Send us a text In today's episode we begin a discussion of coming to a more in depth understanding of what Teshuva is and introduce some related questions in this regard. Iggeres HaTeshuva, Beginning of chapter 4. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jul 09, 2025•16 min•Season 8Ep. 587
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how one should give extra charity as a way of redeeming the outstanding proscribed fasts (according to the more stringent opinions). Iggeres HaTeshuva, end of Chapter 3. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jul 08, 2025•27 min•Season 8Ep. 586
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how charity can serve as a substitute for fasting nowadays due to our generation not being as physically robust as generations in the past. Iggeres HaTeshuva, middle of Chapter 3. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jul 07, 2025•12 min•Season 8Ep. 585
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the deeper meaning behind why the sages settled upon the measure of having a sinner fast 3x the prescribed number of fasts for whatever sin they committed. Iggeres HaTeshuva, Beginning of Chapter 3. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jul 06, 2025•15 min•Season 8Ep. 584
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss what the role of fasting and inflicting suffering upon oneself might have if these are not part of the mitzvah of Teshuva. Iggeres HaTeshuva Chapter 2. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jul 04, 2025•27 min•Season 8Ep. 583
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss what is involved in the mitzvah of Teshuva and how fasting is not part of this, despite what many think. Iggeres HaTeshuva, end of Chapter 1. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jul 04, 2025•28 min•Season 8Ep. 582
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss a teaching in masechet Yoma about the three types of atonement necessary in the cases of three different types of transgressions. Iggeres HaTeshuva, Beginning of Chapter 1. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jul 03, 2025•52 min•Season 8Ep. 581
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how moonlight can be used as a good analogy to help us understand how lower creations receive their vitality from the more loftier creations which radiate the 10 utterances of creation in a more direct way. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, end of chapter 12. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jul 02, 2025•14 min•Season 7Ep. 580
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how every individual creation receives its vitality from a particular combination, transposition or substitution of the 22 letters contained within the 10 utterances of creation. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, beginning of chapter 12. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jul 01, 2025•22 min•Season 7Ep. 579
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss why it is that we call the building blocks through which G-d creates the world "letters" even though G-d's Speech is far above and the source of our wisdom and intellects. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah end of Chapter 11. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jun 30, 2025•16 min•Season 7Ep. 578
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the meaning and purpose of "letters of thought" and "letters of speech". Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, Beginning of Chapter 11. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jun 29, 2025•26 min•Season 7Ep. 577
Send us a text In today's Tanya we discuss how the seven days of the week come into being from G-d's Attributes. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, end of Chapter 10 Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jun 27, 2025•19 min•Season 7Ep. 576
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how the allegory of the sun and sunlight we use to understand the unity of G-d with His Attributes, is a useful allegory for us, however we must know that it is only an allegory. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, middle of Chapter 10. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jun 27, 2025•21 min•Season 7Ep. 575
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how the fact that G-d is united with His Attributes is just as incomprehensible as G-d Himself is. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, end of Chapter 9. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jun 26, 2025•20 min•Season 7Ep. 574
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how it is illogical to say that G-d is incomprehensible to us. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, middle of chapter 9. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jun 25, 2025•23 min•Season 7Ep. 573
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how G-d's Chochma (Wisdom, which is the highest attribute for us) can be likened to our Asiya (Action, the lowest attribute). Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, Beginning of Chapter 9. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jun 24, 2025•17 min•Season 7Ep. 572
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the attribute of Chochma and how it manifests within a person's and how all of the other attributes and soul garments stem out from it. Sha'ar HaYichud V'HaEmunah, End of Chapter 8. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jun 23, 2025•18 min•Season 7Ep. 571
Send us a text In today's episode we begin a discussion concerning how G-d's Attributes, as we reference them during prayer etc... are not the same as our own.' Sha'ar HaYichud VeHaemuna Chapter 8. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jun 22, 2025•17 min•Season 7Ep. 570
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the process by which G-d constricts the original 10 Utterances of Creation in order to create everything and how the numerical value of a created being (i.e the gematria of its name), is the most diminished manifestation of its G-dly vitality. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, end of chapter 7. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the...
Jun 20, 2025•30 min•Season 7Ep. 569
Send us a text In today's episode, we explore the two aspects of G-d's Light known as: Sovev Kol Almin and Memalei Kol Almin. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, middle of chapter 7. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jun 20, 2025•22 min•Season 7Ep. 568
Send us a text In today's episode, we address the mistake that some scholars make in interpreting the Tzimtzum as described by the AriZal literally and we discuss how G-d remains unaffected by the changes in the world, unlike the soul which is affected by the happenings of the body. Sha'ar HaYichud V'HaEmunah, Middle of Chapter 7. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the s...
Jun 19, 2025•18 min•Season 7Ep. 567
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how G-d's Knowledge is different than human knowledge and how we are incapable of understanding G-d's Knowledge. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, Middle of Chapter 7. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jun 18, 2025•19 min•Season 7Ep. 566
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how G-d is very much present within Space and Time through His attribute of Malchus. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, middle of chapter 7. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jun 17, 2025•17 min•Season 7Ep. 565
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the origin of time and space. Sha'ar HaYichud V'HaEmunah, middle of chapter 7. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jun 16, 2025•19 min•Season 7Ep. 564
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss G-d's Name of Adnus. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, Beginning of Chapter 7. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
Jun 15, 2025•15 min•Season 7Ep. 563
Send us a text This episode has been generously sponsored by Chavi Kelemer in loving memory of Yehuda Ben Dov Ber whose joy of teaching Torah inspired many others. May this learning give his neshama an aliyah. To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com In today's episode we discuss how the parable of the soul in relation to the body is not a good parallel to understanding G-d's relationship with His Creations. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah end of Chapter 6. Music ...
Jun 13, 2025•17 min•Season 7Ep. 562
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how we can understand how the inclusion of all of the middos within one another is due to them being sourced in the same place, namely the One G-d. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, middle of chapter 6. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram Contact us at: itistaught1@gmail.com Support the show...
Jun 13, 2025•26 min•Season 7Ep. 561
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss G-d's Name Elokim. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, Beginning of Chpater 6. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram Contact us at: itistaught1@gmail.com Support the show...
Jun 12, 2025•11 min•Season 7Ep. 560
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how G-d's Attributes of Chessed and Gevurah are sourced in the same place, however this is beyond the human intellect, no matter how lofty, to comprehend. Sha'ar Hayichud V'Haemunah, Chapter 5. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram Contact us at: itistaught1@gmail.com Support the show...
Jun 11, 2025•21 min•Season 7Ep. 559
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the origin of G-d's attribute of Constraint. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, end of chapter 4. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram Contact us at: itistaught1@gmail.com Support the show...
Jun 10, 2025•11 min•Season 7Ep. 558
