From a short teaching by Rabbi Amichai Cohen for Hoshana Rabbah, recorded for The Live Kabbalah Podcast.

The willow takes the primary focus

The last day of...

During Sukkot, we leave our permanent home and enter a temporary dwelling. There is something very honest about that movement. Life changes. Our feelings change...

Based on our Light Warrior Circle class, The Mystery of the Hebrew Letters, with Rabbi Amichai Cohen.

Yom Kippur is behind us. We were lifted, we were forgiven,...

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Listen to the teaching: 5787: The Year of Paz, Finding the Gold Within on Spotify (10 minutes).

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The Hebrew letter Peh means mouth.

It is the letter of speech and expression, but it also opens a deeper teaching about the face. In Hebrew, panim means face, ...

In Parashat Nitzavim, the Torah presents us with one of its most direct and enduring teachings: life is a choice.

“See: today I have placed before you life a

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The Letter Ayin: Higher Unity, Lower Unity, and the Shema

The Shema does not only tell us that G-d is One.

It asks us to become witnesses to that oneness and ...

The Letter Ayin: The 70 Gates of Seeing

What are you looking at, but not truly seeing?

This teaching is part of our Light Warrior class series, The Secret of ...

The Two Judges Within

This week in our Tanya class we continued with the Benoni, the in-between person. It is a comforting teaching, because the Benoni is not...

What remains when the roles, achievements, and approval fall away?

In Episode 2 of Higher Mazal, Rabbi Amichai Cohen and Rachel Schwartz explore the Leo eclips...

Mem is the mother letter.

It is the first sound a child makes. Mama. It does not matter what language, what country, what background. The first utterance of a ...

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As we enter Tisha B'Av, the day the two Temples fell, we stand before a very solemn day, a day bound up with destruction,...