PODCAST · religion
Yesod Blocks: Foundational Torah
by yesodblocks
Big questions. Clear answers. Understand yourself, your life, and Hashem.
Episodes
-
Tikkun HaYesod Ep 1: Goals, Yesod, Sexual Desire
Sexual desire, confusion and issues are all over our culture, media and personal lives. The goal of this show is to clarify these issues, clean up the confusion and help us live this area in alignment with truth and divine integrity.
-
Ep #89: The Dark Side of Existence
For the full episode, visit Yesod Blocks or download our new app here.
-
Ep #87: Bar Mitvah
For the full episode, visit Yesod Blocks or download our new app here.
-
Ep #86: Disabled People
For the full episode, visit Yesod Blocks or download our new app here.
-
Ep #85: One Family
For the full episode, visit Yesod Blocks or download our new app here.
-
Ep #84: Divine Presence (Shechina)
For the full episode, visit Yesod Blocks or download our new app here.
-
Ep #83: Ze’er Anpin and Nukba
For the full episode, visit Yesod Blocks or download our new app here.
-
Ep #82: Male & Female in Minyan
For the full episode, visit Yesod Blocks or download our new app here.
-
Ep #81: Kaddish Alignments
For the full episode, visit Yesod Blocks or download our new app here.
-
Ep #80: Majorities in Minyan
For the full episode, visit Yesod Blocks or download our new app here.
-
Ep #79: Kaddish & Minyan
For the full episode, visit Yesod Blocks or download our new app here.
-
Ep #78: Kaddish Introduction
For the full episode, visit Yesod Blocks or download our new app here.
-
Ep #77: Olamot Flow
For the full episode, visit Yesod Blocks or download our new app here.
-
Ep 76 Core Structures
For the full episode, visit Yesod Blocks or download our new app at here.
-
Ep #74 Laws and Principles
For more, subscribed at www.yesodblocks.com and download our new app, Yesod Blocks.
-
Ep #83: Individual and Collective
The Daily Halakha and Kabbalah podcast returns with this new episode about the centrality of wanting/yearning/desire in the process of Tefilla/Alignment. To listen to these episodes on a daily basis, visit www.yesodblocks.com, subscribe, and download our brand new App from the Apple or Google App...
-
Ep #77: Hot Food on Shabbos
On Shabbat, we walk the knife's edge between the restrictions of Halakha designed to pull us out of our fixation on our creativity and the spiritual expansion derived from pleasurable experiences. Shulhan Arukh Orah Hayim 253:2.
-
Ep #76: Breaks and Accumulative Alignment
Balancing the different aspects of any given situation involves seeing its complexity, breaking that complexity into its granular components and then assessing the parts and whole. Shulhan Arukh Orah Hayim 53:17
-
Ep #68: Group Tefillah and Distortions
Partial perspectives, distorted opinions - these are more accurate descriptions for the concept of "politics." A group tefillah session, today called "minyan," has a structure to it, and when we understand the role of distortions in that structure, both positive and negative, this tool can become...
-
Ep #64:Shabbos Cooking Conclusions
The consciousness-level dynamic of Shabbat is profound and delicate. Developing the awareness of this dynamic is key to truly seeing melakha for what it is, and how to use it intentionally, and in healthy ways.
-
Ep #60: Stopping, Mind, Body
On Shabbat, we walk the edge, operating in the space between stopping and being. Learning to access our inner states of being, to access Hashem, in the space created by emerging from our Melakha funnels, is the key to unfurling the Neshama into higher form.
-
Embodied Torah Ep #5: Embodied Tefilla
Tefilla is an internal process of alignment. We have different tools we can use to activate the process of aligning ourselves with Hashem. The Siddur is the most known tool, but the physical actions we engage in during Tefilla are also part of the toolkit at our disposal. Understanding their…
more -
Ep #53 Baruch She’amar
In this episode, we begin moving into the next layer of existence explored in the system of Tefilla. Olam HaYetzira is the layer of "form" in which raw materials reflect intention and conviction.
-
Embodied Torah Ep #3: Alignment
Embodied Torah Part 3 is out! In this episode, Ariella and I discuss the concept of alignment, exploring how it pervades Torah and our living. The word "tefilla" actually means "alignment," but this is even deeper than it sounds. The stack of elements that the Torah calls the "tzelem elokim"…
more -
Ep #46: Melakha, Cooking and Balance
In this Erev Shabbos episode, we explore the balance of pulling back from melakha (the application of consciousness to the physical world in order to create higher order and organization in a permanent way) while still having some involvement with it on Shabbos. Often, because of the Etz HaDa'at…
more -
Ep #45 Women, Men and Torah
Female and Male, male and female, what are these models? How do they interrelate with the world of obligation and Torah? The answer is both more simple and more profound than today's cultural tendencies suggest...
-
Embodied Torah Ep #2: Breath
Welcome to Episode 2 of Embodied Torah! In this episode, we explore the concept of the breath, how breathing impacts our total neshama/body dynamic, and the underlying Torah depths of breathing. Ariella walks us through some breathing tools to help us harness this powerful aspect of our being....
-
Ep #42: Thought Fabric and Torah
Torah is the body of Hashem's thoughts, the way He thinks about things in the world. We can absorb those thoughts, and the underlying perceptions (de'ot) they embody, allowing us to become more real, true and clear.
-
Ep #41: Carrying, Sages, Rabbinical Decrees
This Erev Shabbos episode analyzes more forms of melakha, as well as the underlying depth of rabbinical decrees.
-
Ep #40: Stacks, Breaks, and Integration
Breaks in between a bracha and the corresponding action have a particular impact on the structural purpose of a bracha. We often think of the concept of "hefsek" as technical, but its depth is truly profound.
-
Ep #39: Spiritual of the Technical
Halakha can be technical, but it's strikingly simple to find the depth and layering underneath technical halakhot. The brakhot of Torah are examples of this truth, as they have technical aspects, while underneath, the layers and themes are profound.
-
Embodied Torah Ep #1
A brand new series from Yesod Blocks, Embodied Torah is a collaboration between Zev Bannett (the founder of Yesod Blocks) and Ariella Anouchi, a licensed and practicing Yoga therapist and Jewish educator. Join us as we explore how to embody and fully live out the profound Torah concepts discussed...
-
Ep #38: Truth, Affinity, and Torah
Little details of Halakha contain mountains of underlying truths and concepts. Accessing these truths and then embodying them is the goal of this whole process.
-
Ep #37: Melakha, Jews, and Non-Jews
How much distance from Melakha do we need in order to pull ourselves into the higher, fuller state of consciousness called "neshama yeteira?"
-
Ep #35: Torah, Loving What Is
Reality is real, but it's not always what we want. Torah and reality are one. Torah and reality can become what you want, when you learn to see the distortions in your own perceptual landscape.
-
Ep #32: Automatic Melakha
Melakha has three parts. It requires the application of our consciousness (neshama) to the material world. It requires that the application of consciousness leads to higher order organization in the material world. Lastly, it requires that the higher order state is permanent. We begin to explore...
-
Ep #31: Souls, Writing and Materializing
Simple halakhot on the surface... There is a mountain of underlying thought hidden beneath the waves.
-
Ep #26: Halacha is 5% of Torah
Halacha is the outer shell, the practical expression of the inner world of who you truly are. It is 5% of Torah, and the other 95% is the map of your internal "becoming."
-
Ep #20: Elokai Neshama, Gratitude and Admitting
In Torah, thanking someone means "admitting" - developing a deeper awareness that we are each a fragment, a powerful, individual part of a larger network of self. We each have the power to create, but we also rely on each other, and the Self of all Selves, to actualize the power within us.
-
Ep #17: Body Taboos
Our bodies are an integral part of the totality of our being. Perceiving this in a careful, truthful, balanced way has been difficult throughout history. The Torah is the key to achieving this balance.
-
Ep #14: Right, Left, and Hashem
The words you speak almost always generate a corresponding cascade of thoughts and associations in your mind, which you then use to further engage in conversation. Exception: when those words are said out of habit, and with no understanding. Experiencing Hashem, conversing with Hashem, saying...
-
Ep #13: Mikva, Water, and Infinity
It's hard to see the effect water has on us, because it's so easily accessible nowadays. But water can act as an experiential doorway to the infinite...
-
Ep #12: Sleep Death, Mouths and Nostrils
Prior to washing Netilat Yadayim, we are not supposed to touch openings of our bodies. The framework of thought underlying this is extensive and deep. The intangible world we experience is a vibrant backdrop to the tangible medium in which we live...
-
Ep #11: Hands, Death and Finiteness
We drill into morning Netilat Yadayim, discovering the profound underlying core that is manifest as this seemingly simple halakha.
-
Ep #10: Melakha, Order and Consciousness
Melakha is not "work," or "labor." Learning how to extricate ourselves from our own creative funnels is parallel to pulling ourselves out of a deep orientation of ourselves as our bodies, our professions, our desires, our emotions. We are beyond all those things, though we do operate in the world...
-
Ep #9: Bathrooms, Bodies and Balance
Bathroom humor seems to be part of an attempt to deal with the existential wackiness of our souls (selves) being linked to a body with so many issues, features and functions. The halakhot of the bathroom directly relate to this existential issue, and help us develop clarity in the relationships…
more -
Ep# 8:Kippot, Arrogance and Awareness
Covering our heads is an ancient and well-known halakha. It's supposed to help us remember "the One who is above us." But how does it do this, and where, exactly, is Hashem? Is He above us? Or everywhere? Or both?
-
Ep #7: Shoes, the Left and the Right
Is it important to put your shoes on in a certain order? Or could it be that there's something else important that is being expressed and reflected in how you put on your shoes? Unexpectedly, that "something else" is the key to solving the political divide destroying so much of today's culture.
-
Ep #6: Clothing, Nakedness and Sexual Energy
Halakhot of dress are the cover for a massive framework of perspectives of sexual energy. Understanding how this energy can pervade our perceptions is integral to healthy sexual relationships as well as every-day activities.
-
Ep #5: Shabbos, Creativity, and Stopping
What is the concept of "kavod Shabbos," or "honoring Shabbos?" We always hear that we "rest" because Hashem "rested," but that sounds strange in two different ways. What is the deep core of the halakha of Shabbos?
We're indexing this podcast's transcripts for the first time — this can take a minute or two. We'll show results as soon as they're ready.
No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.
No topics indexed yet for this podcast.
Loading reviews...
ABOUT THIS SHOW
Big questions. Clear answers. Understand yourself, your life, and Hashem.
HOSTED BY
yesodblocks
CATEGORIES
Loading similar podcasts...
Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does Yesod Blocks: Foundational Torah have?
Yesod Blocks: Foundational Torah currently has 100 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Yesod Blocks: Foundational Torah about?
Big questions. Clear answers. Understand yourself, your life, and Hashem.
How often does Yesod Blocks: Foundational Torah release new episodes?
Yesod Blocks: Foundational Torah has 100 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
Where can I listen to Yesod Blocks: Foundational Torah?
You can listen to Yesod Blocks: Foundational Torah on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.
Who hosts Yesod Blocks: Foundational Torah?
Yesod Blocks: Foundational Torah is created and hosted by yesodblocks.
URL copied to clipboard!