All Episodes

Samach Vav Part 204: Inspiration is only an introduction, not the actual avodah

Samach Vav Part 203: Avodah pnimis refines the animal soul and transforms the person

Samach Vav Part 202: Avodah b'koach atzmo sustains and internalizes the inspiration from above

Samach Vav Part 201: The natural ratzo of the soul is aroused by the ruach/razton from above

Samach Vav Part 200: The soul's ratzo is aroused by a divine power from above

Samach Vav Part 199: The soul's ratzo v'shuv comes from a higher divine power -- supernal whiteness

Samach Vav Part 198: A higher divine power causes the soul's ratzo and shuv -- Aaron's ahava rabba

Samach Vav Part 197: What causes the soul's ratzo and shuv?

Samach Vav Part 196: Torah Ohr (aish) is dependent on Ner Mitzvah (ruach)

Samach Vav Part 195: Ruach regulates and integrates he soul's ratzo v'shuv of tikkun

Samach Vav Part 194: The ultimate purpose is ratzo v'shuv -- dirah b'tachtonim

Samach Vav Part 193: Inspiration (ruach) awakens the inherent transcendence of the soul

Samach Vav Part 192: Air (ruach) causes fire to rise and fall

Samach Vav Part 191: Mochin and midos like taanug and ratzon in the core

Samach Vav Part 190: Mochin and midos -- fire and air: transcendence and relationship

Samach Vav Part 189: Mochin is cleaving to the divine; midos is arousal outside of the core

Samach Vav Part 188: Intellect reaches upward

Samach Vav Part 187: Neshama, intellect, like fire. Ruach, emotions, like wind

Samach Vav Part 186: The soul is both fire and wind (breath)

Samach Vav Part 185:To refine Esau, Jacob had to first fortify himself through the birurim of tikkun

Samach Vav Part 184: Living spring water reaches he'elem ha'Atzmus drawing it into Torah and mitzvos

Samach Vav Part 183: Teshuva requires a leap, unlike the orderly progression of tzaddikim

Samach Vav Part 182: Distress generates the most powerful, expansive force

Samach Vav Part 181: Teshuva reaches taanug ha'atzmi ha'bilti murgash, higher than tzaddikim

Samach Vav P. 180: 2 elevations in olam haba -- meal, taanug murgash, no meal, taanug bilti murgash

Samach Vav Part 179: In the 2nd elevation in the future the souls will hover above the chochma water

Samach Vav Part 178: Taanug ha'atzmi is the he'elem ha'atzmi of ein sof itself, totally ungraspable

Samach Vav P. 177: Taanug ha'murgash is taanug and he'elem ha'atzmi descending to being an interface

Samach Vav Part 176: The interface of Atzilus and of Torah

Samach Vav Part 175: Keser is an interface that connects Ohr Ein Sof with souls

Samach Vav Part 174: The interface of keser is similar to an interpreter

Samach Vav Part 173: Atik is a 'copy" of the divine essence, but also an interface to the emanations

Samach Vav Part 172: The ayin chochma allows us to have some grasp in the ayin of keser

Samach Vav Part 171: Taanug ha'poshut beyond any palpable pleasure (atzmus ha'taanug ha'ne'elem)

Samach Vav Part 170: Taanug ha'poshut expressed in a palpable sensation (taanug ha'bo b'murgash)

Samach Vav Part 169: 2 levels of vision in the future: the vision of sechel. ri'yas ha'mehus mamash

Samach Vav Part 168: Prophecy sees the very essence; wisdom sees with the eye of the mind

Samach Vav 167: Difference between taanug ha'murkav (shir koful) and taanug ha'poshut (shir poshut)

Samach Vav Part 166: the he'elem ha'atzmi of Ein Sof is higher than the he'elem ha'atzmi of chochma

Samach Vav Part 165: He'elem ha'atzmi of chochma is atzmus ha'taanug, revealed in the future

Samach Vav Part 164: Through chochma we reach atzmus, because pnimiyus abba pnimiyus atik

Samach Vav Part 163: Ayin of chochma is the ayin of keser; outer and inner chochma sti'maah are one

Is taanug ha'atzmi generated through Torah study (chochma) or mitzvos (seamless kabolas ol)?

Samach Vav Part 161: Opening of discourse 12: Questions on Vayetzei Yaakov m'Beersheba

Samach Vav Part 160: Exertion in Torah reaches the he'elem ha'atzmi, ayin lo ro'osoh of Eden

Samach Vav Part 159: Considering its great level, why did Reb Zeira fast to forget Talmud Bavli?

Intense pilpul is needed for Torah study outside of Israel, which reaches the he'elem ha'atzmi

Samach Vav Part 157: Pipul of Talmud Bavli reaches the he'elem ha'atzmi, the Torah in Atzmus

Samach Vav Part 156: Questions and answers refine the idea by removing the sediment and impurities

Samach Vav Part 155: Pilpul of Talmud Bavli leads to a crystal-clear understanding of the core truth

Samach Vav Part 154: The Second Tablets provide the greater strength needed for avodas ha'birurim

Samach Vav Part 153:Torah growth over the generations empowered them to face the growing challenges

Torah empowers the soul to refine the world; post-sin the 2nd tablets are needed for deeper refining

How can we explain the increase in Torah gained by the second tablets as a result of sin?!

Samach Vav Part 150: How could the punishment of exertion lead to the deepest and innermost truth?

Samach Vav Part 149: Deep study, effort and toil reaches the koach hi'uli ha'atzmi

Koach hiuli ha'atzmi, beyond structure and source, produces far deeper and unlimited ideas

Samach Vav Part 147: The koach ha'maskil is a manifestation of wisdom, lower than the core soul

Samach Vav Part 146: Chochmah in keser and keser in chochmah

Chochmah of ohr yoshor and ohr chozer are like the difference between coal and flint

Samach Vav Part 144: Two levels of concealment: with our without substance, hot coal vs. flint stone

Binah -- the power to dig deeper beyond the parameters of chochma and discover new insights

Samach Vav Part 142: "those who wait for him" are those who exert themselves in in-depth Torah study

Yaaseh l'mechakeh lo (hope) is the performance of mitzvos that generates ratzon and taanug ha'atzmi

Ratzon and taanug ha'atzmi in mitzvos; today the ratzon is revealed and the taanug concealed

Samach Vav Part 139: How taanug and ratzon interact with each other

Ratzon expresses the depths of the etzem; taanug ha'atzmi remains fundamentally concealed

Samach Vav Part 137: Ratzon, mesiras nefesh reaches Atzmus, deeper than revealed pleasure

Samach Vav Part 136: Taanug and ratzon's role in creating an interface between Atzmus and existence

Samach Vav Part 135: Ratzon expresses the intense drive of the soul, unlike conscious taanug

Samach Vav Part 134: Ratzon is expressive; taanug -- non-expressive

Samach Vav Part 133: Taanug ha'atzmi remains concealed and unexpressed

Samach Vav Part 132: Every ratzon has concealed taanug within

Samach Vav Part 131: Ratzon reaches higher than taanug, causing the soul to be in a state of shuv

The baal teshuva's transformation and mesiras nefesh is greater than that of the tzaddik's

Samach Vav Part 129:Difference between a tzaddik and a baal teshuva's repulsion to worldly pleasures

Samach Vav Part 128: Ratzon has the power to turn pleasure into pain and pain into pleasure

Samach Vav Part 127: How do we explain taanug and ratzon?

Samach Vav Part 126: Ratzon -- the inner driving force of mitzvos, and taanug its outer expression.

Samach Vav Part 125: Taanug and ratzon are one -- the level of etzem

A second, opposite mode: ratzon is the inner driving force, and taanug is its outer expression

Samach Vav Part 123: Pleasure is the inner driving force of the outer expression of desire

Samach Vav Part 122: Pleasure is the inner motive and vitality behind will

Samach Vav Part 121: Mitzvos reach and generate ta'anug ha'atzmi, the level which no eye has seen

Action-based Mitzvos in Asiya draw the etzem into the written and oral Torah (beriya and yetzira)

Samach Vav Part 119: How souls reach the etzem, re'usa d'liba, and then reveal it in giluiim

Re'usa d'liba's impact on mitzvos. Reaching re'usa d'liba through avodah with the revealed faculties

Samach Vav Part 117: Souls are connected with the Divine on a core level, like a child to a parent

Samach Vav Part 116: The love of re'usa d'liba is due to the soul's core connection with Atzmus

Samach Vav Part 115: Levels of contemplation in prayer that generate love, but cannot grasp Atzmus

Atzmus Ohr Ein Sof is completely beyond existence and all forms of comprehension, including negation

Samach Vav 113: No thought can grasp You at all. Two types of comprehension: Positive and negative

Samach Vav Part 112: The primary element in mitzvos is kabolas ol, which generates the ratzon atzmi

Samach Vav Part 111: The difference between sovev in creation and that revealed through mitzvos

Samach Vav Part 110: Mitzvos draw the core essence of ohr ein sof into existence

Difference between the inherent structure of creation and the desired structure of mitzvos

Samach Vav Part 108: The parameters of mitzvos are only a result of the divine desire, not inherent

Samach Vav Part 107: Difference between the desire for creation and the desire for mitzvos

Samach Vav Part 106: Review of the three levels in the Kav HaMidah

Samach Vav Part 105: Three levels in the kav ha'midah. The etzem can change the structure entirely.

Root of medidah in the pre-tzimtzum desire for existence that envisions all that will be actualized

Samach Vav Part 103: The partitions throughout the cosmic order, which conceal the divine light

Samach Vav Part 102: The light flows through one kav, and not many kavim, to create hierarchy

Samach Vav Part 101: The role of the elements used to create existence -- ohr ein sof, tzimtzum, kav

Samach Vav Part 100: The structure and hierarchy of existence is rooted in the kav

Samach Vav Part 99: Mitzvos draw down the ratzon from Atzmus, higher than the ratzon for existence

Samach Vav Part 98: Mati v’lo mati of Keser (ratzon) is the root source of ratzo v’shov of time

Samach Vav Part 97: Keser (ratzon) is above ratzo v'shov of time

Samach Vav Part 96: Rashbi's avodah and Torah drawing down from Atzmus, higher than containers

"With one bond I am bound; my soul is united to Him; aflame with Him" - Rashbi bound to Atzmus

Samach Vav Part 94: Mati v'lo mati in the revealed sefiros is ratzo due to feeling the source

Samach Vav Part 93: Mati v'lo mati due to Atzmus. Ratzo v'shuv due to the ohr itself sensing distant

Samach Vav Part 92: Mati v'lo mat exists in ratzon is not razto v'shov

Samach Vav Part 91: Ratzo v'shov only exists once ohr has emerged from the source but not in ratzon

Samach Vav Part 90: The role of rotzo v'shov in generating the segmentation of time

Samach Vav Part 89: The pulsating rotzo and shuv of divine energy generates the intervals of time

Samach Vav Part 88: Divine energy flows with the rhythm of rotzo and shuv, like human breath

Samach Vav Part 87: Spiritual anatomy of time: Time is rooted in the oscillation of Rotzo and Shuv

Samach Vav Part 86: Nine sefiros in Malchus, root of time and space; Keser Malchus -- above time

Samach Vav Part 85: Keser is above time of every respective structure. Time is a creation, Beriya

Samach Vav Part 84: Desire for finite existence and desire for infinite Torah and mitzvos

Samach Vav Part 83: Makif empowers the internal refinement of the world; Sukkos and Shemini Atzeres

Samach Vav Part 82: Keser, unlike the other sefiros, is only an expression of Atzmus

Samach Vav Part 81: Ratzon is an expression of the soul, unlike chochma which is a distinct entity

Samach Vav Part 80: 3 levels above: Concealed Keser. Revealed and shaped light. Uniqueness of ratzon

Samach Vav Part 79: Three levels in energies and containers; in the evolution of a thought

Samach Vav Part 78: The process by which one level emerges from another is like light and reflection

Samach Vav Part 77: Thought as energy

Thought is a garment "attached" to the energy within it. Thus letters of thought are like energies

Letters of thought are rooted in the spirit, but are not of the same personality as the spirit

Samach Vav Part 74: All revelations above are called ohr, being that they are merely reflections

Samach Vav Part 73: Mitzvos generate ratzon from its source in sovev into space and time of memaleh

Samach Vav Part 72: Core mitzvos, rooted in the inner desire, will be revealed in the future

Samach Vav Part 71: Mitzvos are rooted in inner desire

Samach Vav Part 70: Difference between inner and outer ratzon/desire, Kesser

Samach Vav Part 69: Difference between inner and outer ratzon/desire

Oisin retzono shel makom -- revealing G-dliness in existence the kav, and divine ratzon itself

Samach Vav Part 67: 1. Avodas Ha'Birurim' elvating the sparks to Biy"a. 2. Elevating them to Atzilus

Samach Vav Part 66: Piercing, stringing pearls is the work of uniting fragmentation with the kav

Samach Vav Part 65: Two kinds of service: 1. Menial labor. 2. Refined work, befitting the master

Samach Vav Part 64: Human service generates the renewal of the Divine desire for existence

Samach Vav Part 63: Pleasure in existence is finite. Mitzvos, rooted in core pleasure, is infinite.

Samach Vav Part 62: The reflection of pleasure too, diminishes from the moment of the epiphany

Samach Vav Part 61: Teshuva transforms the entire person and all his faculties

Samach Vav Part 60: Two ways that cause a longing for the Divine: Distance and closeness

Samach Vav Part 59: Two stages in the core shakeup caused by Teshuva: 1. distress, 2. longing.

Samach Vav Part 58: Etzem is indivisible and unspreadable.

Samach Vav Part 57: Pleasure -- the highest, and cause, of all faculties

Samach Vav Part 56: Revelation of core Eden through our work in refining the material world

Samach Vav Part 55: The higher a soul climbs the more it experiences the awesome wonder of Atzmus

Samach Vav Part 54: Levels in Nehar Dinor, cleansing and allowing the soul to elevate higher

Samach Vav Part 53: The partitions necessary to climb from a lower paradigm to a higher one

Samach Vav Part 52: Two Ways to Feel the Divine During Prayer; Bittul Prior to Prayer: Koved Rosh

Samach Vav Part 51: Contemplation of the Divine Within Existence and the Divine beyond existence

Hishtomimus (losing oneself). Effort. Prayer. Contemplating the bigger divine picture

Samach Vav Part 49: Bittul of a Lower Level to Elevate to a Higher Level

Bina flowing from Chochma irrigates Gan Eden's many levels -- ohr/expression of the seamless etzem

Samach Vav Part 47: Splitting the river separating Gan from Eden to reveal the Etzem of Eden

Samach Vav Part 46: Revealing the Etzem of Eden by splitting the river separating Gan from Eden

Samach Vav Part 45: Explanation of Eden -- taanug ha'atzmi ha'poshut (Yechayeinu 5691)

Samach Vav Part 44: Explanation of Eden -- taanug ha'atzmi ha'poshut (Yechayeinu 5691)

Samach Vav Part 43: All the levels in existence are finite, Mitzvos are infinite

Samach Vav Part 42: Torah draws down pre-tzimtzum Ohr Ein Sof below as it is above

Samach Vav Part 41: Post-Tzimtzum Kav Begins and Ends. Pre-Tzimtzum Ohr Ein Sof is Omnipresent

Samach Vav Part 40: Kav measuring and creating all parameters of existence

Samach Vav Part 39: Containers and energies of Atzilus are finite, create the hierarchy of existence

Samach Vav Part 38: Rosh Hashana - Purpose of Creation. In the Cosmic Order Everything is Finite

Samach Vav Part 37: Atzmus Taanug HaPoshut Manifests Exclusively Through Physical Actionable Mitzvos

Samach Vav Part 36: The Higher the Soul Elevates the More its Wonder of the Reality of Atzmus

Samach Vav Part 35: In the Infinite Light One Level Does Not Lead Into a Higher One

Samach Vav Part 34: 2nd Interpretation in Ad: Limit, Because We Cannot Reach Atzmus

Samach Vav Part 33: Two Interpretations in Adei Ad

Samach Vav Part 32: Beyond Existence Within Existence

Samach Vav Part 31: Soul's Multitude Elevations in Gan Eden

Samach Vav Part 30: River Strips Away, Pillar Facilitates Absorption

Samach Vav Part 29: Levels in Nehar Dinor

Samach Vav Part 28: The Deeper the Bittul the Greater the Revelation

Samach Vav Part 27: Connecting to G-d Through Prayer Needs to Be Preceded by Humility and Bittul

Samach Vav Part 26: Deeper Wisdom Requires More Effort and Bittul

Samach Vav Part 25: Bittul of a Lower Level to Elevate to a Higher Level

Samach Vav Part 24: All Gan Eden Elevations in All Their Levels Are Only Revelations

Samach Vav Part 23: Gan Eden -- Revelation of Atzilus via Binah Unified With Chochma

Samach Vav Part 22: Gan Eden -- Revelation of Atzilus via Binah

Samach Vav Part 21: The River Running from Eden into the Garden

Samach Vav Part 20: P. 15-26: Eden — Inner Chochma, Manifesting Inner Atik, Core Pleasure.

Samach Vav Part 19: Today We are a Reflection of Divine Desire as it Flows Diminished

Samach Vav Part 18: Mitzvos Draw Down Ani Havaya

Samach Vav Part 17: Additional divine energy generated through our Torah and Mitzvos

Samach Vav Part 16: Building a Home in the Lowest of Worlds

Samach Vav Part 15: Ultimate Purpose of Creation is Only the Desire of Having a Home

Samach Vav Part 14: The Ultimate Purpose of Creation is Having a Home in the Lowest of Worlds

Samach Vav Part 13: The Difference Between Atzilus and Biy"a

Samach Vav Part 12: The Ultimate Purpose of Existence is Not to Express G-d's Abilities

Samach Vav Part 11: The Letters of the Reshimu - Pre-Tzimtzum

Samach Vav Part 10: Memaleh, Sovev, Atzmus in the Human Psyche

Samach Vav Part 9: Koach and Poel On the Pre-Desire Level.

Samach Vav Part 8: The Purpose of the Cosmic Order

Samach Vav Part 7: Revealing the Divine Potential is Not the Ultimate Reason for Existence

Samach Vav Part 6: Reasons for Creation in Etz Chaim and Zohar

Samach Vav Part 5: What is Achieved Through Our Efforts?

Samach Vav Part 4: Purpose of Creation

Samach Vav Part 3: Why Does G-d Need to be Reminded of Us?

Samach Vav Part 2: Two Paths to Emotional Awakening

Samach Vav Part 1: Introduction