Inward with Rabbi Joey Rosenfeld

Tanya - Chapter 2: Wondrous Light of the Soul and the Impossible Secret of Unity within Difference

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2026 61:33

Join Rabbi Joey Rosenfeld as he guides us through the world and major works of Kabbalah, Hasidic masters, and Jewish philosophy, shedding light on the inner life of the soul.Support Reb Joey's Torah: ⁠⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/support⁠⁠

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Otzros Chaim 7 | Kav: The Return of Infinite Light Back Into The Void

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2026 39:43

In this shiur, Reb Joey explores the kav—the thin ray of Infinite Light that enters the chalal after the tzimtzum. The shiur develops the relationship between the reshimu and the kav, and the deeper idea of kivui: hope as the opening through which Divine light can penetrate even the experience of absence.Support Reb Joey's Torah: ⁠⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/support

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Teshuvah: Identifying with Our Soul, Thinking More about Hashem, and Remembering the Ease of Return

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2026 30:13

Join Rabbi Joey Rosenfeld as he guides us through the world and major works of Kabbalah, Hasidic masters, and Jewish philosophy, shedding light on the inner life of the soul.Support Reb Joey's Torah: ⁠⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/support⁠⁠

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Adir BaMarom (Ramchal) 106: The Full Meaning of Hair and the Ability for the Young to Already be Old

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2026 22:41

Join Rabbi Joey Rosenfeld as he guides us through the world and major works of Kabbalah, Hasidic masters, and Jewish philosophy, shedding light on the inner life of the soul.Support Reb Joey's Torah: ⁠⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/support⁠⁠

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Teshuvah: Drawing the Infinitesimal Yud of Chochma into a Demonic World and the Secret of Teshuvah

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2026 26:33

Join Rabbi Joey Rosenfeld as he guides us through the world and major works of Kabbalah, Hasidic masters, and Jewish philosophy, shedding light on the inner life of the soul.Support Reb Joey's Torah: ⁠⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/support⁠⁠

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Tanya 5: Short Introduction to Chapter 2 and the Light of Chochma within the Soul

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2026 17:03

Join Rabbi Joey Rosenfeld as he guides us through the world and major works of Kabbalah, Hasidic masters, and Jewish philosophy, shedding light on the inner life of the soul.Support Reb Joey's Torah: ⁠⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/support⁠⁠

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Motzei Shabbos: The Indestructible Core

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2026 36:50

R' Joey Rosenfeld explores teshuvah, Motzei Shabbos, and the Eitz HaChaim through the teachings of Rav Tzadok, the Baal Shem Tov, and Rebbe Nachman—revealing the etzem haluz, the indestructible core of emunah that can never be erased.Support Reb Joey's Torah: ⁠⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/support⁠⁠

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Teshuvah: Spiritual Exhaustion, Joyous Refusal of Despair and the Endless Light of Hopeful Ascension

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2026 32:00

Join Rabbi Joey Rosenfeld as he guides us through the world and major works of Kabbalah, Hasidic masters, and Jewish philosophy, shedding light on the inner life of the soul.Support Reb Joey's Torah: ⁠⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/support⁠⁠

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Adir BaMarom (Ramchal) 105: Concealment is Disclosure and the Secret of Garments that Reveal

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2026 29:33

Reb Joey explores the hidden order within the apparent entanglement of lived experience. Through the mystical imagery of the se'aros—the hairs through which higher light descends into the worlds—we encounter the difference between the simplicity and clarity of the upper realms and the complexity, doubt, and fragmentation of life below.Support Reb Joey's Torah: ⁠⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/support⁠⁠

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Tanya 4, Chapter 1: Affirming the Inherent Goodness of the Soul Before Descending into Work of Fixing

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2026 70:18

Reb Joey continues opening the Tanya by reframing its demanding path of avodah within a deeper atmosphere of goodness, calmness, and Divine presence. Exploring the relationship between Chochmah and Binah, the tzaddik and the beinoni, he asks how we can affirm the irreducible goodness of the soul while still taking seriously the endless work of becoming.Series page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/series/tanya⁠⁠Support Reb Joey's Torah: ⁠⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/support⁠⁠

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Otzros Chaim 6: The Persistent Trace of Infinite Light

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2026 38:21

Reb Joey explores the reshimu—the persistent trace of Ohr Ein Sof that remains after the tzimtzum. Through the teachings of the Arizal and Chassidus, he explains how Divine presence can remain hidden yet fully present, and what this means for emunah, bittul, and finding Hashem within apparent absence.Series page: ⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/series/otzros-chaimSupport Reb Joey's Torah: ⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/support⁠⁠

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Teshuvah: Happiness as the Goal of Existence, and the Joyful Path of Letting Go and Letting G-d

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2026 46:20

Drawing on Rebbe Nachman, the Baal Shem Tov, and the Rebbe Rashab, Reb Joey explores joy not simply as an emotion, but as a deep awareness of Hashem's ever-present goodness—a freedom that comes through letting go of self, relinquishing the need to control, and learning to receive life as a gift.Support Reb Joey's Torah: ⁠⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/support⁠⁠

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Teshuvah: Searching out the Hidden Trace of Goodness and Light that has Never Actually Disappeared

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2026 27:01

Reb Joey explores the mystery of the rishimu—the trace of Divine light that remains even after the light itself seems to disappear. Drawing on the language of tzimtzum, Chazal, and the teachings of the tzaddikim, we discover that absence is never truly empty: the very experience of longing, distance, and searching can itself reveal the presence that appears to be hidden.Support Reb Joey's Torah: ⁠⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/support⁠⁠

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Adir BaMarom (Ramchal) 104: Unentangling Entanglement and Grasping the Beautiful Order of Everything

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2026 17:33

In this shiur, Reb Joey explores the hidden order within the apparent entanglement of lived experience. Through the mystical imagery of the se'aros—the hairs through which higher light descends into the worlds—we encounter the difference between the simplicity and clarity of the upper realms and the complexity, doubt, and fragmentation of life below.Support Reb Joey's Torah: ⁠⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/support⁠⁠

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Elul: Taking Everything Less Seriously and Laughing our Way into New Possibilities of Closeness

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2026 30:37

In this Elul shiur, Reb Joey explores teshuvah not as a return driven by fear, shame, or self-judgment, but as a movement back toward the love and closeness that have never truly disappeared. Through teachings of Rebbe Nachman and the tzaddikim, we discover the surprising role of laughter, joy, and lightness in breaking through the heaviness of the year—and in remembering that every descent can become the beginning of a deeper return to Hashem.Series page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/series/tanya⁠⁠Support Reb Joey's Torah: ⁠⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/support⁠⁠

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Tanya 2, Part 2: The Compiler's Introduction - Uncovering the Light of the Tzaddik within Ourselves

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2026 29:46

Continuing the Alter Rebbe's introduction, Reb Joey explores the unique power of the writings of tzaddikim—not merely as sources of information, but as vessels carrying the light and presence of their authors. Tanya emerges as a deeply personal book of guidance, love, and healing, helping each person discover the tzaddik within themselves while navigating the work of growth and avodas Hashem.Series page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/series/tanya⁠⁠Support Reb Joey's Torah: ⁠⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/support⁠⁠

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Tanya 2, Part 1: The Compiler's Introduction - A Face to Face Encounter Folded into a Book

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2026 27:08

Reb Joey begins the Alter Rebbe's introduction to Tanya by exploring why the sefer is called a “collection of teachings” and how the arrangement of Torah itself can reveal something entirely new. From there, he enters the central question of the introduction: how can a fixed book speak personally to every individual, almost as if one were encountering the tzaddik face to face?Series page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/series/tanya⁠⁠Support Reb Joey's Torah: ⁠⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/support⁠⁠

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Otzros Chaim 5: Concealment for the Sake of Revelation

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2026 45:28

Reb Joey enters into the Arizal's description of Tzimtzum—the concealment that allows what existed only in potential within the Infinite Light to emerge into actual revelation. Exploring the mysterious “center point,” the relationship between concealment and revelation, and the movement from infinity into limitation, Reb Joey shows how the Arizal's cosmic map speaks directly to avodah: discovering Hashem's presence within apparent absence and limitation.Series page: ⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/series/otzros-chaimSupport Reb Joey's Torah: ⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/support⁠⁠

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Otzros Chaim 4: Why Hashem Created the World

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2026 48:34

Reb Joey explores the reasons given by the Arizal for the emergence of the worlds—from revealing the Divine Names to bestowing goodness and compassion upon creation. The shiur moves from cosmic questions into deeply personal avodah, exploring rachamim, bittul, and the possibility that the lowest places of human experience are precisely where Hashem desires His light to be revealed.Series page: ⁠⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/series/otzros-chaim⁠Support Reb Joey's Torah: ⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/support⁠

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Adir BaMarom (Ramchal) 103: Order at the Heart of Existence and the Good and Beautiful Joy that Flows

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2026 27:37

Continuing in the Ramchal's Adir BaMarom, Reb Joey explores the tikkunim of the hairs of the Golgalta and the way infinite light begins to take shape within the structures of revelation.Through the interplay of Ma and Ben, Tohu and Tikkun, we begin to see how apparent chaos is gathered into order, balance, and particular expression.Explore more teachings and resources: ⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org⁠⁠Support Reb Joey's Torah: ⁠⁠https://inwardtorah.org/support⁠⁠

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Accepting Ourselves with Holy Confidence and Living As-If We are the Only One in the World

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2026 26:14

How can we serve Hashem without constantly measuring ourselves through the imagined judgment of others?In this shiur, R. Joey Rosenfeld explores the healing light of the Baal Shem Tov as a path toward emunah, inner calm, self-acceptance, and holy confidence. Each person possesses a unique spiritual path, hunger, and offering that cannot be brought into the world by anyone else. Learning to say, “For me the world was created,” means becoming grounded in our own relationship with Hashem rather than living beneath the expectations—real or imagined—of others.Through a story of a ravenously hungry guest at the Baal Shem Tov's Shabbos table, we learn to honor our hunger for Torah, closeness, healing, joy, and spiritual life without shame.Topics include:• The healing light of the Baal Shem Tov• Emunah as a response to anxiety and uncertainty• Accepting ourselves with holy confidence• Each soul's unique spiritual path and offering• “For me the world was created”• Living beyond comparison and the imagined judgment of others• Holy confidence versus arrogance• False humility as a form of concealment• Authenticity and vulnerability before Hashem• Honoring our hunger for Torah and closeness• The Baal Shem Tov's story of the hungry Shabbos guest• Choosing life, joy, and spiritual well-beingExplore more teachings and resources:https://joeyrosenfeld.comSupport the preservation and expansion of this Torah:https://joeyrosenfeld.com/support

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