Podcasts about piaseczner rebbe

Rabbi Dunner draws powerful parallels between the teachings of the Piaseczner Rebbe during the Holocaust and how our response should look after the events of October 7th and since. Reflecting on Rav Shapira's incredible faith amidst the torment of Nazi persecution, Rabbi Dunner explores how even in the face of unspeakable horrors, the Jewish people's resilience remains unbroken. As Israel's enemies crumble, he reminds us that unwavering faith and determination will once again ensure that the Jewish people rise stronger than ever.

Dipping into the Torah that can carry us through. This piece from the Piaseczner Rebbe speaks of accessing a Self that exists beyond and within, a point of contact with the Divine in our root, that paves the way for a radical new framework of what it looks like to live with faith. Sources: Derech Hamelech, Parshat Nasso תר״ץ ***** Please support Rabbi Ami and this podcast by contributing here, designating “Awakening”: https://www.paypal.me/shefapodcastnetwork This podcast is supported in part from a grant from the Hadar Institute. Music is by Rabbi Daniel Kohn. To purchase, go to his cdbaby page. Audio is by David Kwan.

On Seder night we’re obligated to “see ourselves in every generation, as if we left Egypt.” This is not just a metaphor - it is offering a practical, experiential guideline to help us engage in a story from our past, and to participate in liberating ourselves in the present. Based on a close reading of the book of Exodus and a powerful teaching from the Piaseczner Rebbe, this class explores the liberating power of seeing and being seen, and the redemptive power of sharing a quality of vision with our children - those who we are raising, and those who are living within each one of us. Sources for further awakening

Episode 35 In the eyes of the Hasidic masters, we do not pray to God—we pray *with* God. Join Rav Ami as he guides us through teachings on tefillah from the Baal Shem Tov, Rav Pinchas of Koretz, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov and the Piaseczner Rebbe. Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kx2DBx2HvX-ty-G5I-LdaKhE73iSuRUm23ckXezlcFc/edit?usp=sharing ***** Please support Rabbi Ami and this podcast by contributing here, designating “Awakening”: https://www.paypal.me/shefapodcastnetwork This podcast is supported in part from a grant from the Hadar Institute. Music is by Rav Daniel Kohn. Help support him by purchasing his music. Audio is by David Kwan.

A meditation on joining together with God, in Presence, based on a teaching from the Piaseczner Rebbe. ***** Please support Rabbi Ami's teaching and this podcast, designating “Awakening” with your contribution: https://www.paypal.me/shefapodcastnetwork This podcast is supported in part from a grant from the Hadar Institute. Music is by Rabbi Daniel Kohn. To purchase, go to his cdbaby page. Audio is by David Kwan.

Episode 34 While much of the language and forms of prayer tend to be outward-directed, tefillah is an invitation to turn inward, to cultivate an internal space in which we can meet ourselves together with the Divine. This teaching from the Piaseczner Rebbe helps guide us into that space. Sources: Aish Kodesh, Ki Teitzeh ת״ש ***** Please support this podcast by contributing here, designating “Awakening”: https://www.paypal.me/shefapodcastnetwork This podcast is supported in part from a grant from the Hadar Institute. Music is by Rabbi Daniel Kohn. To purchase, go to his cdbaby page. Audio is by David Kwan.

Episode 33 Our primary sources point to prayer as a prophetic practice - the direct meeting between human beings and their Creator. The fixed prayers we have are based on this direct communication, and are an attempt and opportunity to reclaim that connection. We’ll explore these themes with the help of Leonard Cohen and the Piaseczner Rebbe. Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZLL5kyyw0VXYAUTwXFl7XZr0QZ8ybGR3bMWfNEi6y9U/edit?usp=sharing ***** This podcast is supported in part from a grant from the Hadar Institute. Music is by Rabbi Daniel Kohn. To purchase, go to his cdbaby page. Audio is by David Kwan.

Yiscah Smith and Rav Schwartz have a personal conversation about combining Chabad with the Piaseczner Rebbe.   Yiscah is a Jewish educator, spiritual activist, public speaker, and published author of “Forty Years in the Wilderness: My Journey to Authentic Living.” As a spiritual trailblazer, she exemplifies what it means to carve one’s own path: understanding one’s inner being and cultivating the integrity to remaining faithful to that understanding, unapologetically.   Yiscah teaches Jewish meditative practice and spiritual texts at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and in her home in Jerusalem.   Rav Schwartz is the Cofounder and Dean of the Society of Independent Spirituality, as well as the author of The Spiritual Revolution of Rav Kook. Rav Schwartz lives in Jerusalem and teaches in midrashot and yeshivot throughout the city.  ➖For more of Yiscah Smith's teachings ➖https://www.yiscahsmith.com/podcast-library ➖Follow us on Facebook ➖ Facebook.com/SpiritualRevolutionofRavKook Facebook.com/IndependentSpirituality

Episode 026 This is the first class Rabbi Ami ever gave in the Piaseczner Rebbe’s writings. It’s a broad introduction to the Rebbe’s life and writings, including a broad overview of the Rebbe’s various sefarim, historical background about the Rebbe’s life, stories about the Rebbe and his family, and a biographical sketch. The class ends with a framing of the Rebbe’s teachings through a powerful piece from Aish Kodesh. Sources: Aish Kodesh, parshat Yitro

Episode 025 Rosh Hashana is a day of awe - the kind of awe that comes from closeness, and a revealed encounter with our Creator. In this piece brought by Rabbi Ami, the Piaseczner Rebbe explores the nature of this revelation, and points us inward to discover the meeting point with God within our own prayers, through our own voice. Sources: Derech Hamelech, Rosh Hashana, ״קולי שמעת אל תעלם אזנך לרוחתי לשועתי״ ***** This podcast is supported in part from a grant from the Hadar Institute. Music is by Rabbi Daniel Kohn. To purchase, go to his cdbaby page. Audio is by David Kwan.

Episode 024 This is a teaching on exile, the exile of the soul, of the world and of the Divine itself. Oftentimes we think that teshuva - the return to God - is about overcoming our own shortcomings, and repenting for our sins and misdeeds. But the Piaseczner Rebbe reframes teshuva, not as a narrowly focused battle with ourselves, but as something much more fundamental: our deep need and desire to return home. Beneath all of our prayers, there is a single, persistent prayer, “God, why have You abandoned me?” If we can feel into the painful reality of this separation, it can become the corridor to lead us back together, to walk together with God, even in exile, and to come home. As always, Rabbi Ami masterfully navigates these questions and ideas, and more. (This recording was adapted from a preexisting video and therefore has lower sound quality than usual. However, we felt that the power of the content outweighs the audio levels, and hope that you feel similarly.) Sources: Derech Hamelech, Rosh Hashana first night, תרצ״א ***** This podcast is supported in part from a grant from the Hadar Institute. Music is by Rabbi Daniel Kohn. To purchase, go to his cdbaby page. Audio is by David Kwan.

Episode 023 In this continuation of the Piaseczner Rebbe’s teaching on prayer and Torah learning, we explore two kinds of pleasure on the spiritual path - the pleasure of grasping for something that you cannot grasp, the experiences that give us greater hunger for more; and the pleasure of integrating our experiences of the unknown, and coming to know something deeply in our bodies and minds. Join Rabbi Ami’s teaching as the Rebbe brings us closer to both of these modes of being, and offers us a map to build a bridge between them. ***** This podcast is supported in part from a grant from the Hadar Institute. Music is by Rabbi Daniel Kohn. To purchase, go to his cdbaby page. Audio is by David Kwan.

Episode 022 In this piece from Derech Hamelech, the Piaseczner Rebbe guides us on the search for wholeness in our spiritual path. In prayer, we can encounter our wholeness, can experience an undifferentiated light that surrounds us in its totality. Torah study is the search to come to know that light, to recover our wholeness and absorb it into the particular vessels of our body and mind. ***** This podcast is supported in part from a grant from the Hadar Institute. Music is by Rabbi Daniel Kohn. To purchase, go to his cdbaby page. Audio is by David Kwan.

Episode 020 This short piece from the Piaseczner Rebbe’s journal offers us a powerful invitation to experience prayer in intimate connection with the natural world, and all of Creation. After reading through this piece to unpack its meaning, Rabbi Ami ends with a brief meditation to apply the Rebbe’s words in practice. Sources: Tzav Vezeiruz 18 ***** Please take a moment to complete our listener survey so we can help improve our offerings, and get to know more about those learning with Rabbi Ami: https://forms.gle/KU9sd25CwiMeuUSA8 ***** This podcast is supported in part from a grant from the Hadar Institute. Music is by Rabbi Daniel Kohn. To purchase, go to his cdbaby page. Audio is by David Kwan.

Episode 019 A great grandmother who davened in a tallis and received Hasidim looking for brachot and guidance; another whom Hasidim flocked to to listen to her teachings; the Rebbe’s wife who wrote a commentary on a Hasidic sefer and edited the Rebbe’s own Kabbalistic writings. This episode explores the female figures in the Piaseczner’s family who stood out as spiritual teachers. Rabbi Ami shares the scant stories we have about these women, as well as the Rebbe’s poignant writings about his wife, to learn about these women and to uncover a deeper layer of understanding their  impact on the Rebbe's teachings about the rise of the Divine feminine. ***** Please take a moment to complete our listener survey so we can help improve our offerings, and get to know more about those learning with Rabbi Ami: https://forms.gle/KU9sd25CwiMeuUSA8  *****  This podcast is supported in part from a grant from the Hadar Institute.   Music is by Rabbi Daniel Kohn. To purchase, go to his cdbaby page.  Audio is by David Kwan.

Episode 016 “... and this world itself and all of its matters, is also a rung and quality of Divine light…” “... the spiritual work must not be to merely save the soul and neglect the body, but rather to sanctify the body as well until it too becomes soul; and the light of holiness that a person experiences, they must not hide from their body...” In this third part of this series, Rabbi Ami keeps us learning about the revolutionary and evolutionary teachings of the Baal Shem Tov and his students, through the lens of the Piaseczner Rebbe’s Mevo Ha-Shearim. Here the Piaseczner speaks deeply to the Divine reality that penetrates all of earthly reality, and all human life. The class ends with the Rebbe’s own account of turning away from the crowds of people he was teaching to speak to the Universe, to communicate with the natural world, that knows the Divine reality that courses through it in the full and intimate way that the Rebbe is trying to share. Sources: Mevo Ha-Shearim ch.3 and ch.1; Tzav Ve-Zeiruz 48

Episode 014 The Baal Shem Tov recorded a conversation with the Mashiach in which he asked, “when will you come?” The answer was not too promising, but it spurred the Baal Shem Tov to teach a new path of living, learning and devotion. This is part one of a multi-part series by Rabbi Ami that explores the path of the Baal Shem Tov as articulated by the Piaseczner Rebbe in his work, Mevo Ha-Shearim. The Rebbe puts forth an understanding of Hasidut as part of a continuous, unfolding spiritual evolution over the ages. These next few classes will unpack the Rebbe’s articulation of what makes Hasidut unique, what is its core mission, and can we walk this path of Divine connection in our earthly, embodied lives.

Episode 013 There is a Torah that is taught to everyone equally, a Torah that is written in books and can be accessed by all. But there is also a Torah that is a direct communication from the Divine to the individual heart, an intimate, secret teaching that every person must seek to hear and learn through their own experience. In this teaching from the Aish Kodesh, the Piaseczner Rebbe opens a path for avodah, for the practice of creating a space for this Torah to be received and cultivated. Sources: Aish Kodesh, Ki Teitzeh ת״ש

"In truth, all pleasure and enjoyment in the world, of any kind, are nothing other than God's own joy and pleasure." — The Piaseczner Rebbe In this teaching for Shavuot, the Piaseczner Rebbe invites us to join God in experiencing pleasure and joy. The Rebbe outlines the contours of pleasure - those experiences that distance us from God, and those that bring us closer - and offers a paradigm shift in which all pleasure, and all forms of joy are at their source a moment of uniting with God. The work is one of developing a greater awareness of this and allowing our contact with the Divine to begin to inform and build our lives around this awareness. Finally, the Rebbe ties this to the essence of receiving Torah and the moment of revelation at Sinai. Sources: Derech Hamelech, Shavuot Leil Aleph (תרפ״ה)

The path through Sefirat Ha’omer to Shavuot is a process of self-refinement, of coming into contact with the myriad parts of our personality that compose the sum total. But how do we orient ourselves toward this work? Is self-development about striving to reach at a new plateau? Are we reaching outward toward a higher goal? Sometimes the outward focus can actually work against us, it can make our goals unattainable, as we search for things that don’t pertain to who we really are. In this episode, Rabbi Ami explores the process of Sefirat Ha’omer through the particular lens of this week’s middah - yesod - and its connection to the quality of tzaddik. We learn a piece from the Piaseczner Rebbe’s journal that challenges our ideas of what it means to be a tzaddik, and offers an alternative to the all too common self-deprecating and alienating approach to spiritual work. Sources: Tzav Vezeiruz 24

Episode 009 Where have all the prophets gone? Where do we hear God’s voice in our day and age? In this piece from Derech Hamelech, the Piaseczner Rebbe probes these questions and offers a path of hearing the Divine voice through our learning and our listening. He also offers a novel approach on the role of a tzaddik and the process of being helped in our own spiritual path. Sources: Derech Hamelech, Parshat Shemot (תרפ״ט), Mevo Hashearim ch.1

Episode 008 Rabbi Ami continues his teaching of the Piaseczner Rebbe’s framing of mitzvot as a path towards unifying the body and soul. Here the Piaseczner goes deeper into the spiritual and Kabbalistic underpinnings behind this approach that touches on the core of who we are, what we are made of, and what it means to be alive.

Episode 007 Rabbi Ami begins with a meditation from the Piaseczner Rebbe’s journal on the limits of life in a body, and the potential for the soul to live on by transmitting its teachings to the next generation. We then enter a teaching on the relationship between body and soul, and the unique path of uniting the two that is offered through mitzvot. This is the first of two classes on this teaching from Derech Hamelech. Sources: Tzav Vezeiruz 1; Derech Hamelech, Parshat Toldot (תר״צ)

Episode 001 What does it mean to “know God?” Where does this knowledge stem from within the individual? This is a radical teaching from the Piaseczner Rebbe in which he lays out a path toward coming to know God as one knows one’s self. Sources: Derech Hamelech, Parshat Vayeitzeh (תר״צ)

In this podcast, through the teachings of the Piaseczner Rebbe, Rabbi Dr. James Jacobson-Maisels explores how the ways we act harmfully are rooted in our forgetting of who we are and the many distractions which cause us to lose our … Read the rest The post Ki Tisa: Getting Lost, Awareness and the Root of Sin first appeared on Elmad Online Learning. Continue reading Ki Tisa: Getting Lost, Awareness and the Root of Sin at Elmad Online Learning.