Best Ex Nihilo Podcast Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 668 6 Tishrei (Regular Year) - How Does Creation Ex Nihilo Happen? 18:14

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the spiritual mechanisms behind ex nihilo creation. Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 20. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: [email protected] Support the show…

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Episode 666 4 Tishrei (Regular Year) G-d is Not Spirituality 18:19

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Send us a text In today's episode we begin a discuss as to how it is possible that G-d is One with both His Lights and Vessels. Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 20. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: [email protected] Support the show…

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Episode 667 5 Tishrei (Regular Year) What Makes Us So Special? 19:10

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the why only Ex Nihilo (in contrast to Cause and Effect creation) is called Creation (i.e Briya). Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 20. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: [email protected] Support the show…

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Episode 665 3 Tishrei (Regular Year) Linguistics 23:43

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the meaning of the Thought Speech and Action of Letters. Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 19. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: [email protected] Support the show…

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Episode 664 2 Tishrei (Regular Year) Layers of Self 29:00

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the external and internal aspects of G-d's attribute of Chochma and why Moshe Rabeinu was a good conduit for transmitting the Torah. Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 19. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: it…

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Episode 663 1 Tishrei (Regular Year) What the Show Love Is Blind Gets Right 37:20

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the difference between "seeing" and "hearing" spiritually speaking and how this relates to the prophets vs. the Kabbalists. Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 19. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@…

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Episode 662 - 29 Elul (Regular Year) - Were the Kabbalists Greater Than Moses? 22:12

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Send us a text In today's episode we bring up the question as to how it is that the Arizal was able to write about inner levels of sephiros and worlds which were above Moshe Rabeinu's ability to understand or experience, if Moshe was the greatest prophet that ever lived. Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 19. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: …

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Episode 661 - 28 Elul (Regular Year) - Unquenchable Thirst 28:46

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the second type of Love of G-d which is innate, albeit latent, within all Jews. Iggeres HaKodesh, end of Epistle 18. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: [email protected] Support the show…

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Episode 660 - 27 Elul (Regular Year) - You Can't Force Love 22:01

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Episode 659 - 26 Elul (Regular Year) - When Will the Righteous Finally Rest? 13:27

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how the Righteous will only truly be able to rest and experience G-d's Infinite Light in the time of the Resurrection. Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 17. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: [email protected]…

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Episode 658- 25 Elul (Regular Year) - When They Embody the Mystery They Had Strived to Comprehend 20:56

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how Tzaddikim will experience a greater revelation of G-dliness in the Future Era in the time of the Resurrection vs the revelation they experience in Gan Eden. Iggeres HaKodesh, end of Epistle 17. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any o…

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Episode 657 - 24 Elul (Regular Year) - The Best Financial Investment 22:12

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how giving charity reaps "fruit" in this world and "principal" for the world to come and what this means. Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 17. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: [email protected] Suppo…

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Episode 656 - 23 Elul (Regular Year) - How Can You Give if You Don't Have? 17:22

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss different reasons why a person should still give charity even if they are just as impoverished as the one they are giving to. Iggeres HaKodesh, end of Epistle 16. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@g…

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Episode 655 - 22 Elul (Regular Year) - Do You Still Have to Give Charity if You Are Poor? 15:53

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss why even a poor person is not exempt from giving charity. Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 16. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: [email protected] Support the show…

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Episode 654 - 21 Elul (Regular Year) - Where Do Emotions Come From? 25:02

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how the emotions of the G-dly soul stem from the intellectual attributes of the G-dly soul. Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 15. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: [email protected] Support the show…

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Episode 652 - 19 Elul (Regular Year) - Topography of Emotions 50:25

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Send us a text In today's episode, we discuss the first six emotive attributes as they manifest within a person and how these emotive attributes are external manifestations of two internal emotive attributes, all of which are sourced in and correlate in quality with the three intellectual attributes. Iggeres HaKodesh, middle of Epistle 15. Music by…

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Episode 653 - 20 Elul (Regular Year) - A Window Into Your Higher Self 30:31

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Send us a text In this episode we discuss how the emotive and intellectual attributes previously discussed are merely metaphors for the attributes of the G-dly Soul. Iggeres HaKodesh, end of Epistle 15. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.…

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Episode 651 - 18 Elul (Regular Year) - Dust and Ashes 25:43

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how Avraham's attribute of Chessed in relation to the Supernal Attribute of Chessed can be likened to the relationship between the ashes of a burnt piece of wood to the wood or tree itself. Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 15. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To…

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Episode 650 - 17 Elul (Regular Year) - Study Man; Know G-d 14:52

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Send us a text In today's episode we begin a discussion in which we come to understand how we can come to understand G-d (somewhat) through studying the spiritual make up of Man. Iggeres HaKodesh, beginning of Epistle 15. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email…

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Episode 649 - 16 Elul (Regular Year) - When G-d Withdraws From the World 16:18

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss what is meant by the teaching that the eyes of G-d are always on the Land of Israel. Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 14. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: [email protected] Support the show…

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Episode 648 - 15 Elul (Regular Year) - Why Is It So Much Easier to Start Projects Than to Finish Them? 18:57

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Send us a text In today's episode we begin discussing a letter the Alter Rebbe wrote to his Chassidim, asking him to be just as passionate about giving to a fund that was established to raise money for the land of Israel as they were when the fund was first established. Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 14. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Y…

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Episode 647 - 14 Elul (Regular Year) - Everyone is Kind 17:16

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how there is a great Chessed which is latent within all Jews (Rav Chessed) and how G-d should thus act towards us in a way of Rav Chessed as well. Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 13. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries…

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Episode 645 - 12 Elul (Regular Year) - Personality Types 18:11

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how some Jewish souls are rooted in Chessed and some are rooted in Gevurah. Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 13. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: [email protected] Support the show…

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Episode 646 - 13 Elul (Regular Year) - People Are Complex 14:39

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how all Jews embody both Chessed and Gevurah. It's just a question of what is overt vs what is latent. Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 13. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: [email protected] Support the…

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Episode 644 - 11 Elul (Regular Year) - Should You Go to Landmark? 18:12

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how the "Service/Work" of Tzedaka produces a stronger effect than the "Act" of Tzedaka. Iggeres HaKodesh, end of Epistle 12. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: [email protected] Support the show…

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Episode 643 - 10 Elul (Regular Year) - What Is Work? 17:04

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Send us a text In today's episode we begin to explore the difference between the Act of Tzedaka vs. the Work or Service of Tzedaka. Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 12. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: [email protected] Support the show…

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Episode 642 - 9 Elul (Regular Year) - Make Peace 19:08

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how we can stimulate the affection of Peace on High and Below through engaging in the Act of Tzedaka as well as how we can get a taste of the revelation of G-dliness that will occur in the Future, by connecting with G-d during certain auspicious times such as prayer or giving Tzedaka. Iggeres HaKodesh, M…

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Episode 641 - 8 Elul (Regular Year) - Beauty is the Harmony of Opposites 19:43

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Send us a text Today's episode is dedicated in loving memory to my maternal grandfather Avraham Yitzchok ben Binyamin HaKohen Z"L (the entire It is Taught podcast is dedicated to him as well). In today's episode we introduce the question of what the difference is between the Act of Tzedaka vs the Service of Tzedaka, based on a verse from Yeshayahu …

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Episode 640 - 7 Elul (Regular Year) - How to Focus Your Thoughts on What Is Real 24:04

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how not seeing everything as being good is a form of heresy and how training ourselves to see everything as good makes it revealed as such. Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 11. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email…

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Episode 639 - 6 Elul (Regular Year) - Shift Your Perspective 23:37

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how everything we experience in our lives is really good and coming from G-d's Chessed, even if we don't perceive it as such. Our purpose is to shift our perspective and try to recognize the hidden goodness in all things. Iggeres HaKodesh, Epistle 11. FYI this is the gif I reference i the beginning of th…

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Episode 638 - 5 Elul (Regular Year) - Invoke the Limitless 15:26

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how through giving Tzedaka in an abundant and unmeasured way, we invoke the unlimited Chessed of G-d from a place higher than the worlds (i.e Rav Chessed). Iggeres HaKodesh, end of Epistle 10. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other …

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Episode 637 - 4 Elul (Regular Year) - Break All Boundaries 20:09

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss why we should not stick to the limitations given for giving tzedakah. Iggeres HaKodesh, middle of Epistle 10. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: [email protected] Support the show…

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Episode 636- 3 Elul (Regular Year) - When to Extend Your Boundaries 18:27

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how while all mitzvos, including the mitzva of Tzedaka has specific limitations and measurements to it, if a person veers even slightly from the Torah path, they should give over and above the set limitation given for Tzedaka in order to rectify the diminishment in light flow their actions caused, and th…

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Episode 635 - 2 Elul (Regular Year) - Why Everything in Our Universe Has Limits 12:33

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how and why all of the Torah commandments have specific measurements to them. Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 10. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: [email protected] Support the show…

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Episode 634 - 1 Elul (Regular Year) - Boundaries 17:38

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how the positive commandments are rooted in Hashem's Chessed, but as vested within Gevurah, as is seen by virtue of their measurements and limitations. Iggeres HaKodesh, Begnning of Epistle 10. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other…

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Episode 633 - 30 Av (Regular Year) - Why Do Societal Norms Change Over Time? 18:03

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how the main focus of our generation, which is the generation of the "footsteps of Moshiach", is to give Tzedaka. This is in contrast to previous generations whose emphasis was more on Torah study. Iggeres HaKodesh, end of Epistle 9. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagra…

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Episode 632 - 29 Av (Regular Year) - Why Are You Here? 15:06

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Send us a text In today's episode the Alter Rebbe reminds us of our true purpose on Earth, which is to emulate G-d by giving Tzedaka and doing acts of Chessed for His Sake. Iggeres HaKodesh beginning of Epistle 9. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itista…

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Episode 631 - 28 Av (Regular Year) - Spiritual Gardening 18:10

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how giving Tzedaka is likened to gardening and the spiritual response that it elicits. Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 8. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: [email protected] Support the show…

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Episode 630 - 27 Av (Regular Year) - The Miracle of Life 15:27

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the miraculous nature of plant growth and how the power that makes a plant grow is vested in the earth, not in the seed. Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 8. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmai…

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Episode 629 - 26 Av (Regular Year) - Can Our Charity Really Do That Much? 8:37

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the disproportionate response that our giving of Tzedaka elicits on High. Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Iggeres 8. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: [email protected] Support the show…

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Episode 628 - 25 Av (Regular Year) - Why Give Charity Before You Pray? 11:23

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss a deeper reasoning behind why we have the habit of giving Tzedka before praying. Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 8. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: [email protected] Support the show…

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Episode 627 - 24 Av (Regular Year) - Your Life Has No Meaning 14:27

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how every Jew has a unique purpose to their life, involving having a special connection to certain mitzvos. This purpose is beyond rhyme or reason, originating in G-d's Thought. Iggeres HaKodesh, end of Epistle 7. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an epis…

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Episode 626 - 23 Av (Regular Year) - Was the Biblical Adam Jewish? 15:01

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how Yaakov our forefather took over from the original Adam as being the collective soul of all Jews. Iggeres HaKodesh, middle of Epistle 7. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: [email protected] Support the sh…

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Episode 625 - 22 Av (Regular Year) - Anthropocentrism 16:48

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how G-d's Radiance is divided into 613 general parts which are further subdivided infinitely. We also discuss how these rays correspond to the 613 mitzvos as well as the 613 parts of a person's soul. Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 7. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Ins…

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Episode 624 - 21 Av (Regular Year) - How Can You Divide That Which Is Indivisible? 14:49

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Send us a text In today's episode we begin a discussion regarding the understanding of references made to our "portion" and "lot" within G-d, when we know that G-d is Indivisible. Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 7. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email…

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Episode 623 - 20 Av (Regular Year) - Live Your Truth 19:54

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how giving Tzedaka can connect a person to the True Truth. Iggeres HaKodesh, end of Epistle 6. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: [email protected] Support the show…

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Episode 622 - 19 Av (Regular Year) - So You've Been Publicly Shamed 21:51

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Send us a text In today's episode we begin a discussion as to why giving Tzedaka rewards a person with Truth (Emes). We discuss our forefather Yaakov and how he is associated with Compassion and how we can arouse Compassion on High for having compassion on our G-dly souls which are exiled in our bodies and this physical world. Iggeres HaKodesh Begi…

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Episode 621 - 18 Av (Regular Year) - What's the Largest Bone in the Human Body? 17:49

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss two categories of Jew 1) Those who's primary focus is in Torah study and 2)Those who's primary focus is in acts of Chessed and Tzedaka. Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 5. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/It-Is-Taught- Twitter: https://twitter.com/itistaught Instagram…

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Episode 620 - 17 Av (Regular Year) - Why Is It So Difficult for Intellectuals to Express Themselves? 26:06

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the deeper meaning behind the phrase "behibaram" which is used in Chumash in describing Creation and how In today's episode we discuss how ever since the creation of Man, it is required of us to elicit G-d's Chessed to give power for the descent of His Chochma into the Malchus (Speech) which sustains our…

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Episode 619 - 16 Av (Regular Year) - G-d's Exhale 19:24

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Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how our world receives G-d's letters of speech in an external manner, which is referred to as the "body" or "matter" of the letters, AKA G-d's breath, as we could not handle the more inward "form" in a manifest way. Iggeres HaKodesh, middle of Epistle 5. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebo…