What is so special about the Hebrew letters?  Aren’t they just like the letters in every other alphabet?  Join us as we begin our journey to discover the mystical secrets embedded in the letters of the  Aleph Beit.

What are the Kabbalistic concepts important to know, in order to understand the letters of the Aleph Beit? In this second class, we discuss the Names of God and begin our discussion on  Tzimtzum and the Sefirot.  

Have you wanted a good, down-to-earth description of the Sefirot? In this  third class, we review and then go deeper into the archetypal energies of creation, touching on many of  the core Kabbalistic concepts necessary to understand the Hebrew  letters.

What is the Ineffable Four Letter Name of God? How is all of Creation—the worlds and souls—rooted in  the four letters of God’s name? In this fourth class, we review "Provisions for the Journey” up to this point and then further explore these ideas in depth.

Aleph is the first and the  head of all the letters. Explore the secrets held by Aleph: the Aluf HaOlam (God, the Creator), God’s  vision of loving relationship with His Creation,  the unity of all,  Oneness, and one thousand.  

Dive deeper into the Aleph. Discover who Primordial  Adam really was, and how “the Accomplished Woman” relates to the lower Yud visible within the letter  Aleph. 

Beit, the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, is the letter of the “other” entity that God created for His vision of loving relationship. We are this “other,” and our mission is to create a home for God in this lowest world.  Discover how “blessing,” “knees,” “two-ness,” and “the process of perfecting” are all part of the beauty of the Beit.

Gimel is the third letter of the Aleph Beit, and it is about the relationship between the Creator and His Creation. Gimel is about giving… it’s about growth, reward and punishment, reincarnation and the numerical value of three. Come and explore with us! 

Dalet is the fourth letter of the Aleph Beit, and with it, details about Creation begin to unfold. Dalet is about the poor one, humility, diminishment, and drawing up the empty bucket. In Dalet we begin to explore the fascinating midrash of the sun and the moon, as revealed in the Talmud and later commentaries. 

God created This World, the world of tikkun,  with the fifth letter of the Aleph Beit—the letter Hei. Discover how Hei is uniquely linked to teshuvah (return), creative expression, and the Cosmic Feminine. 

Why is this podcast called “It’s All About Relationship?”

Because relationship is the template for everything in this world.  Before creation, there was only God. He was ALL, filled all, existed for all time…perfect and complete. But since there was no other, in some mysterious sense, He was missing the experience of giving goodness to an “other.” He was missing the experience of actualized relationship….

How is God’s creation of an “other” from His Oneness, reflected in the Torah through the story of Adam and Chava. And how did the debacle of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil fundamentally change their—and our—relationship with Him through time?

What is the dance of Run and Return? And how do we see it reflected in our  spiritual  goals of actualizing  our unique potential and coming  closer  to God in holy union?  Explore the dance of our divine souls as we run and return from expanded consciousness into our busy daily lives. 

How do we balance between the run and the return of our lives?  Running down to the world is easy for us. Our lives are about  taking action - whether we’re working for our bread and butter or taking care of our family. What’s more difficult, however,  is to remember to take the time to connect with our souls and with God.

This episode is a little different. It’s a ten minute meditation to help you slow down and connect to the Holy One, and there are two different options! I’m guiding one and my husband, Shaul Gedalyah is guiding the other. They’re both identical... just the voices are different.

What do the words  “Yom Kippur” actually mean? What does the word “atonement” mean?  Yom Kippur is about a completely new start. It’s about clearing our debts, our broken promises to each other and our broken promises  to God. Yom Kippur is about  becoming clear,  ourselves, so that our soul can return to her pristine state and shine out through the physicality of her body..  Yom Kippur is  the “reset” that brings us all to a new beginning.

Pull up a chair and join me in my Sukkah for a few minutes! (Listen for the birds singing in the background!) And learn how to build yourself a spiritual sukkah out of the Six Constant Mitzvot… one that you can carry around with you always!

We’ve got an intelligent soul within a physical body that is capable of choosing connection with its source... No other creation can create conscious connection. This happens when we tune in to our soul by slowing down and going inside. This meditation helps us relax and tune in to our connection with our soul of infinite light... rooted in the heavens and anchored into this physical world.

Listen to this meditation after you’ve listened to the class on the letter Aleph or after reading the "Aleph"chapter.

A kabbalistic look at the essence of being human. The Torah describes human beings as being created “in the image of God.” Since God is the Creator of heaven and earth, we, too, must be creators...