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A Treatise on the Individual's Nothingness, and on his Transcendence
Rav Yair Dreifuss • 2018A communal framework alone cannot provide a solution for the alienation of modern life, the loss of trust in ourselves, the feeling of existence ab...
A Treatise on the Individual's Nothingness, and on his Transcendence - Part 2
Rav Yair Dreifuss • 2018The estrangement and tight-fisted individualism are not an inevitable destiny; that with the slightest push these can be elevated to generosity, co...
Source and translation
Rav Achia Sandowsky • 2018Anyone who learns Torah from a translation may get stuck in the finality of the word, in the darkness, and not pass through the gate that opens to ...
The People who are supposed to believe
Rav Dr. Ori Lifshitz • 2018Parashat Shemot: After God sends Moshe to Pharaoh to be His emissary in the process of redeeming Israel from Egypt, He gives him signs and wonders ...
A Treatise on the Individual's Nothingness, and on his Transcendence - part 3
Rav Yair Dreifuss • 2018‘hosting,’ is an event that must be passionate, stimulating and exciting. In our world, other people are usually seen as distractions, burdens, thr...
A Treatise on the Individual's Nothingness, and on his Transcendence - part 4
Rav Yair Dreifuss • 2019The last part of the treatise: on the deep meaning of the wedding dances, and on Rav Nachman's tale of the Ba'al Tfila.
Torah 57: Medicine, the Sage's Wisdom and the Tikkun of Eating - part 3
Rav Shagar • 2008The third part of the shiur on Likutei Moharan 57: on the relation between language and reality, and on the similarity and differences between the ...
From Torahs to Stories - Part 1
Rav Yair Dreifuss • 2012At a certain point in his life, Rav Nachman shifted from Torah-teaching to story-telling. Why did Rav Nachman need stories? about stories of mayses...
Parashat Teruma – A Wedding
Rav Dr. Noam Samet • 2019In anticipation of the month of marriage - the month of Nissan - the month of Adar is described as the month of passion that comes just prior. This...
From Torahs to Stories – Part 2
Rav Yair Dreifuss • 2012Rav Kook calls upon a person to pay attention, to quiet oneself: to look at the light of the Shekhina that permeates one's surroundings. We are all...
Parashat Ki Tissa – True Rest
Rav Eitan Abramovitch • 2019The Sefat Emet, follow Rashi, teaching as about the different between 'peaceful and tranquil rest', and 'momentary rest'.
From Torahs to Stories – Part 3
Rav Yair Dreifuss • 2012Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev teach us about the experience of instantaneity by distinction between the ways in which Chaza"l describe the chazzan
