Classes

You Vs. Yourself – Mitzvah Garments, The Bridge To The Infinite.

by

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (55.7MB)

Subscribe: RSS

An infinite distance exists between us and G-d. This gap can’t be bridged through our efforts. Even the deepest mind or the most powerful love can’t connect us truthfully to G-d. The only way to bond with G-d is through the performance of a Mitzvah in which he reaches across this infinite space to connect with us.

You Vs. Yourself – The Soul Gets Dressed

by

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (53.8MB)

Subscribe: RSS

When we perform Mitzvos Our soul’s garb themselves in the three holy garments of thought speech and action. Particularly,  when we study Torah our mind is enveloped and garbed in a holy thought and in the performance of Mitzvos our emotions are wrapped in holy words or a holy action.

Ki Sisa – Ki Sisa Es Rosh 5731

by

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (177.3MB)

Subscribe: RSS

When we make mistakes in our lives we fix them through a process of  Teshuva in which we regret our past and refocus our energy towards goodness. What about the damage done to our souls on a core level beyond the reach of our conscious mind? What about the shame at the essence of our souls, for having wasted a moment or a lifetime on trivial matters and not fulfilling our G-dly mission for which our souls descended? A dialog between Moshe and G-d about healing the scars and repairing souls at their quintessential core.

You Vs. Yourself – The Three Garments Of The Soul

by

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (57.6MB)

Subscribe: RSS

The garments of each soul – thought, speech and action – are deeply integrated, but remain external components. A person’s intelligence or emotions cannot be disconnected or completely stopped, and cannot express themselves on their own. However, the garments of thought, speech and action are the tools, or vessels, which can convey the inner state of a person, and can be halted on demand. Each of the two souls has its own set of garments, and are drawn to activities which actualize that soul’s personality and desires.

You vs. Yourself – Daas, The Bridge From Mind To Heart.

by

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (31.2MB)

Subscribe: RSS

When a person performs a proper meditation on the greatness of Hashem, he will be filled with a complete awe of G-d’s glory, and it humbles the person in a powerful way. Sometimes, after a meditation, one will erupt in a fiery love of G-d, a desire to break out of the constraints of one’s physical body and unite with G-d. In order for these effects to fully manifest within the person, he must fully apply his mental faculties to truly understand the greatness of G-d, and then contemplate on it, and identify with it.

[flowplayer src=YouVsYourself/YouVsYourself-7.flv, width=640, height=480]

You Vs. Yourself – Meditations Of The Soul

by

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (63.6MB)

Subscribe: RSS

Exercising our spirituality is essential to the development of our G-dly soul. The first task is to stimulate our souls G-dly intellect, by striving to learn and understand Hashem and meditating on his relationship to the world. When done properly this will surely stimulate a powerful emotion towards G-d.

[flowplayer src=YouVsYourself/YouVsYourself-6.flv, width=640, height=480]

Beshalach – Vayomer Moshe Ichluhu Hayom

by

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (203.1MB)

Subscribe: RSS

A Fascinating discourse about the manna. Of the subjects discussed are: The relationship of the manna to Shabbos. The difference of the spiritual effects of eating during the week and the eating of Shabbos. The difference of our Shabbos prayers and our weekday prayer. Our ability to connect in a very real way to that which is beyond time and space.

You Vs. Yourself – Getting To Know The Personality Of Our Souls

by

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (60.6MB)

Subscribe: RSS

Each of our two souls has an inner experience and an outer, expressive garment. There are ten essential powers or traits of the soul, categorized as intelligence or emotions, which define a personality. Our souls are derived from G-d, therefore these powers of the soul reflect the ‘divine personality’ with which G-d chooses to confine himself when relating to the creation.

[flowplayer src=YouVsYourself/YouVsYourself-5.flv, width=640, height=480]

Beshalach – Lehavin Inyan Lechem Mishne Class 2

by

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (26.3MB)

Subscribe: RSS

An exploration of the spiritual dynamics of eating. How we can strengthen the powers of our souls when we  eat properly. We even bring an added dose of potent energy into all of the spiritual cosmos through proper intentions while eating. The manna that the Jews ate for forty years in the desert had even greater spiritual powers. Finally Shabbos is greater then the manna therefor it didn’t fall on Shabbos.

Beshalach – Lehavin Inyan Lechem Mishne Class 1

by

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (38.2MB)

Subscribe: RSS

An exploration of the spiritual dynamics of eating. How we can strengthen the powers of our souls when we  eat properly. We even bring an added dose of potent energy into all of the spiritual cosmos through proper intentions while eating. The manna that the Jews ate for forty years in the desert had even greater spiritual powers. Finally Shabbos is greater then the manna therefor it didn’t fall on Shabbos.

You Vs. Yourself – “Souls” some higher some lower

by

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (56.0MB)

Subscribe: RSS

As souls descend through the divine realms into our physical world, some retain their supreme spirituality, others acquire layers of physicality that conceal the soul’s true desires. Most of us, born with these ‘covered’ souls, harbor a strong ego, which drives and influences our actions. The Tzaddikim, our leaders, are born with pure souls and live in constant awareness of G-d. They are channels of the divine, and when the Jewish people connect with their Tzaddikim, they are connected and elevated to much higher levels.

[flowplayer src=YouVsYourself/YouVsYourself-4.flv, width=640, height=480]