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 ...

Listen to the full reflection:

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,...

There is the I, and then there is the I.

One of them is a portion of the Creator. The other one is the animal self. They both use the same word, and most of the...

B"H

Based on our Light Warrior Class, The Mystery of the Hebrew Letters, by Rabbi Amichai Cohen:

The letter Chaf is a bent line, a shape that curves inward to...

A gentle guided meditation on the letter Yud, the smallest letter in the Hebrew alphabet.

Find yourself in a comfortable position. Relax your shoulders. Breath...

B"H

Based on our Light Warrior Class — The Mystery of the Hebrew Letters by Rabbi Amichai Cohen:

The letter Yud is the smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet. I...

B"H

Based on Miriam's Own Your Light class:

This week we began Tanya Chapter 10, the chapter on the tzaddik, the truly righteous individual. It is one of the ...