Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how Bina gives birth to emotions (middos) and how this relates to Teshuva I'laya'a in terms of the higher Hei and the Vav. I.e how and why studying Torah is the path to Teshuva I'laya. Iggeres HaTeshuva, 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...
Aug 04, 2024•22 min•Season 3Ep. 248
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the cleansing that occurs as a result of the lower level of Teshuva (Teshuva Ta'tah) as well as what is involved in the higher level of Tehuva (Teshuva Ila'ah). Iggeres HaTeshuva, 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...
Aug 02, 2024•24 min•Season 3Ep. 247
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how even minor transgressions can have a cumulative effect of being on par with the most severe transgressions. Iggeres HaTeshuva, 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 show...
Aug 02, 2024•22 min•Season 3Ep. 246
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how the path to a broken heart, which is necessary for doing Teshuva, is taking an honest accounting of one's actions and realizing their ramifications. Iggeres HaTeshuva, 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...
Aug 01, 2024•19 min•Season 3Ep. 245
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the two general aspects involved in lower Teshuva, namely 1)Compassion and 2)Subjugation. Iggeres HaTeshuva, 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...
Jul 31, 2024•34 min•Season 3Ep. 244
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how we have a choice as to which channel we receive our vitality from and how Teshuva can restore a more direct flow from our source. Iggeres HaTeshuva, end of chapter 6. 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 30, 2024•29 min•Season 3Ep. 243
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how while in the past, when we were on a higher level, we received our physical vitality in a more direct manner exclusively from our G-dly souls, nowadays, with the exile of the Schina (due to our actions), the vitality of transgressors flows via the zodiac, which is sourced in Klipas Noga. Iggeres HaTeshuva, beginning of chapter 6. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inqu...
Jul 29, 2024•30 min•Season 3Ep. 242
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how the 613 Mitzvos can be thought of a rope with 613 strands, which ultimately is G-d's Breath which is the vitality of the G-dly Soul. Iggeres HaTeshuva, Chapter 5. 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 28, 2024•23 min•Season 3Ep. 241
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how the Tetragrammaton contains all of the 10 sephiros within it and how this gets mirrored in Man. Iggeres HaTeshuva end 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 26, 2024•24 min•Season 3Ep. 240
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the uniqueness of the creation of Man in terms of him having been initially created through G-d's breath, rather than speech, like other creations. We also discuss the relationship of each of these to G-d's two names of Elokim and Havaya. Iggeres HaTeshuva middle 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 26, 2024•15 min•Season 3Ep. 239
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the difference between blowing (i.e. exhaling strongly) vs. speaking and how this relates to G-d's creation of Man. Iggeres HaTeshuva middle 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 25, 2024•15 min•Season 3Ep. 238
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 24, 2024•16 min•Season 3Ep. 237
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 23, 2024•22 min•Season 3Ep. 236
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how ideally a person should undertake the prescribed number of fasts for various (especially more severe) sins they transgress at least once in their life, and how these fasts can be broken down across years to make it easier. 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 22, 2024•16 min•Season 3Ep. 235
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. Today's episode has been generously sponsored by Ruta Cohen (Rus bas Natalya Esther) in honor of her birthday. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support th...
Jul 21, 2024•13 min•Season 3Ep. 234
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 19, 2024•15 min•Season 3Ep. 233
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 19, 2024•27 min•Season 3Ep. 232
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 18, 2024•28 min•Season 3Ep. 231
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 17, 2024•52 min•Season 3Ep. 230
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 16, 2024•13 min•Season 2Ep. 229
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 15, 2024•22 min•Season 2Ep. 228
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...
Jul 14, 2024•16 min•Season 2Ep. 227
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...
Jul 12, 2024•25 min•Season 2Ep. 226
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...
Jul 12, 2024•19 min•Season 2Ep. 225
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how the analogy of sunlight in relation to the sun, while far from perfect, is useful to us in terms of trying to understand G-d's Attributes in relation to Him. 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...
Jul 11, 2024•16 min•Season 2Ep. 224
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 Vehaemuna beginning 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...
Jul 10, 2024•15 min•Season 2Ep. 223
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...
Jul 09, 2024•21 min•Season 2Ep. 222
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...
Jul 08, 2024•23 min•Season 2Ep. 221
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...
Jul 07, 2024•17 min•Season 2Ep. 220
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. Today's episode has been generously sponsored by Chayamiriam and Joel Taurog for an aliyas neshama of Sarah Freidel bat Avraham Elya a'h. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support th...
Jul 05, 2024•33 min•Season 2Ep. 219
