Spiritual Tools For An Outrageous World

What's the difference between a Rabbi and a Rebbe? A Rabbi teaches you something you don't know. A Rebbe puts you in touch with the deepest part of yourself. I learned this teaching from Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. In this week's talk, we lay out a series of teachings not so much to inform, but to show us how we can create an atmosphere in our lives and in our homes that will put us in touch with the deepest parts of ourselves and each other. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Imagine wearing a raincoat in the shower. You wonder why you're not getting wet -- and you're not even aware that you're wearing a raincoat. There are certain blockages that are standing in our way with our relationship with God, and our lives in this world. In this week's talk, we explore how to battle against the negative forces that try to undermine us in our quest for happiness and success. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Gratitude is one of the biggest keys to happiness! But like everything else in life, gratitude is an art form that needs to be nourished and learned. In this week's talk, we discuss, how to REMAIN grateful for the gifts that we ALREADY have. Because most of life dwells right there. Enjoy! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Receiving the Torah and Living the Torah are two different things. In this week's talk, we teach how to LIVE it!! All the information in the world will only get you so far if you don't know how to apply it. Learn how not just to sing the song, but how to become the song itself! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Everything is infinite. Every moment is a miracle. In this talk, we track the light of heaven from highest place to its coming down on Mt. Sinai with the giving of the Torah. And we discuss the greatness of pop art and how it gives us a greater appreciation of the ordinary. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How was the Garden of Eden created? Or even deeper, what was the Garden of Eden created out of? Drawing on the Torah of the Magid of Mezrich we learn the awesome connection between the sweet smells of accepting the Torah at Mount Sinai and the creation of the world. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What is the minimum amount of suffering a person can experience that can be still be called suffering? And what is the point of suffering anyway? And why are there two sections of curses in the Torah?? In this special midweek podcast, we learn some wonderful things!! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Is there a way to access perfection and bring it in to the world right now? The Torah says, yes! It's called Shabbos, Shabbat, Sabbath, and in this week's talk we talk about how we can all channel the soul of creation! Good Shabbos! Good Shabbos! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The quaretine isn't over, and yet in certain circles, the nostalgia for it has already begun. This makes sense since for many of us this has been a time of reflection and personal growth. Is all that about to end, too? How do we preserve the best parts of this? In this week's talk, we explore strategies for how to deal with it all. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Love is so powerful!! How do we use it in the highest, deepest, most beautiful way? In this week's talk, we discuss the concept of lifting up fallen love, and how to transform desire into closeness. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Are you your body, or your soul? And once you figure that out, how do you maintain ownership of your true self? In this week's talk, we give practical advice on how to sort through these essential questions of self so that we can stay the true us. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If matzah is so great, why don't we eat it all year? And if bread is so bad why do we eat it at all? In this week's talk we talk about the creation of human beings and how imagination is the key to our realization -- and how delusion is just one step away. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Now we are free. But free to do what? In this week's talk, we discuss the Love / Freedom connection. How true freedom requires a plan, and the realization of that plan needs the exalted dimension of Oneness. If that doesn't make complete sense yet -- it will if you take a listen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

From Zombies in Modern Movies to What to think about while eating Matzah, this week's talk has lots of ideas to think about! Especially, a deep discussion about what Freedom is and isn't and how we can get the most out of freedom's end goal: being in a loving relationship with One who loves us the most. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The epic journey of mankind from creation to the resuscitation of the dead! This week's talk gives you the big story of where we began to where we are going! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

One of the most difficult things to understand in the Torah is the order of animal sacrifices. In this week's talk (a short one only 17 minutes) I look into the psychology of animal sacrifice and how giving up something can actually bring us closer together. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Practical Advice for Living with the Quarantine. In this week's talk, we talk about breaking habits, the truth about nature, and arrive at a working definition of what we really mean by the word "faith". Plus questions and answers from around the world. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A spiritual understanding of the virus. And a working definition of love. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Stop playing Double or Nothing with your self-worth! How many of us wager our self-esteem every day over worthless matters? In this week's talk, we go deep and take an objective look at what this world really looks like and our essential role in it. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Here is an interview I did with the Podcast "G-d and Other Delicacies" with host Nicholas D'Agosto See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.