. It’s another incredible story.
Dear Friends,
We all desperately want to be happy. But how? In this week’s talk we lay out a detailed program for success in this most crucial area of life.
http://torahonitunes.com/audio/AProgramForHappiness.mp3
Dear Friends,
Our Holy tradition teaches that Hashem created the world with the letters of the aleph-bais. With this in mind, our Sages teach in the Talmud (Shabbos 104) that there is a system called A”t B”ash where we reimagine words by exchanging the last letter of the alphabet for the first letter, the second to last letter of the alphabet for the second letter and so on. More than just “playing games” to derive new spellings, the Sages are offering us a new portal into accessing the infinity of the Torah. In this talk we deeply explore the geometry of this world and the next, and the opportunities available to us only in the here and now.
Dear Friends,
Best Friend? So many of us think of Hashem as either our Father, or our King or our Master — but Best Friend? Is that even a possibility? Where in the Torah does it say that? Well, I’ll tell you! In Mishle 27:10 it says, “Do not forsake your friend and the friend of your father”. Our Rabbis teach us that this friend refers to Hashem! The question is how do we make that all important first step?
Dear Friends,
Dear Friends,
How many wings does an angel have? This may sound like the most esoteric of questions, but the Torah actually tells us the answer — and even better how many they have today (hint – two fewer). We also discuss the story of Yoseph and how he prepared for his fateful encounter with his brother before he was sold.
Dear Friends,
When Hashem gave us the Torah at Mount Sinai the Kabbalists say that He pronounced the letter Aleph. Now all that is well and good — except the letter Aleph is silent! We explore the meaning of this paradox while also looking into the nature of beauty, Yoseph and Chanukah.
