Life Lessons with Ariel Levy

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In this episode Ariel teaches us how cleaning our vessels by fixing our behaviours, our manners and our middot is they way for us to contain the light of the Torah. How deep can you go into the darkness, the well of heart break to find the edges of true faith and get intouch with the wisdom to heal.

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In this life we are naturally attracted to pleasures and someone who wants to make tshuva cannot just stop having those pleasures and start a new life with the intellectual knowing alone, your heart needs to be with you too as an ally, the head is not enough. The process of Tshuva is like getting to know and overcoming your addictions by reprogramming yourself to a new pleasure in life from the heart, pleasures that better serve you. Rosh Hashanah and yom Kippur are representing two ways of making a change and tshuva in life, in order to get to the happiness and clear our minds in Sukkot and Simchat Torah.... During this month we have a mission and an opportunity to to clean our thoughts, make new thoughts, step out of the old and into the new. Your currency in this life is your commitment, do it because you want to do it, not because you need to.

Rosh Hashanah commemorates the creation of the world and marks the beginning of the Days of Awe, a 10-day period of introspection and repentance that culminates in the Yom Kippur holiday, also known as the Day of Atonement

Each experience, good and bad makes you grow. Get along with life and surely, things will become easier for you. In this way the soul develops a unity of life. You can see the same thing as a blessing or a curse. Remember your life is your choice; what do you choose?

Woman have a deep natural attraction towards real holiness, to truly recognise holiness and follow real faith. We have a more emotional way of interacting and connecting with the world where men connect to the world through their attraction to the physical to the body. When a man and woman come together they balance the physical and spiritual.

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It is Elul, and the time is ripe to begin talking about repentance.

The most important foundation of achievement and evolution is the Will. Will is the tool that nurtures, feeds and leads us to the next level when the time is right for us. If something is being forced and it’s not a natural process, then the ‘will’ cannot express itself. We need to find our own connection to things, we cannot force ourselves to connect to something we are not ready for and nor can we force others to connect with something they are not ready for. Learn how to let go. Let yourself be who you are with joy and happiness, without any stress. Evolve organically.

Hashem is our healer and the truest healing takes place from the inside. In this episode Ariel talks about how illness and disease are often linked to a inner spiritual malady. That there is a difference between healing interventions from the outside world such as medicine & tonics and the inner healing process of reflecting on our lives and changing our minds, our beliefs as a cure for dis-ease. The first step to connect with this medicine is Emunah, having faith and this can be done through Jewish learning, learning in order to change

The Kedusha is a full-body experience and for a brief moment in time, we pretend we are angels. In this podcast episode Ariel goes on to describe that in that moment — challenging ourselves to reach toward a realm that is inaccessible, we are able to become part of something greater than ourselves.

Thoughts and faith build our reality. If as a nation we use our thoughts and faith, with humility as our vessel & religion as a tool, our generation can bring in peace & unconditional love to this earth. Today The journey towards holiness is a plural mission and to succeed in this mission we need to drop the strictness, let go of our own expectation & look at it like a love letter portraying the one long road towards the holy land...

When we take our seat in silence we sit between the world of pleasure and pain. We come to know that there is a voice in silence that can help us see both opposite experiences as one and the same. In this episode Ariel helps listeners ..........

The first nine days of Av are a period of mourning the destruction of the Jerusalem. But how do we mourn for something we cannot relate to? During chodesh Av it is a Mitzvah to lower our happiness, because by sinking back into our hearts, into a more vulnerable state of being we are better able to relate to the feeling of longing, of exile. As we step into the dark night of the soul and confront our sorrows by asking ourselves the big questions about life, we activate a deep spiritual process of developing. It is from here, this place of truth and vulnerability that we can begin to overcome desires, bad thoughts, bad habits and open up more authentically to the light of redemption.

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Drop your own story: We are conductors of spiritual energy, and that spirituality needs to be grounded onto the earth for us to truly have the deepest experience of Hashem. Part of our duty is to make the earth a home for Hashem. Through spiritual practice we make a home inside ourself for Hashem but we need to work the land too as a way to give back to the lans for its bounty and give thanks to Hashem but also so we can actually see, taste and touch the fruits of our spiritual and physical labour. Our body is made of the same elements that make up the earth and just like we need to take rest, and do so on Shabbos on the 7th day, so to does the land need rest, to just be on the 7th year. To see the light of Torah we need to drop our imaginary speculative story, take rest, let it be let it be so we can integrate the Torah in its purest way.