It Is Taught Tanya Podcast
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590 episodes
Episode 551- 7 Sivan (Regular Year) - What Does Monotheism Really Mean?
In today's episode we discuss how the Ten Utterances through which G-d created the world are the fundamental building blocks of all of creation.Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemuna, Beginning of Chapter 1Music by
Episode 550- 6 Sivan (Regular Year) - Why Do Muscles Tear Before They Grow?
In today's episode we discuss the deeper meaning behind the verse from Mishlei, “For a tzaddik may fall seven times, yet rises again.” (Mishlei, 24:16) and how this relates to the idea of "educating a child according to his ways etc".....
Episode 549- 5 Sivan (Regular Year) - Can You Choose to Love Someone?
In today's Tanya we discuss the type of Love which Moshe Rabeinu wished to instill in every Jew. Middle of Chinuch Katan. Music by Shosha...
Episode 548- 4 Sivan (Regular Year) - Beginner's Mind
In today's episode we begin to discuss Chinuch Katan, which is the introduction to the section of the tanya known as Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah. The section deals with understanding what it means to "educate a child according to his youth such ...
Episode 547- 3 Sivan (Regular Year) - A Candle Meditation
In today's episode we discuss how performing mitzvos is likened to a candle.Likkutei Amarim, end of chapter 53.Music by Shoshannah.&n...
Episode 546- 2 Sivan (Regular Year) - Where Has Divinity Gone?
In today's episode we discuss what happened to the Shechina after the First Temple was destroyed, both in the times of the Second Temple, as well as in our times now that the Second Temple has been destroyed as well.Likkutei Amarim, mid...
Episode 545- 1 Sivan (Regular Year) - A Blip in Nature
In today's episode we discuss how the Tablets upon which were engraved the Ten Commandments revealed the Shechina in a much stronger way than any other physical creation.Likkutei Amarim, Beginning of Chapter 53.Music by
Episode 544 -29 Iyar (Regular Year) - Is G-d a She?
In today's episode we discuss how the Schina descends from Malchus of Briya all the way down into our world. Likkutei Amarim, End of Chapter 52. Music by
Episode 543- 28 Iyar (Regular Year) - Who Are Your Parents, Really?
In today's episode we discuss how the Shechina descends from world to world, focusing on it's descent from the world of Atzilus into the world of Briyah. Likkutei Amarim, end of chapter 52.Music by
Episode 542- 27 Iyar (Regular Year) - Don't Look Directly at the Sun!
In today's episode, we discuss how the Shechina is too intense for the worlds to handle without garments and how G-d's Will and Wisdom as vested in Torah serve as garments for the Shechina.Likkutei Amarim, Middle of Chapter 52.M...
Episode 541- 26 Iyar (Regular Year) - Matrilineal Descent
In today's episode we discuss the Shechina and its parallel to the human brain in relation to the organs of the body. Likkutei Amarim, Beginning of Chapter 52.Music by
Episode 540 - 25 Iyar (Regular Year) - Have You Ever Been to a Light Show?
In today's episode we discuss how G-d's essence is hidden equally within the supernal worlds is it is in the lower worlds, how G-d's light, as manifest by a vital flow, is revealed in different degrees through different worlds and how G-d...
Episode 539- 24 Iyar (Regular Year) - Are We Living in a Simulation?
In today's episode we discuss how the brain is the main dwelling place of the soul and the source through which the rest of the body receives it's vitality. Likkutei Amarim, Middle of Chapter 51.Music by
Episode 538- 23 Iyar (Regular Year) -It's Not Your Eye That Sees. It's Your Brain.
In today's episode we to discuss the soul is equally present throughout the body and is not made up of composite parts as one might think. Likkutei Amarim beginning of Chapter 51.Music by
Episode 537- 22 Iyar (Regular Year) - Sometimes Loving Means Holding Back
In today's episode we discuss how we can be motivated to keep Torah and Mitzvos if we are tapped into the type of love towards G-d which makes us want to expire in our Source.Likkutei Amarim, end of chapter 50.Music by
Episode 536 - 21 Iyar (Regular Year) - Is Lovesickness Fatal?
In today's episode we discuss another type of love of G-d which is unique in that it stems from the Left side and is related to the Levites.Likkutei Amarim, Beginning of Chapter 50Music by
Episode 535 - 20 Iyar (Regular Year) - How to Kiss G-d
In today's episode we discuss how deep meditation upon everything we've learned in this chapter so far should lead to a person wanting to connect with G-d with an aspect of a kiss, and we talk about what this means. We also discuss how the powe...
Episode 534 - 19 Iyar (Regular Year) - Overcoming Codependency
In today's episode we discuss the connection the two blessings we recite before the Shema have with the Shema prayer. Likkutei Amarim, Middle of Chapter 49.Music by
Episode 533 - 18 Iyar (Regular Year) - Music is the Silence Between the Notes
In today's episode we discuss the three general Tzimtzumim and how this relates to our service of G-d.Likkutei Amarim, Beginning of chapter 49.Music by
Episode 532 - 17 Iyar (Regular Year) - The Greatest Magic Trick
In today's episode we discuss how G-d's Thought literally encompasses the entire Earth and also what is meant by G-d being the Knowledge, the Knower and the Known. Likkutei Amarim, middle of Chapter 48.Music by
Episode 531 - 16 Iyar (Regular Year) - Curtain Call
In today's episode we further explore the nature of G-d's Light of Sovev Kol Almin.Likkutei Amarim, middle of chapter 48.Music by Shoshan...
Episode 530 - 15 Iyar (Regular Year) - Zeno's Paradox
In today's episode we discuss the concept of infinitude and how this relates to G-d's Light. Likkutei Amarim, Middle of Chapter 48.Music by
Episode 529- 14 Iyar (Regular Year) - How Do We Exist?
In today's episode we discuss how unnatural it is that our world, and all other worlds exist in a finite manner when we come from an Infinite Light which emanates out of an Infinite G-d.Likkutei Amarim, Beginning of Chapter 48.M...