Send us a text In today's episode we introduce the concept of Tzimtzum; G-d's ability to constrict and conceal Himself so that created beings won't be nullified in their source. We discuss how it is just as beyond our comprehension to understand this attribute of contraction within G-d as it is for us to understand G-d's expansiveness. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, middle of Chapter 4. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram Contact us at: itistaught1@gmail.com ...
Jun 09, 2025•20 min•Season 7Ep. 557
Send us a text In today's episode we begin to discuss the idea of how just as the sun needs a protective shield for us to be able to handle its rays, so does G-d's Name of Havaya need a protective shield for us to be able to experience Him in a way that we can handle. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, Beginning of Chapter 4. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram Contact us at: itistaught1@gmail.com Support the show...
Jun 08, 2025•20 min•Season 7Ep. 556
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the sun in relation to its sunlight as an analogy to understand G-d in relation to His Creation and then bring up a challenge to this analogy. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, middle of Chapter 3. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram Contact us at: itistaught1@gmail.com Support the show...
Jun 06, 2025•16 min•Season 7Ep. 555
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how dependent creation is on G-d's Speech to sustain it. Sha'ar HaYichud Ve'Haemunah, Beginning of Chapter 3 Article referenced: 99.9999999% of Your Body Is Empty Space Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram Contact us at: itistaught1@gmail.com Support the show...
Jun 06, 2025•14 min•Season 7Ep. 554
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the difference between how G-d creates vs. how humans create. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemuna, Beginning of 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...
Jun 05, 2025•23 min•Season 7Ep. 553
Send us a text In today's episode, we discuss how those things which are not explicitly mentioned in the Ten Utterances of Creation still come from the letters of those Utternaces. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, 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...
Jun 04, 2025•19 min•Season 7Ep. 552
Send us a text 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 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...
Jun 01, 2025•16 min•Season 7Ep. 551
Send us a text 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".. End of Chinuch Katan. 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 01, 2025•20 min•Season 7Ep. 550
Send us a text 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 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 01, 2025•15 min•Season 7Ep. 549
Send us a text 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 that even when he ages it won't depart from him". Beginning of Chinuch Katan. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support t...
May 30, 2025•30 min•Season 7Ep. 548
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how performing mitzvos is likened to a candle. Likkutei Amarim, end of chapter 53. 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...
May 30, 2025•21 min•Season 6Ep. 547
Send us a text 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, middle of Chapter 53. 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...
May 29, 2025•23 min•Season 6Ep. 546
Send us a text 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 Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
May 28, 2025•22 min•Season 6Ep. 545
Send us a text 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 Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
May 27, 2025•24 min•Season 6Ep. 544
Send us a text 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 Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
May 26, 2025•21 min•Season 6Ep. 543
Send us a text 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. 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...
May 25, 2025•15 min•Season 6Ep. 542
Send us a text 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 Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
May 23, 2025•12 min•Season 6Ep. 541
Send us a text 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's Light is most concealed here in our physical world. Likkutei Amarim, Middle of Chapter 51. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com...
May 23, 2025•34 min•Season 6Ep. 540
Send us a text 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 Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
May 22, 2025•18 min•Season 6Ep. 539
Send us a text 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 Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
May 21, 2025•18 min•Season 6Ep. 538
Send us a text 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 Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
May 20, 2025•19 min•Season 6Ep. 537
Send us a text 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 50 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...
May 19, 2025•21 min•Season 6Ep. 536
Send us a text 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 power of speaking words of Torah out loud and how this is essential for fulfilling our purpose on Earth. Likkutei Amarim, end of chapter 49. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for...
May 18, 2025•17 min•Season 6Ep. 535
Send us a text 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 Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
May 16, 2025•29 min•Season 6Ep. 534
Send us a text 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 Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
May 16, 2025•35 min•Season 6Ep. 533
Send us a text 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 Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
May 15, 2025•15 min•Season 6Ep. 532
Send us a text 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 Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
May 14, 2025•14 min•Season 6Ep. 531
Send us a text 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 Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show...
May 13, 2025•23 min•Season 6Ep. 530
Send us a text 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. 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...
May 12, 2025•11 min•Season 6Ep. 529
Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the deeper meaning behind the daily obligation of every individual to see his or herself as if he or she left Egypt. Likkutei Amarim, Chapter 47. 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...
May 11, 2025•15 min•Season 6Ep. 527
