Hi! I invite you to join me as I explore the intricacies of our inner-world, our lives and our relationship with Hashem. The episodes on this podcast are about my passionate belief that the Torah speaks to us, personally, intimately and timely. Studying the wisdom of Torah and our rich legacy is a part of Torah and our rich legacy itself. As our world embraces the powerful possibilities that psychotherapy offers us, I humbly wish to add my own thoughts and ideas about what it means to be human, to be Jewish, to find our Souls and to live Hashem in our lives. The dignity of human life is such that it moves us to comb the Infinite beauty of Torah to find deep and timely wisdom that grows us, allows us to dream big for ourselves and heal the wounds of all that pains us. In the inimitable words of Rav Kook, "Raise yourself up to greater heights, because you have an internal strength. you have the wings of spirituality, wings as powerful as an eagle. Don't deny them; they will destroy you if you try. Search deeply for them and you will find them..."
Rav Kook, Shmona Kevatzim, Kovetz 1: 201כשם שההויה המוחשית היא טבועה על התנועה התדירית, כן ההויה הרעיונית טבועה היא על השמחה הבלתי פוסקת, שמח הוא העולם, שמחה היא ההויה הפנימית כולה. Just as the existence of sensory experience is, by its essence, rooted in continuous movement, so too the existence of ideas (all cognitive processes) is, by its essence, rooted upon a joy that never ceases. The world is joy. Joy is the interiority of all existence.
Hell is a stop on the road to Heaven. The journey to self-actualization goes through hell. If we take it here, it will land us in Heaven before we die. If we take it here then we transform hell itself into heaven. אם יש דין למטה אין דין למעלה The Zohar, Alter Rebbe, Rebbe Nachman & Rav Kook on lower and higher forms of Teshuva.
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