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Daily Inspiration With Rabbi Levi Avtzon — 203 episodes
Has the World Lost its Mind? Thoughts on Ukraine, Covid, and Assimilation
Why Me: Serving G-d because - not despite - Mental Illness
Does Your Daily Calendar Reflect Your Values of Family and Judaism?
Parenting is not that complicated... Really!
Have you Seen The Big Five: Thoughts from Pilanesberg
Friday Vort: The Difference Between Pity and Compassion and Why it Matters
Tuesday Prayer: Be Courageous, Be Strong: Hope Onto Hashem
Wednesday OURstory: The Fascinating History of the Month of Elul
Tuesday Prayer: Why King David Wasn't Fooled
Monday Mysticism: The Kabbalah of Elul
Friday Vort: Is Time Passing By Too Fast or Too Slow?
Wednesday OURstory: What is the Jewish Race? Were we always fair skin?
Tuesday Prayer: I Feel Unloved... So That's Why I Pray
Monday Mysticism: The Kabbalah of Resurrection
What I Would Tell You If You Were My Child: Tough Truth
Why You and I will Never Fully Agree: The Road to Wisdom #4
Friday Vort: Sweat The Small Stuff
Where To Find Your Wisdom: Part 3 on the Road to Wisdom
Humble Intellectualism: A Journey Towards Wisdom Part 2
Don't Be 'Open Minded'; Rather, Be An Intellectual!
Thursday Judaism 101: The Three Weeks and The Upcoming Fast Day
Tuesday Davening: Bring The Heart To Your Prayers
Monday Mysticism: Are You A Jew Of Pain Or A Jew Of Joy?
Friday Vort: Frantic and Fearful: The Biggest Challenge of Our Time
Friday Vort: Stop Running! Face Your Fears
Wednesday OURstory: Will Removing Our Yarmis (Kippa) Prevent Antisemitism?
Monday Mysticism: The Kabbalah of difficult feelings
Friday Vort: Don't Over-parent - And how should we judge successful parenting?
Wednesday OURstory: Our Reaction to Antisemitism. Is there another approach?
Wednesday OURstory: The Holy Land and the Jews - The history in 11 minutes.
Tuesday Davening: Thank You, Hashem for Placing Me Exactly Where I Need to Be
Monday Mysticism: The Kabbalah of Jerusalem
Friday Vort: Mount Sinai thoughts on Bill and Melinda
Wednesday OURstory: Racism isn't only morally wrong; It's historically wrong
Friday Vort: Truth isn't always Inspirational and Inspiration isn't necessarily the Truth
Thursday Judaism 101: What is Lag Baomer and why should I care
Friday Vort: Being a Good Person is Harder than Being 'Frum'
Thursday Judaism 101: The Special Chag Happening this Monday
Monday Mysticism: The Kabbalah of Endurance
Thursday Judaism 101: How Far Back Does Our Relationship with Israel Go?
Wednesday OURstory: Ashkenazis and rice and other customs that "make us Meshuge".
Monday Mysticism: The Great Paradox of Love
Friday Vort: Why I get annoyed when asked, "Rabbi did you call the Chev?"
Holocaust Memorial Day - The Story of My Great Grandparents and their Young Son
Tuesday Davening: Why Loving G-d is so Easy
Friday Vort: Are you a Matza or a Kitke?
Pesach Vort: The Strangest Pesach Of My Life Wasn't 2020...
Thursday Judaism 101 #30: How to do Pesach this Year In Short
Saturday Night Story: The Gangster's Revenge
Shabbos Sermon #29: Whoever Said That Faith Is Easy?
Thursday Judaism 101: Why Does Judaism Mix Into The Bedroom?
Tuesday Davening #29: Why Do We Daven SO MANY times each day?
Purim Sermon: It's Time to Face Ourselves... Especially the Male Gender
Thursday Judaism 101 #28: How to do Purim DIY
Wednesday OURstory #28: The History of Purim - When and Where
Tuesday Davening #28: My Chitchat with G-d while Taking a Walk
Monday Mysticism #28: The Kabbalah of Esther
Friday Sermon #27: The only Money You Truly Own is the Money You Give Away
Thursday Judaism 101 #27: What is Shabbat Zachor and Why You Should Care
Tuesday Davening #27: A story to Daven with
Friday Sermon #27: The Only Path to Joy is through Forgiveness
Thursday Judaism 101 #27: Why Today is a Mini Yom Kippur
Wednesday OURstory #27: The Bad Old Days in Western Europe
Tuesday Davening #27: Is it Davening that's Boring or Is It Us?
Monday Mysticism #27: What faith really means?
Story Time #26: The Foolish Pauper
Friday Sermon #26: When G-d spoke in Egyptian...
Thursday Judaism 101 #26: The Misconceptions about Honoring one's Parents.
Wednesday OURstory #26: Ashkenazi Jewry part 2
Monday Mysticism #26: The Kabbalah of Self Esteem
Friday Sermon: sharing my song for the Shabbos of song
Thursday Judaism 101 #25: What is Tu Bishvat all about?
Wednesday OURstory #25: the Fascinating History of Ashkenazi Jews
Tuesday Davening #25: Should you Pray in a Shul if you daven better at home?
Monday Mysticism #25: Is this world a jungle or a garden?
Sunday Song #25: The Rebel in Prison - Shamil
Short Story #24: Rabbi, don't talk to be about Judaism...
Friday Sermon #24: Being Stubborn Is Not Always a Good thing
Wednesday OURstory #24: Did the Exodus Story really Happen? And Who Won the US election?
Friday Vort #23: A little less talking. A lot more doing.
Sunday Song #23: How Great it Is To Be Innocent
Friday Vort #22: It's Not About Being Right
Wednesday OURstory #22: Why the Exodus Story is such a big deal
Tuesday Davening #22: The Kaddish
Monday Mysticism #22: The Kabbalah of Sleep
Friday Vort #21: final goodbye to 2020 - a lesson from Joseph and a Chinaman
Thursday Judaism 101 #21: Since when do Jews go pray at Cemeteries?
Wednesday OURstory #21: Why we are known as the children of Israel
Tuesday Davening #21: How To Bring Strong Emotions into your Davening
Monday Mysticism #21: Do You See Hashem's Hand?
Sunday Song #21: Hit the Rock!
Friday Vort #20: When Crying Is Not Enough
Thursday Judaism 101 #20: What Judaism Says about Cremation
Wednesday OURstory #20: First Temple Era and its Idolatry Obsession
Tuesday Davening #20: Every Day Is a Test
Monday Mysticism #20: The Kabbalah of the Sea and My thoughts on Yuval Noah Harari's book
Sunday Song #20: Song from my Grandfather
Story Time #19: Who Is The Real You?
Friday Vort #19: How Long Does It Take to Turn Your Life Around?
Thursday Judaism 101 #19: The Jewish Way in Holiday Making
Wednesday OURstory #19: The History of the Fast of Teves
Tuesday Davening #19: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Your Body and Soul
Monday Mysticism #19: Why Yesterday's Success is Today's Failure
Sunday Song #19: The Chanukah Song We Sang Together With the Lubavitcher Rebbe Each Day of Chanukah
Story Time #18: My Favorite Chanukah Story of all Time
Friday Vort #18: Selling your Brother into Slavery
Thursday Judaism 101 #18: How to Do Chanukah Like a Pro
Wednesday OURstory #18: Be Yourself No Matter Where the Wind Blows
Tuesday Davening #18: If Davening at home is working for you, should you come back to Shul?
Monday Mysticism #18: The Kabbalah of Chanukah
Sunday Song #8: A beautiful Song from the Alter Rebbe
Motzoei Shabbos Story #17: The Rusty Penny and the Miser
Friday Vort #17: Why You Should Sweat (Not Stress) The Small Stuff
Thursday Judaism 101 #17: The Four Words We Add to Amidah this Weekend
Wednesday OURstory #17: Is knowing Harry Potter Enough?
Tuesday Davening #17: What actually happens in davening?
Monday Mysticism #17: The Kabbalah of Rain
Sunday Song: A beautiful song from this week's Parsha.
Motzoei Shabbos Story #16: Stop running!
Friday Vort #16: You Are The Bomb!
Thursday Judaism 101 #16: What Does Judaism Say about Celebrating Your Birthday?
Wednesday OURstory #16: The Grass isn't Greener
Tuesday Davening #16: Adon Olam
Monday Mysticism #16: Do you really exist?
Sunday Song #6: Hashem, You Are Everywhere
Motzoei Shabbos Story #15: Are you a Maven in Jews?
Friday Vort #15: Loshon Harah is a Big Deal
Thursday Judaism 101 #15: Do Jews Respect the Environment?
Wednesday OURstory #15: Abraham's Descendants - the Arabs and the Jews
Tuesday Davening #15: Why loving your fellow Jew is Mandatory Before Davening
Monday Mysticism #15: Does Hashem really care what you eat and how you talk?
Sunday Song #5: The Song that Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks Asked to be his Epitaph
Motzoei Shabbos Story #14: The Surprised Thief
Friday Vort #14: Parenting Never Ends. And The Guilt Never Ceases...
Thursday Judaism 101 #14: Blessing The New Month
Wednesday OURstory #14: Was Abraham Really Such a Great Revolutionary?
Tuesday Davening #14: How We Could Help Each Other Have Great Marriages
Monday Mysticism #14: The Physics Of the Universe
Sunday Song #4: A short song that brings you back into davening
Motzoei Shabbos Story: The Scratched mirror and a lesson about greed
Friday Vort #13: The War Which No One Knows About Besides You
Thursday Judaism 101 #13: Why we greet angels on Friday night
Wednesday OURstory #13: The United States of Babel
Tuesday Davening #12: Thank you for choosing us!
Monday Mysticism #12: The Silliest Question
Sunday Music #3: A love song to Hashem
Motzoei Shabbos Story #11: When Darkness Becomes Light
Friday Vort #11: Volunteering is overrated
Thursday Judaism 101 #11: Rachel's Yahrzeit
Wednesday OURstory #11: The flood from the a historical perspective
Tuesday Davening #11: Sweet, sweet make it sweet.
Monday Mysticism #11: The Kabbalah of Unity
Sunday Music #2: A supercharged chassidic tune
Motzoei Shabbos Story #10: Thr childhood of Abraham and its powerful lesson
Friday Vort #10: To Forgive the Unforgivable
Thursday Judaism 101 #10: A Yarmi. Yarmulka. Kippa. What's it all about?
Wednesday OURstory #10 - Don't Forget Your History
Tuesday Davening #10 - Torah Blessings
Monday Mysticism #10 - The Kabbalah of the Flood
Sunday Music #1 - My Father's Favorite
Motzoei Shabbos Story #5 - When faith creates miracles - leeches and hot cups...
Friday Vort: Is Your Light Turned On? #9
Thursday Judaism 101 #9 - What is the Kashrut Industry all about?
Wednesday OURstory #9: How a society collapses
Tuesday Davening #9: The Miracle When your Body Works!
Monday Mysticism #9: Are Chagim and Shabbat a means or an end?
Thursday Judaism 101 #8: Your Table is Holy!
Wednesday OURstory #8: When did Idolatry start?
Tuesday Davening #8: Lulav in Middle of Davening?
Monday Mysticism #8: Does G-d Have a Hand?
Friday Vort #7: Is there room for joy in 2020?
Thursday Judaism 101 #7: When Judaism "costs too much"
Wednesday OURstory #7: Short History of Sukkot
Tuesday Davening #7: Hallel - the Joyous Prayer
Wednesday OURstory #6: Adam and Eve Had their first Grandchild!
Tuesday Davening #6: Al Chet
Monday Mysticism #6: Looking Deeply into Fast of Gedaliah
Thursday Judaism 101 #5: How to run a Rosh Hashanah Dinner DIY.
Wednesday OURstory #5: A powerful lesson from history's first murderer
Tuesday Davening #5: Praying for Grace.
Monday Mysticism #5: Your Imperfections Make You Attractive
Motzoei Shabbos Story #4: Midnight Madness?
Friday Vort - Story #4: 9/11 Eyewitness Account
Thursday Judaism 101 #4. Seli-what?
Wednesday OURstory #4: Abel as Moses?
Tuesday Davening #4: Avinu Malkeinu
Monday Mysticism $4: Where does the human need for a home come from?
Motzoei Shabbos Story #3: No Original Names
Thursday Judaism 101 #3: Elul In Practice
Wednesday OURstory #3: Not an Apple Tree!
Tuesday Davening #3: Modeh Ani
Monday Mysticism #3: Deep stuff. What Kabbalah is coming to answer.
Motzoei Shabbos story #2: An Old Tale That Is Deeply Resonating
Friday Vort #1: Do It Buddy!
Thursday Judaism 101 #2: Simple is Sophisticated
Wednesday OURstory #2: Adam and Eve the siamese twins.
Tuesday Davening #2: What is Davening?
Monday Mysticism #2: What is Kabbalah?
Motzoei Shabbos Story #1: The Boy Who Crowed Like a Rooster
Thursday Judaism 101 #1: The Jewish Calendar Explained
Wednesday history #1: an introduction to Jewish OURstory.
Tuesday Davening #1: What is a Siddur
Intro and Monday Mysticism #1