Dear Friends,
Somewhere between the hidden and the revealed, between the great salvations of Purim and Pesach, between yesterday and tomorrow, lie our lives. This talk covers the blessing over clouds, how Hashem manifests His might through silence, and basic faith.
http://torahonitunes.com/audio/BasicFaith.mp3
Dear Friends,
Can we stay in Purim for just a little while longer? Since Purim is all about things flipping over for the good, I thought it would be cool to look at the word Purim in At Bash to see what new levels we can uncover. Lots of interesting concepts, including an explanation of the philosophy of the At Bash system itself.
A Fork In The Road
Dear Friends,
One of the most remarkable passages in the Torah is when Mordecai turns to Queen Esther and says, rest assured that Hashem is going to save the Jewish people — the only question is are you going to be part of it? (4:13) Using this passage as a springboard we look into the parameters of free choice and how Mordecai’s words still echo in our lives today.
Dear Friends,
Tons of ideas in the this one relating to Purim, happiness, purity, hiddeness, acceptance of Torah, gematria, pregnancy, bris mila, butterflies, and hope. Nothing compares to Purim!!!!
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.
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?
