Send us a text In today's episode we discuss another method that the Alter Rebbe gives for being joyous - namely to meditate on the omnipresent nature of G-d. Likkutei Amarim, Beginning of Chapter 33. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how to reconcile the idea that we are supposed to love every Jew with the teaching in the gemara that there are times when we must hate a Jew who we witness sinning. Likkutei Amarim, End of Chapter 32. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how everything we've been discussing about seeing the body in a negative light and shifting our focus to the G-dly soul can help us fulfill the commandment of loving our fellow Jew. We also discuss why it is that Hillel the Elder taught that this mitzvah is "the entire Torah". Likkutei Amarim, Beginning of Chapter 32. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: it...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how a person can increase their joy when they shift their focus on to how G-d created their body and animal soul and with the purpose of elevating these through Torah and Mitzvos. Likkutei Amarim, End of Chapter 31. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we describe the great joy that a person should feel when they redeem the G-dly soul from exile through Torah and Mitzvos, as well as how the animal soul and body still stay steeped within the klipos at least until the time of the complete redemption. Likkutei Amarim, Middle of Chapter 31. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how the bitterness one experiences after becoming angry at how far they are from G-d can be transformed into joy by focusing on having compassion on their exiled G-dly Soul. Likkutei Amarim, Middle of Chapter 31. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how to avoid falling into a sadness/depression as a result of the techniques the Alter Rebbe had provided in chapters 29 and 30 to overcome a feeling of blockage in their heart in one's service of G-d. Likkutei Amarim, Beginning of Chapter 31. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how our service of G-d should be such that we are in a state of "battle" with our body and animal soul. Likkutei Amarim, End of Chapter 30. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the precept from Pirkei Avos to be "lowly of spirit before every man" and how every person needs to focus on exerting themselves in their own personal service of G-d. Likkutei Amarim, Beginning of Chapter 30. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how the Sitra Achra is substance-less which is why it disintegrates when the light of holiness is illuminated. We also discuss how this illumination from the G-dly soul can be stimulated when our animal souls are shot down/shaken up. Likkutei Amarim, End of Chapter 29. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how the more we meditate and learn about the falsehood and evil of our negative impulses, the more we can dispel their hold on us and the eyes of the G-dly soul can better perceive the truth. Likkutei Amarim, Middle of Chapter 29. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how doing a spiritual accounting of one's past deeds and dreams as a way of humbling themselves with the goal of opening their heart to serve G-d. Likkutei Amarim, Middle of Chapter 29. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how the fact that a Beinoni always has the capacity to desire things that are not for the sake of G-d, makes his essential "self" i.e animal soul worse than an animal. Likkutei Amarim, Middle of Chapter 29. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we explore the advice the Alter Rebbe gives for those who experience a "blocked heart" when it comes to their service of G-d. Likkutei Amarim, Beginning of Chapter 29. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss why we tend to let inappropriate thoughts during prayer and Torah study distract us, and what to do about it. Likkutei Amarim, End of Chapter 28. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how to deal with inappropriate thoughts which arise during prayer or Torah study. Likkutei Amarim, Beginning of Chapter 28. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the great spiritual effects delaying our gratification even for permissible things has. Likkutei Amarim, End of Chapter 27. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the special pleasure that the service of the Beinonim bring to G-d in their struggle with their impulses, and how it compares to the pleasure G-d gets from the service of Tzaddikim. Likkutei Amarim, Middle of Chapter 27. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss why a person should not dwell on inappropriate thoughts when they arise in their mind but rather push them aside. Likkutei Amarim, Beginning of Chapter 27. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how to overcoming sadness regarding spiritual matters (i.e. feeling sad about the sins we have committed). Likkutei Amarim, End of Chapter 26. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how a person can alleviate feelings of sadness and worry regarding worldly matters. Likkutei Amarim, Middle of Chapter 26. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode, we discuss why sadness is such a detrimental trait that has no value in its own right, unless it is used to lead to greater happiness. Related video: The Swamp of Sadness (from the Neverending Story movie) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsKu3Jh5IAs&t=0s Likkutei Amarim, Beginning of Chapter 26. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss why asking G-d to forgive us 3x per day in the Shmonei Esrei prayer (in the blessing Shlach Lanu) does not mean that we sin and have in mind that we'll repent later (which is not allowed). And we also discuss why it is essential for us to assert our willingness to sacrifice our lives for G-d every day even if we won't practically be faced with such a test in actuality. Likkutei Amarim, End of Chapter 25. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Fa...
Send us a text In today's episode, we discuss how the same logic which makes refraining from transgressing G-d's prohibitions very accessible to every Jew, can be applied to exerting oneself in regards to performing the positive commandments. Likkutei Amarim, Middle of Chapter 25. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how the fact that a Jew is willing to sacrifice their life rather than renounce G-d's unity in an overt way, should motivate a person to not want to ever do even the smallest thing which is against the will of G-d, as even the most minor transgression separates a person from G-d's Unity. And the pain of withstanding temptation is surely easier and less painful to endure than the pain of death which a Jew would willingly suffer rather than renounce G-d...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how the different exceptions and punishments for various transgressions are not reflections of their varying severities, and how any transgression brings a person's G-dly soul down into the realm of the Sitra Achra and Klipos. Likkutei Amarim, End of Chapter 24. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/It-Is-Taught- Twitter: https://twitter.com/itistaught Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itistaughtpodcast/ To sponsor a...
Send us a text Special Tu B'Shvat Episode Based in part on a discourse by the Lubavitcher Rebbe found in Toras menachem from the year 5722 (1962) Link to r elated Times of Israel Blogpost Support the show
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the idea of how it is that when a person does something which is against the will of G-d, it is because a spirit of folly enters into them. Likkutei Amarim, Middle of Chapter 24. 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...
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how when a person engages in something which is prohibited by G-d, their animal souls and its garments become degraded below the source of these prohibitions (i.e the Sitra Achra and Klipos). Likkutei Amarim, Beginning of Chapter 24 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...
Send us a text In today's episode, we discuss how being involved in Torah study leads to a great awe of G-d. Likkutei Amarim, end of Chapter 23. 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...
