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Nach Daily
by Rabbi Shaya Sussman, LCSW
NachDaily is a project of Yeshiva Ateres Shimon. A perek of day of Navi in 5 minutes or less. covering the entire Neviem Rishonim. Yeshoshua, Shoftim, Shmuel I, Shmuel II, Malchim I, Melachim II, Yeshaya, Yechezkel, Yirmiya, Hoshea, Yoel, Amos, ovadya, Yona, Micha, Nachum, Chabakuk, Tsfanya, Chaggai, Zechariah, Melachi.Thank God, we finished Navi and now we're learning Tehilim. The Shiurim are interlined with actual pesukim, classic meforshim, Drash and Chassidus to deliver practical lessons relevant to our everyday lives.Note: NachDaily is just one among the many "Daily E-mail" programs created by Yeshiva Ateres Shimon. Other programs are: Emunah Daily, Think Hashem Daily, MIshna Daily, Praying with Fire Daily, Kitzur Daily and more...By: Rabbi Shaya Sussman, LCSW
Episodes
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Rav Kook (40) The Air of Israel Vs. the Air of Exile
Why does Judaism feel so different in Israel? In this week’s class on Ma’amar HaDor, we look at the radical shift Rav Kook and the Vilna Gaon demand of our generation. We often think of Judaism as a set of ideas we carry with us, but Rav Kook teaches that it is actually an environment we breathe....
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Rav Kook (39) The Suffocated Soul: Why "Small" Religion Fails a "Big" Generation | Meimor Hador
Are you practicing a religion that feels like a collection of parts, or a unified whole? In this session, we dive deep into Rav Kook’s "Meimor HaDor" to address the "spiritual claustrophobia" of the modern age. When we encounter a Judaism that is reduced to technicalities without a soul, our…
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Rav Kook (38) Hanging Out With Hashem : Why Mitzos Feel like a Burden
Are you serving Hashem because you have to, or because you want to? In today’s class, we explore the profound transition from a modality of "conquering" and "forcing" ourselves to do Mitzvos, to a state of inner alignment. Just like in a healthy marriage, where we spend time with our spouse not…
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Rav Kook (37) Why everything is falling apart
In this week’s shiur on Rav Kook’s seminal work, Ma’amar HaDor, we dive into one of the most challenging yet comforting concepts in Jewish thought: Yerida Letzorech Aliyah (The Descent for the Sake of Ascent). Summary of Today’s Class: Rav Kook explains that before a higher, holier reality can be...
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Rav Kook (36) Beyond Behavior Teaching to the Depths | Memor HaDor
In today’s class we continued Rav Kook’s Meimor HaDor and explored how Rav Kook looked beneath the surface of his generation and saw not simply behavior, but potential. Rav Kook teaches that every generation carries the spiritual DNA of its historical hour. Because we were born close to Geulah…
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Rav kook (35) The Collective consciousness
In today’s shiur, we explored Rav Kook’s profound process of Aliyat HaDorot — the elevation of the generations — and the rise of collective consciousness. Rav Kook explains that throughout most of history, spiritual greatness was concentrated in a small number of towering individuals: great...
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Rav Kook (34) Have Empathy. See Their Pain
In this shiur, we continued Rav Kook’s Meimor HaDor and explored his deeply compassionate diagnosis of our generation. Rav Kook teaches that this generation is not sinful or rebellious, but rather emotionally flooded — drowning in spiritual pain. The confusion, anger, distancing, and breakdown we...
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Rav Kook (33)The Subconscious Sickness | Meimor HaDor - My Generation
In this shiur, The Subconscious Sickness, we explored Rav Kook’s actual diagnosis of the core problem of our generation. A good diagnosis is half the cure — and Rav Kook offers one of the most penetrating psychological–spiritual readings of modern Jewish life. He explains that a deep subconscious...
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Rav Kook (32): Show Them the Light | Meimor HaDor - My Generation
In this fifth class on Meimor HaDor, we learned Rav Kook’s radical response to the spiritual vacuum of the modern generation. Instead of tightening rules or relying on behavioral expectations, Rav Kook tells us to show them the light — to reveal the deepest, brightest parts of Torah so the...
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Rav Kook (31): A Strange Generation | Meimor HaDor – My Generation
In this fourth shiur on Meimor HaDor, we explored Rav Kook’s profound diagnosis of a generation in transition — a generation standing in a liminal space, suspended between worlds. Rav Kook describes his era, and ours, as strangely high yet deeply confused, overflowing with idealism while also...
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Rav Kook (30) Quieting Racing Thoughts | Meimor HaDor: My Generation
In this third class on Rav Kook’s Meimor HaDor, we continued exploring his breathtaking reading of our generation — a generation torn between greatness and confusion, light and darkness, trauma and renewal. We began with Rav Kook’s raw validation of the pain of modern Jewish history: the silence,...
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Rav Kook (29) : The Emotional Collapse | My Generation: Meimor HaDor
In this second shiur of the My Generation series, we continue exploring Rav Kook’s Meimor HaDor — his lament over the emotional collapse and inner defeat of the generation. Rav Kook describes a world where individuals, families, and communities are wrapped in emotional pain and existential angst,...
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Rav Kook (28) The Great Pain | My Generation: Meimor HaDor
In this first shiur of the *My Generation* series, we begin exploring Rav Kook’s *Meimor HaDor*, found in *Ikvei HaTzon*. We discuss the historical context in which Rav Kook was writing and how he saw light emerging from darkness — even in the spiritual confusion of his generation. Together we...
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For Those Struggling | Rav Kook on Teshuva and the Yamim Noraim
For Those Struggling | Rav Kook on Teshuva and the Yamim Noraim by Rabbi Shaya Sussman, LCSW
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Rav kook (27) A Health Soul | Orot HaTeshuvah
YouTube Description In this shiur on Orot HaTeshuva, Rav Kook teaches that the healthiest state of the soul is teshuva. Teshuva is not about becoming someone new—it’s about peeling back the extra, external layers and returning to who we already are at our core. We’ll explore: How teshuva is the...
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Rav Kook (26) Finding God by Finding Yourself | Orot HaTeshuva
In this shiur, we explore Rav Kook’s profound teaching that true teshuva begins with self-knowledge. 🌱 We need to have a sense of self in order to draw close to Hashem. When we bypass our personalities and souls, we fall into false teshuva. Remember: at our core, we are truly a neshama. Every...
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Rav Kook (25) Is Nationalism Treif?
What does Rav Kook really think about nationalism? Is secular Zionism just an empty vessel—or part of the Divine plan? In this shiur, we explore Rav Kook’s bold and nuanced vision: how nationalism without Hashem becomes distorted and dangerous, but religion without a national container becomes...
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The Land of Second Chances | Nach Daily book launch
At the Nach Daily book launch, Shaya Sussman shared a personal and powerful message about failure, redemption, and the deep relevance of Navi in our lives. From failing through school—and even getting a 32 in Navi—to launching a sefer that brings Navi to life, Shaya reminded us that second…
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Rav Kook (24) Nationalism: Light Without Vessels? Or vessels without Light?
Hashem created the world with light and vessels—a delicate balance between spiritual ideals and the structures that hold them. But what happens when that balance is lost? In this shiur, we explore how Hashem’s pristine light descends into the mire and muck of this world—enclothed in form, even in...
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Emunah in Chaos: Rebbe Nachman, Rav Kook, Inner War with a Mindfulness Practice for Realignment
What do we do when life feels upside down—when nothing is k’seder, and the world within and around us feels like it's unraveling? In this experiential shiur, we explore Rebbe Nachman’s teaching in Likutei Moharan Tinyana 82 on the battle between k’seder (order) and shelo k’seder (disorder), and…
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Daniel’s Vision: The Shattering of the Statue, War, Iran and the Light of Redemption
In this shiur, we explore Daniel Chapter 2—the vision of the great statue representing the empires of history, shattered by a humble stone—and ask: What does this prophecy teach us about today’s war, the role of Am Yisrael, and the unfolding of redemption in our time? Drawing on Rav Kook’s Orot...
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Exile & Return: the Spiritual Psychology of Eretz Yisrael
From the series: The Road Less Traveled – A Healing Journey Toward Eretz Yisrael and Ourselves In the wake of October 7th, something ancient stirred in the collective soul of Am Yisrael—fear, grief, longing, awakening. Galut and Geulah are no longer abstract ideas. They are personal. They are...
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Rav Kook (23) Nationalism: Body & Soul - The Gap Between Ideals and Reality
What happens when our highest spiritual ideals descend into the messiness of real life? In this shiur, we explore Rav Kook’s profound teaching on the tension between the soul of nationalism—its pure, redemptive vision—and the body that carries it: flawed systems, politics, and human limitation....
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Rav Kook (22) War of Worldviews: Chinuch without manipulation - Revealing the Torah in Creation
In this week’s Rav Kook shiur, we journeyed into a radically trusting approach to chinuch—one that sees the child not as a problem to be fixed, but as a soul already whole. Drawing from Zeronim, Orot HaKodesh (Chochmas HaKodesh II), and the War of Worldviews, we explored how manipulative...
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Rav Kook (21) War of Worldviews: Sparks From the Nations - Chinuch Without Fear
In this inspiring shiur, we explore Rav Kook’s fearless vision of chinuch—an education that uplifts, expands, and trusts the soul of every Jewish child. Rather than shrinking from the world in fear, Rav Kook teaches that we must raise broad souls who can face complexity with emunah, curiosity…
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Rav Kook (20) The War of Worldviews: An Old-New Paradigm of Judaism
In this shiur, we journey into Rav Kook’s powerful critique of a common religious impulse — the attempt to package Judaism into neat, rigid systems. Rav Kook challenges us to stop reducing Torah into something small and manageable, and instead open ourselves to the vast, living truth it holds. We...
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Rav Kook (19) The War of Worldviews: The Limits of Defensive Judaism
In this class, we explore Milchemet HaDe’ot v’HaEmunot—the war of worldviews and faith—through the lens of Rav Kook’s bold critique. Rav Kook warns against reducing Yiddishkeit into narrow definitions or neat ideological boxes. He challenges leaders and educators who rely on negativity—tearing…
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Rav Kook (18): An Unending Light - From Mitzrayim to the Final Geula
In this shiur, we explore Rav Kook’s profound vision of Geulah—not as a moment in history, but as an unending light that began in Mitzrayim and continues to illuminate the path toward the final redemption. We’ll dive into how the story of Yetziat Mitzrayim is not just about personal or national...
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Rav Kook (17) Healing & Sufferin: Deep Emunah for a Modern Soul
In this week's shiur, we explore the soul’s deep yearning for a faith that truly satisfies — a faith vast enough to hold the complexity of our modern world. Drawing from the teachings of Rav Kook, we discuss how Emunah isn’t about retreating from modernity, but about engaging with it from a place...
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Rav Kook (16) Healing & Suffering: The Need for Deep Emunah
Emunah isn’t just a concept—it’s a way of seeing reality from the highest place. In this shiur, we explore how darkness, pain, and even foreign ideologies are part of Hashem’s divine plan to reveal greater light. True emunah isn’t about blind faith, but about learning to perceive Hashem’s…
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Rav Kook (15) Healing & Suffering: Rav Kook’s Cherem & Transcending Trauma - A Purim story
What does Rav Kook’s *cherem* letter have to do with Purim? In this shiur, we explore how Rav Kook transformed personal attacks and opposition into spiritual elevation, embodying the deep Purim theme of revealing hidden light within darkness. Just as the tzaddik descends to elevate the sparks...
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Rav Kook (14) Healing & Suffering: Lost in Religion - How Religious Trauma Leads to Deeper Faith
What happens when religion becomes detached from its source? Instead of being a path to connection, it can become a source of shame, distortion, and emptiness—mere ritual without soul. But Rav Kook teaches us that even this process has a divine purpose. Hashem allows for kefirah (spiritual…
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Rav Kook (13) Healing & Suffering: When Religion Lacks a Soul
Too often, our understanding of God remains immature—shaped by childhood perceptions that no longer serve our spiritual growth. In this shiur on Rav Kook’s teachings, we explore how true spiritual alignment requires upgrading our vision of God, surrendering the ego, and allowing our soul’s…
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Rav Kook (12) Healing & Suffering_ Knowing We Don’t Know
In this shiur, we explore Rav Kook’s profound insights on healing, suffering, and the spiritual necessity of embracing the unknown. We discussed how the illusion of "knowing" God can lead us toward false certainty, which borders on idolatry (avoda zara) and heresy (kefira). True connection to...
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Rav Kook (11) Healing & Suffering: We all suffer
n today’s shiur, we began exploring Rav Kook's profound teachings on suffering. At the core of human experience lies an existential tension—the deep inner contradiction of needing to understand God while being confronted with the impossibility of fully grasping the Infinite. Rav Kook teaches that...
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Rav Kook (10) Tasting Redemption: Unlocking the Soul’s Deepest Light
Tasting Redemption: Unlocking the Soul's Deepest Light In this inspiring shiur, we explore the transformative power of redemption and how we can begin to taste the light of the future Geula (redemption) in our lives today. Drawing from deep Torah wisdom, we uncover how the light of redemption...
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Rav Kook (9) The Healing Light of Mitzvos & The Hostage Deal
In this shiur, we explore the incredible transformative power of mitzvot. Each mitzvah has the ability to bring Divine light into the world, illuminating and healing the individual, the nation, and the broader world. By engaging in mitzvot, we refine who we are and create a ripple effect of...
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Rav Kook (8) Souls of Chaos: No Soul Gets Left Behind
In today’s Rav Kook class, we explored the profound idea that every soul has a unique tikkun (purpose and rectification). We discussed the concept of Neshamos Olam HaTohu—souls born from chaos—and how the tzaddikim reveal that no soul is ever truly lost. These souls, often through their…
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Rav kook (7) Souls of Chaos: The Chutzpa of Redemption & Chanukah
In this shiur, we delve into the powerful and chaotic nature of souls from Olam Hatohu—the World of Chaos—and their unique role in our generation as we prepare for the era of Moshiach. These souls, marked by their extraordinary chutzpah, embody a necessary disruption to bring about the ultimate...
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Rav Kook (6) Souls of Chaos: Higher Than Souls of Order & the Light of Chanukah
In this episode, we explore the profound Kabbalistic teachings about the souls of the world of chaos (Tohu) and why they are considered higher than the souls of the world of order (Tikkun). Journey with us as we delve into the secrets of creation, the shattering of the vessels, and how these…
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Rav Kook (5) Healing and Prophecy – Connecting Details to Vision
In this shiur, we explore the profound healing that will take place at the end of days, as described by Rav Kook. Why do people turn away from wisdom and fail to see how mitzvot connect to Hashem? How is this a necessary step for the return of prophecy (Nevuah)? We delve into how current world...
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Rav Kook (4) The Rebirth of Prophecy | Chochom Adif Menavi
In this class, we explore begin "Chocham Adif Menavi" (the wisdom of a sage surpassing prophecy), the return of prophecy in our days, and the reversal of history as we approach redemption. We delve into the two distinct personality types—the creative visionary and the detail-oriented thinker—and...
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Rav Kook (3) Longing, Unity and Divine Light
This week’s class dives deeper into Rav Kook’s teachings on the paradox of the soul and its yearning for Hashem. Rav Kook offers the beginning of an answer: our longing itself becomes a vessel for Hashem’s light to illuminate within us. Through this divine light, we can move beyond seeing the…
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Rav Kook (2) The Pain and Pleasure of Longing for God
This class explores the ultimate paradox faced by those who yearn for Hashem: the soul longs to be filled with the air of God, yet Hashem is beyond our understanding. This tension can leave us fumbling through mitzvos with feelings of dissatisfaction and pain. Part of the answer lies in…
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Rav Kook: Seeds of Heeling (1) The Souls Yearning
In this class, we embark on the 'Zeronim' section of Rav Kook's Sefer Orot, a profound entryway into his spiritual vision. We explore how the soul's deepest yearning is to draw close to the Creator, delving into Rav Kook's unique insights on the soul's journey and its connection to the Divine.…
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The Place that I will show you | Yom Yerushalayim & Rus
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Chalban (17) Bigger Thinking
Having Grattitude for our holy land . https://nachdaily.com/
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Chalban (16) The Dawn of Redemption | Iyar & Yom Hatzmaut
we are on the precipice of redemption. https://nachdaily.com/
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Chalban (15) Pessach’s Inner Ohr
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Chalban (14) Don’t Neglect Physicality!
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NachDaily is a project of Yeshiva Ateres Shimon. A perek of day of Navi in 5 minutes or less. covering the entire Neviem Rishonim. Yeshoshua, Shoftim, Shmuel I, Shmuel II, Malchim I, Melachim II, Yeshaya, Yechezkel, Yirmiya, Hoshea, Yoel, Amos, ovadya, Yona, Micha, Nachum, Chabakuk, Tsfanya, Chaggai, Zechariah, Melachi.Thank God, we finished Navi and now we're learning Tehilim. The Shiurim are interlined with actual pesukim, classic meforshim, Drash and Chassidus to deliver practical lessons relevant to our everyday lives.Note: NachDaily is just one among the many "Daily E-mail" programs created by Yeshiva Ateres Shimon. Other programs are: Emunah Daily, Think Hashem Daily, MIshna Daily, Praying with Fire Daily, Kitzur Daily and more...By: Rabbi Shaya Sussman, LCSW
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