EPISODE · Dec 3, 2025 · 45 MIN
Vayishlach | The Essential State of Loneliness
from Even Shlomo - Rav Shlomo Carlebach zt"l on the Weekly Parsha · host Rav Shlomo Katz
In this week’s Even Shlomo on the Parsha, Rav Shlomo Katz and the chevre of Shirat David walk with Yaakov into the darkest, most misunderstood place in the human heart – loneliness. “ויבשר יעקב לבדו" – Yaakov was left alone.” Reb Shlomo reads this night of wrestling not as a tragedy, but as the moment Yaakov’s deepest self is revealed on the night he receives the name Yisrael and gives every Jew the strength to stand alone until the dawn of Geulah.Rav Shlomo Katz unpacks:The difference between crushing loneliness and a holy state of being levadoHow the revelation of your soul is really “finding out what Hashem had in mind when He created you”Why you were never meant to be an “identical bagel” in shul – and how to discover the one shlichus no one else can doThe Tzanzer Rebbe’s radical teaching that the thing you most need in life cannot be written black-on-white in the Torah, so that you’ll have to seek it directly from HashemWhy real hisbodedus is not a mental-health “add-on,” but the place where Vayivaser Yaakov Levado becomes real in our own livesFor anyone who feels out of place, unseen, or “too different,” this shiur is a lifeline: a Torah that says your essential loneliness isn’t a mistake – it may be the only place your true name can be revealed.----------For more Shuirim and Music from Rav Shlomo Katz, visit: https://ravshlomokatz.comJoin Rav Shlomo Katz's WhatsApp Community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/KHKOhhPaeHx5Kb74WL9L9a?mode=ems_copy_t
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In this week’s Even Shlomo on the Parsha, Rav Shlomo Katz and the chevre of Shirat David walk with Yaakov into the darkest, most misunderstood place in the human heart – loneliness. “ויבשר יעקב לבדו" – Yaakov was left alone.” Reb Shlomo reads this night of wrestling not as a tragedy, but as the moment Yaakov’s deepest self is revealed on the night he receives the name Yisrael and gives every Jew the strength to stand alone until the dawn of Geulah.Rav Shlomo Katz unpacks:The difference between crushing loneliness and a holy state of being levadoHow the revelation of your soul is really “finding out what Hashem had in mind when He created you”Why you were never meant to be an “identical bagel” in shul – and how to discover the one shlichus no one else can doThe Tzanzer Rebbe’s radical teaching that the thing you most need in life cannot be written black-on-white in the Torah, so that you’ll have to seek it directly from HashemWhy real hisbodedus is not a mental-health “add-on,” but the place where Vayivaser Yaakov Levado becomes real in our own livesFor anyone who feels out of place, unseen, or “too different,” this shiur is a lifeline: a Torah that says your essential loneliness isn’t a mistake – it may be the only place your true name can be revealed.----------For more Shuirim and Music from Rav Shlomo Katz, visit: https://ravshlomokatz.comJoin Rav Shlomo Katz's WhatsApp Community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/KHKOhhPaeHx5Kb74WL9L9a?mode=ems_copy_t
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