The Live Kabbalah Podcast- Daily Wisdom, Deep Conversations, Inner Transformation

As we enter the two days of Rosh Hashanah, the head and mind of the entire year, Rabbi Amichai Cohen opens the inner work of these days: how to stand in awe (yirah) while holding a deep, internal joy (gila).In this episode:- Why Rosh Hashanah is called the mind and brain of the year, and the elevated consciousness it asks of us- "Ivdu et Hashem b'yirah, v'gilu bir'adah" - serving God with awe, and rejoicing with trembling- The letters of Tishrei and the movement from below to above- Gila versus simcha: the inner joy of Rosh Hashanah and the external joy of Sukkot- Mima'amakim, calling God from the depths, and the Zohar's ten levels of depth- The gevurah of Yitzchak, omek and gevurah, and how strength itself is joined to joyShana Tova U'Metuka - wishing you a great, incredible new year, sweetness and joy in all aspects.

A short teaching from Rabbi Amichai Cohen for the 25th of Elul—the day associated with the beginning of Creation. As Rosh Hashanah approaches, pause to reconnect with the purpose, possibility, and Divine intention woven into the world and into your own life.

The Hebrew letter Peh means mouth, yet it also reveals the relationship between our face, our inner life, and the words we bring into the world. Rabbi Amichai explores Peh through Elul, Moshe’s calling, the King in the field, the shofar, and the blessing of the Kohanim. This class offers a grounded way to understand teshuvah as closing the distance between what is within us and what we show.

What prepares a people to carry Torah into ordinary life?As Moshe transfers leadership to Yehoshua, the Jewish people are leaving the miraculous life of the desert and entering the Land of Israel. They will need courageous leadership, the guidance of Torah, and the strength of community.In this short teaching on Parashat Vayelech, Rabbi Amichai explores the mitzvah of Hakhel: once every seven years, men, women, children, and the stranger gathered to hear the Torah read aloud. They came to listen, to learn, and to renew their awe of G-d together.Sources: Devarim 31:7-13; Rashi on Devarim 31:7, 31:9-12; Mishnah Sotah 7:8.Learn more at https://www.livekabbalah.com

Choose Life: What Are You Here to Give?The Torah tells us:“I have placed life and death before you, blessing and curse. Choose life, so that you and your descendants may live.”
Devarim 30:19Choosing life is more than wanting to live. It means choosing goodness, purpose, growth, and what we are here to give.In this short reflection on Nitzavim–Vayelech, I share a powerful teaching for preparing ourselves for Rosh Hashanah and the new year ahead

Rabbi Amichai continues the teaching of the letter Ayin through the two unities of the Shema.Higher unity reveals that nothing exists outside G-d. Lower unity asks us to live faithfully within the apparent separateness of creation, bringing oneness into the body, the animal soul, our choices, and the ordinary details of life.The class also explores garments of skin and light, Chai Elul, the Baal Shem Tov and Alter Rebbe, and the inner preparation for Rosh Hashanah.

The Hebrew letter Ayin means both eye and wellspring. Its numerical value is 70, the number of many facets returning to one source.Rabbi Amichai explores ayin tovah, the good eye, the difference between discernment and judgment, the 70 facets of Torah, and Yosef's ability to remain rooted in G-d while living visibly in the world.The teaching closes with a simple question: What am I looking at, but not truly seeing?Watch the full class:https://www.livekabbalah.com/products/2148405889/categories/2154108734/posts/2199773725Continue with the guided Ayin meditation:https://www.livekabbalah.com/products/kavana-academy-meditations/categories/820258/posts/2199774241

In this teaching from our weekly Tanya class, Miriam continues into Chapter 13 and the Benoni, the in-between person that each one of us can be. She looks at the two impulses within us as internal judges, one that speaks in fear and one that speaks in love, and the tender teaching that G-d Himself is the third judge who helps the good in us. All of this in the light of Elul, when the King is in the field and G-d comes out to meet us exactly where we are.Learn with us at livekabbalah.com.

The name of this week's portion is Re'eh, which means "See." From its very first word, the Torah is teaching us how to look. Life sets a blessing and a curse before us, and so much of our work is learning to see the blessing that is hidden inside the challenge.In this reflection we explore the nisyonot, the tests we each move through, and how they are not obstacles on the path but the very doorway of it. Every test is an invitation to see more deeply, to trust that Hashem is present even in the difficulty, and to find the miracle quietly waiting inside it.May we all be blessed to truly see, to meet our tests with faith, and to uncover the blessing and the miracles that surround us always.

Just six days after the breaking of Tisha B'Av, the calendar turns to its very opposite. Tu B'Av, the fifteenth of Av, is named by our sages as one of the most joyful days of the entire year.The moon that went dark at the start of the month now stands full again. The mourning of the Temple gives way to love, to reunion, and to the quiet promise that what was broken can be mended.Our sages describe how on this day the daughters of Jerusalem would go out to dance in the vineyards in borrowed white dresses, so that no one would be shamed for having less than another. The whole day is built on a love that lifts everyone equally, the healing of the very baseless hatred that brought the destruction.This is the secret of Tu B'Av. The same month that holds the deepest fall also holds the return of love. Redemption is not born only from the breaking. It is born from the love we choose afterward.May this Tu B'Av open your heart to love given and love received, and may it draw the final redemption near.

Mem is the mother letter, the first sound a child makes, and it carries us back to the waters we were formed in.In this Exploring Oneness class we delve into the letter Mem: water and maim as life force, the higher and lower waters, Mem as Binah and the patience of gestation, the open Mem and the closed final Mem, the mikvah and the four Yuds hidden within, and the sacred silence where something is quietly being born in us.One question runs underneath it all. Can I allow something to develop before I demand clarity?This is one class from our weekly walk through the Hebrew alphabet inside the Light Warrior Circle.If you feel called to go deeper: https://www.livekabbalah.com/products/the-light-warrior-path-courseExplore Live Kabbalah: https://www.livekabbalah.comWith blessings,Rabbi Amichai

As we enter Tisha B'Av, the day of the destruction of both Temples, this reflection is an invitation not to run from the pain but to sit with it, face to face, and to meet Hashem in the very place of the breaking.This year we have been cracked open, by war, by turmoil, by watching the old structures fall. Tisha B'Av asks us not to reach for the quick distractions, but to go inward and become present to the true strength underneath.The foundations of the Temple are still intact. On the deepest level there is no destruction, only a phase that cannot hold, as Hashem lifts us to a higher frequency. This is why Tisha B'Av is called a mo'ed, a holiday, and why our sages teach that Mashiach is born at the very point of the destruction. Mashiach is a tzemach, a sprout, growing slowly, then rising in the blink of an eye into a strong tree bearing fruit.May this Tisha B'Av reveal the greatest growth, and the coming of Mashiach.Amen

There is a sight deeper than the eyes. This teaching is about the power of vision, the ability to see with your soul the fullness you are truly seeking, even when everything around you looks broken.We explore a remarkable teaching of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, that each of us is being shown something we cannot yet see with our physical eyes, and that what we are being shown is real. Wherever there is destruction, the opposite pole is already present, rebuilding, wholeness, joy and peace.At the heart of this teaching is a question that is yours to answer. What are you truly yearning for? What is your temple? What is the fullness, the inner peace, the joy you are seeking? And can you bring it into a living, palpable vision in front of you?This is an invitation to rise above the brokenness and to see the wholeness that is already there, waiting for you to see it.Wishing you joy, light, wholeness and peace.

Rabbi Amichai Cohen, live class, July 12, 2026. This is the opening teaching portion of the Light Warrior Path Week 4 class.There is the true I, which is a portion of the Creator and whose nature is to give. And there is the fragmented I, the animal self, whose nature is to receive for itself. Before the sin, Adam and Eve lived in constant connection to the Source, with no ego blocking the flow. That is the Tree of Life. After the sin there is duality, and there is now something outside of me.Three Hebrew words share the same letters. Tinok, a baby, who must take, and who can live inside a grown person for a lifetime. Tikkun, the fixing, which is most of a life and which asks not whether giving is good but why I am giving. And nituk, disconnection, not from life but from the charade, from needing the result.And then the question that makes it practical. What am I actually bowing down to?To learn with Rabbi Amichai inside the full program, visit the Light Warrior Path Course at livekabbalah.com.#Kabbalah #TreeOfLife #Tikkun #JewishMysticism #Chassidut #InnerWork #LiveKabbalah #Meditation #SpiritualGrowth

Greetings and blessings for the new month of Av, which literally means father, and carries the energy of Leo, the lion. The Midrash says a lion came on the month of the lion and destroyed the lion, so that the Lion, G-d, can come back and build the lion. Nebuchadnezzar, the great lion, destroys the Beit HaMikdash, called Ariel, the crouching lion, so that Hashem, "Ariel sha'ag, mi lo yira," will rebuild it. Av is ferocious, raw father energy that can wound or warm. Beneath the calamity we are eternally beloved, "Banim atem," the children of G-d. The point of the mistake is not to stay in it, but to rise into the awareness of our Father's love. On the first of Av is the hilula of Aharon, a har, a mountain, carrying the aleph of humility and the nun that draws strength down to every person. Not to wallow in what was, but to be empowered, to trust, and to rekindle with the lion within. May we see the rebuilding of the Beit HaMikdash.

A short teaching for the Hillula of the Ramak, Rabbi Moshe Cordovero, one of the great masters of Tzfat. We look at his life, the Pardes Rimonim and the Tomer Devorah, his teaching that the secret of enlightenment lives in one word, Shema, and the meaning of his passing on the 23rd of Tammuz, during these Three Weeks.Read more: https://www.livekabbalah.com/blog/The-Ramak

The letter Kaf is the vessel that curves inward to make room. In this teaching from our Exploring Oneness and Meditation series, Rabbi Amichai Cohen follows the Kaf from Binah, the understanding that builds, down into the palm of the hand that receives in order to give. This is EOM 105 in the Mystery of the Hebrew Letters.Join the community: The Live Kabbalah CommunityWalk through the letters on the Light Warrior Path: The Light Warrior PathKabbalah, Hebrew Letters, Live Kabbalah, Light Warrior, Jewish Mysticism, Spirituality

Why did God create the world? In this episode, Miriam teaches three profound answers from Kabbalistic tradition, each one a different window into the mystery of existence.Drawing from the Alter Rebbe, the AriZal, and the Tanya, she explores:1. The nature of good is to do good. God's very essence is boundless goodness, and goodness must give. Creation is the ultimate act of generosity.2. To extract His potential. A king without a kingdom is not fully a king. God created the world so His names, attributes, and infinite qualities could be expressed and known.3. God desired a dwelling in the lower realms. The deepest reason of all: not for the higher worlds, but for this one. We are the purpose.This class is part of the Light Warrior Path, a 12-week journey into the wisdom of Kabbalah for those ready to live with intention, awareness, and soul.Learn more at livekabbalah.com

A portion of this week's Live Kabbalah class with Rabbi Amichai Cohen on the letter Yud — the smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and yet the single point from which every other letter begins. We explore the Yud as the place where the infinite first touches the finite, the scribe's first stroke and the white parchment beneath the black letters, the flash of Chochmah that arrives from nothingness, the pintele Yid within every soul, and the meditation of "Potei'ach et yadecha" — opening our hands to give and to receive.The full class — deeper teaching and a guided meditation — continues inside Live Kabbalah. Walk the letters with us on the Light Warrior Path: https://www.livekabbalah.com/products/the-light-warrior-path-course and explore more at https://www.livekabbalah.com

This is a portion of Miriam's weekly Own Your Light class. The full class continues inside Live Kabbalah.In this teaching we begin Tanya Chapter 10 and enter the idea of the tzaddik, the truly righteous individual. We explore how fear can become trust and reactivity can become passion, the difference between the incomplete and the complete tzaddik, and the reminder that each of us carries a point of the tzaddik within. Once we have tasted living in alignment, anything outside of it begins to feel foreign to us, and that tender sensitivity is a sign that the soul is rising.Go deeper on the Light Warrior Path: https://www.livekabbalah.com/products/the-light-warrior-path-courseExplore more at https://www.livekabbalah.com

This is a portion of our weekly Live Kabbalah class, continuing our journey through the Hebrew letters with the letter Tet (ט) — the gate of gestation, of trust, and of becoming.Tet is the letter of tov, of goodness, and it carries the hidden light (the ohr haganuz): the reminder that what is good is often quietly ripening, concealed, before it is ever revealed. We explore the shape and meaning of the letter, the hidden light woven into the soul of Moshe, and what it means to trust the slow, sacred work of becoming.This is only the opening teaching. The full class — with the deeper teaching and a guided meditation — continues inside Live Kabbalah.Walk the path of the Light Warrior: https://www.livekabbalah.com/products/the-light-warrior-path-courseExplore everything at Live Kabbalah: https://www.livekabbalah.comWith love, Rabbi Amichai#Kabbalah #HebrewLetters #LiveKabbalah #LightWarrior #JewishMysticism #Spirituality

This is a portion of Miriam's weekly Own Your Light class — the opening teaching from our continued study of Chapter 9 of the Tanya. The full class continues inside Live Kabbalah.In this teaching, Miriam explores the two forces within each of us — the divine soul and the animal soul — and the two honest ways the Tanya gives us to work with our shadow side: iscafia, a healthy kind of subduing, and is'hapcha, the deeper work of transformation. She opens up the difference between a fiery love that senses distance from G-d and the calmer, pleasurable love that knows we are always connected, and why being grounded and embodied is itself a way of serving G-d. The class fell on Gimmel Tammuz, the yahrzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and carries so much of his message.Watch the full class inside Live Kabbalah: https://www.livekabbalah.comBegin the Light Warrior Path: https://www.livekabbalah.com/products/the-light-warrior-path-course#Tanya #OwnYourLight #LiveKabbalah #Kabbalah #Healing #Spirituality

This teaching is a portion of our weekly Light Warrior Circle class at Live Kabbalah, part of the ongoing series on the Mystery of the Hebrew Letters.Here we open the eighth gate of the Hebrew alphabet, the letter Chet. Its name carries cheit, to miss the mark, and yet the very same letter begins chaim, life. We explore the polarity built into each of us, the shape of the Chet as both an opening to fall and a container that holds our life, and a question worth sitting with: where have I mistaken closure for protection?The full class continues into chametz and matzah, the number eight and what lives above nature, and a guided meditation.Walk the full path with us, The Light Warrior Path: https://www.livekabbalah.com/products/the-light-warrior-path-courseLearn more about Live Kabbalah: https://www.livekabbalah.com

A short Torah teaching for Parshat Beha’alotcha based on the Ba’al Shem Tov’s inner explanation of the trumpet blast called Teruah, תרועה.In the parsha, the trumpets are used to gather the people, guide their journeys, and awaken Divine remembrance. The Ba’al Shem Tov reveals that Teruah is not only an external sound. It is an inner call that breaks through distraction, gathers the scattered parts of the soul, and awakens the heart to return to G-d.

On Shavuot, we celebrate the giving of the Torah — but the Talmud tells us that the angels objected. They wanted the Torah to remain in Heaven, in its pure spiritual state.In this class, Rabbi Amichai Cohen explores the deeper meaning of Moshe’s response to the angels and why the Torah was given specifically to human beings.Angels are holy, but they do not struggle in the same way we do. They do not live with ego, desire, relationships, pain, free choice, or the constant possibility of falling and rising. Human beings, however, can choose. We can transform. We can take the physical world itself and reveal G-dliness within it.This is the deeper gift of Shavuot: Torah comes down into the body, into our emotions, into our relationships, into our homes, and into the choices we make every day.A teaching on free choice, inner transformation, the angels, the two loaves of Shavuot, and the unique holiness of being human.May we receive the Torah anew with joy, depth, and inner transformation.Learn more:www.livekabbalah.com

Every year on the holiday of Shavuot, we receive the Torah anew. A new light enters the world, and a new channel opens in our relationship with the Divine and with ourselves.So often, we carry subconscious beliefs about G-d and Torah that are rooted in fear. Yet at the giving of the Torah, G-d first spoke to the women — with softness and tenderness.Shavuot is an invitation to open our minds, hearts, and bodies to receive the Torah in a new way. To connect to G-d not through fear or pressure, but through gentleness, receptivity, and love.Join me weekly for Own Your Light classes on livekabbalah.com

In this class from Tanya, we explore the inner power hidden inside everyday life. Nothing is random— every moment carries the potential to reveal or conceal the oneness of G-d in the world. We learn how even the most physical parts of life can become elevated when connected to intention, And even when we fall into distraction or self-focus, we discover that nothing is ever truly lost — everything can be lifted and returned to its source.This is about learning to live with awareness, softness, and power — turning ordinary life into something quietly sacred.To join weekly classes join the Light Warrior Circle. A beautiful global community of evolving souls. Check out livekabbalah.com to join. Miriam is an integrative Occupational Therapist who specializes in mind, body, and soul healing. Reach out to her to book a session at https://www.livekabbalah.com/own-your-light

The book of Bamidbar opens with a census. The third counting of the Israelites within a year. G-d already knows the number, so what is the counting for?Sefer Yetzirah asks the question that runs through these days. "Before one, what do you count?" We count forty-nine days of the Omer. The Torah tells us to count fifty. Which is it?In this teaching, we explore two accounts happening at the same time. G-d is counting us with infinite love every moment, and we are counting ourselves through the work of the Omer. Both are real. Both meet in the body, in time and space, in the giving of the Torah.Full blog and more teachings at livekabbalah.com.

Each week carries its own energy, its own map. This week, we cross into Parshat Bamidbar.Bamidbar means desert. A place where nothing grows. And yet the same word holds the root of daber, speech. The Torah is teaching us that the deepest speech rises from a vessel that is empty.We are inside the Yesod week of the Omer, moving from Tiferet sheb'Yesod toward the union of Yesod and Malchut, the masculine and feminine energies coming together as we move toward Sinai. Yosef HaTzadik is the archetype of Yesod, the inner control that becomes true expression. The Bris and the Pe, sealed by the same gematria.In the sky, Mercury enters Taurus, asking the mind to be grounded in the body. On Shabbat, Mercury meets the heart of the Sun, a cazimi, a clean reset in the way we perceive, communicate, and speak our truth. Chiron is in the same window, holding the long arc of healing in how we live what we know.Iyar is Ani Hashem Rofecha. The healing is real this week.To map your own soul, your own week, your own next move, find Soul Mapping at livekabbalah.com/soul-mapping.

This week we live with Parshat Behar-Bechukotai, and the theme that runs through both is bitachon, trust. Arguably, the hardest trait to truly acquire.Behar opens with Shmita and Yovel, in which we stop work and let the land rest. The Bat Ayin teaches that the holiness of the land comes before the labor, not after. Trust comes first.Then comes the quiet jewel of the parsha. Inside the letters of betach, hidden three times, is the gematria of kadosh, holy. Three kadoshes inside trust. The same triple kadosh of the Kedusha. When we live in bitachon, we discover that holiness is not only above us. It is hidden inside the trust itself.The Torah brings us its most human question, "what will we eat," and Reb Zusha's teaching on how anxiety closes the channel of blessing, and how G-d opens new ones when we forget.Bechukotai closes the teaching. Chukim means engraved through and through. Trust is not a concept we hold. It is engraved into the essence of who we are.What we explore in this episode:The Bat Ayin on why trust comes before the workThe hidden gematria of kadosh inside the word betachReb Zusha on what happens when anxiety closes the channel of blessingThe Mitteler Rebbe on bitachon as the inner structure of the soulBechukotai: turning concept into lived reality

Tanya Chapter 48 opens one of the deepest questions in Kabbalah. If the Creator is Ein Sof, truly infinite, how does a finite world come into being?In this episode we walk through the Alter Rebbe's teaching on Tzimtzum, the condensation that allows infinite light to clothe itself inside creation. We look at why even the highest spiritual worlds are still considered limited, why a dollar and a trillion are equal next to infinity, and what the Rambam means when he says that G-d is the Knower, the Knowledge, and the Known.The practical key in this chapter is simple. The infinite light is not far away. It is not only surrounding the world from beyond. It is inside every layer of physical reality. The work is to start seeing it, and to choose the infinite in real moments of our lives, in our calling, our relationships, our healing, our money, and our day to day choices.LIVE Kabbalah Tanya Series, Chapter 48.Three takeaways:Tzimtzum is not punishment, it is a love mechanism. The infinite condenses itself so that something limited can hold a relationship with it. Without Tzimtzum, there is no us.Finite is finite. A dollar and a trillion are equal next to the Ein Sof. This collapses the inner ranking we run all day, the comparing, the not enough, the more than. Next to infinity, all of it is the same size.The infinite is already inside the physical. The Rambam's framing, that G-d is the Knower, the Knowledge, and the Known, means the life force inside this earth, this body, this moment, is Him. The work is not to reach it. The work is to see it.

What is really happening when we pray? The Zohar reveals that tefillah is not words rising into empty air — it’s a yichud, a sacred union between the Shekhinah and her Beloved, drawn upward through our lips. A Kabbalistic teaching on prayer, intimacy with the Divine, and the hidden architecture of Shacharit, Mincha, and Maariv.In this teaching, we open a passage from the Zohar where Rabbi Shimon reveals the secret life of prayer. Prayer, he tells us, is not petition — it is unification. Our words don’t simply rise; they weave the upper worlds together, lifting the Shekhinah toward Zeir Anpin and drawing divine light back down into creation.We’ll explore:Why the early pious ones sat in silence for an hour before they dared to speak to GodThe three daily prayers as three distinct ascents — Shacharit through the name El (Chesed), Mincha through Elohim (Gevurah), and Maariv through the Tetragrammaton (Tiferet)The secret of em tishkevun — “the mother who lies between” — and what it teaches about the feminine and masculine within prayerWhy Eliezer’s silence at the well is really a teaching about Zeir Anpin waiting for the soulThe verse from Isaiah that reframes everything: before they call, I am already answeringWhy flowing prayer is the sign that heaven has already received youThe unification of Yud-Hei-Vav-Hei and Adonai — and why their gematria equals AmenThis is a teaching for anyone who senses that prayer is meant to be more than recitation. Come in slowly. Receive it the way the Zohar asks us to receive prayer itself — with preparation, with presence, with awe.Key Takeaways:Prayer is yichud, not petition — the sacred union of Shekhinah and Zeir AnpinPreparation is the prayer — the hour of silence is what makes the words landFlow is the signal — when prayer pours out of you, it has already been receivedThe three daily prayers map to three Sefirot and three divine namesForeplay of the soul — there is no real intimacy with the Divine without the warming, the arriving, the kavana

The tzaddik feels the fire when he does a mitzvah. Most of us don't. Tanya tells us why that's okay — and why the unification happens anyway.We're picking up from yesterday's teaching about the reciprocal love between Hashem and the Jewish people — how God descended from His glory to take us out of Egypt, and how that closeness now gets activated through our Torah, our learning, our thought, speech and action.Today the Alter Rebbe brings a striking line from Asaf in Tehillim: "I am like an ignoramus, like an animal with You — and I am always with You." On the surface, it sounds like a confession of inadequacy. On a deeper level, it's the secret of the beinoni.The tzaddik's physicality is so refined that when he does a mitzvah, awe and pleasurable love flood through him — he tastes the unification with the Creator, an inner Da'at that holds both chesed and gevurah. Most of us don't feel that. We do the mitzvah and seemingly nothing happens. Like an animal who can't fathom what the human is using him for, we can't perceive what's actually transpiring spiritually.And yet — "I am always with You." The density of being human doesn't block the connection. Darkness does not hide from Hashem. The same Torah works on the soul of the ignoramus and the soul of the tzaddik, because we share one root in Ein Sof.We also open the deeper Kabbalistic layer — why even Chochmah of Atzilut is called behemah, an animal, compared to its Source; how the name Ban (gematria 52, like behemah) carries the rectification; and why Iyar — the month of the ox — is the right doorway for this teaching.f this lands, come sit in a Soul Mapping session. Link in bio.TakeawaysYou don't have to feel the mitzvah for it to do its work. The unification happens whether or not your nervous system registers it.The tzaddik's awe and fire isn't reserved for him. It's a function of refined physicality — that's a path, not a gate."I am always with You" is the beinoni's anthem. Connection isn't earned by feeling; it's structural.The stringency around "don't-dos" — chametz on Pesach, work on Shabbat — makes sense once you see we share one soul-root in Ein Sof. There's only one Torah, working on all of us.Even the highest wisdom is "an animal" compared to its Source. Humility scales all the way up.

In today’s Tanya, we explore the deeper meaning of the blessing: “Who has sanctified us with His commandments.”The Alter Rebbe reveals that mitzvot are not only holy actions. They create a real union between the soul and the Ein Sof, the Infinite Light of G-d. Just as marriage creates a sacred bond between husband and wife, Torah and mitzvot bind the Jewish soul to its divine source.Even when a person does not feel it, at the moment of doing a mitzvah, the Infinite Light rests within them. This is why our sages teach that one should stand in the presence of someone engaged in a mitzvah — not only for the person, but for the divine presence revealed through them.