Parsha With Purpose

This week’s parsha, Ki Tavo, lays out blessings and curses- not as punishment or rewards. God isn’t punishing us, He’s showing us the natural consequences of being aligned or misaligned with our divine source. When we live connected to our intuition, life itself becomes a blessing. When we disconnect, it feels like a curse. Most importantly we talk about what it means to find your alignment.

This week we talk about fighting. The kinds of fights that we all have fought in our lives.  Not with other people, but within ourselves. Our fight for peace, love, stability. Do we really have to fight for the things we desire most, or is there another way? We talk about when to act, when to surrender, and how to trust God. And what to do when the voice of doubt inevitably comes through.

This week in Parshat Shoftim, we look at what judgment really means. Not the negative, critical, or destructive kind, but the holy power of discernment, which ultimately leads us to true inner alignment. We explore how judgment, when softened with kindness, becomes one of the most powerful tools for living in your truth.

If God is everywhere, why did we need the Beit HaMikdash? In this class I explore the deeper purpose of having a physical space of alignment, and how that teaching applies to us today. We’ll talk about our human need for guidance, being witnessed in our pain, and why no one is meant to walk their path alone. The message: choose to be seen, because healing and growth happen in connection, not isola...

The prophecy for Moshiach is given over in this week’s Torah portion. From it, we learn how to live in the energy and alignment we all want, not waiting for some future time, but starting the practice now, so we can usher in the freedom we desire. It’s about the small, steady steps, the commitment, the dedication, and the belief in what we’re working toward. Our choices matter. The Torah shifts fr...

In this episode, we explore the profound spiritual art of asking. Through the story of Moshe’s prayer to enter the Land and God’s refusal we uncover what it really means to pray, to desire, and to be told “no.” What if the unanswered prayer is not rejection, but redirection? What is the purpose of waiting? We talk about levels of desire, the feminine art of receiving, and how to hold the “no” with...

The last and final book of the Torah starts this week and is different from the rest in that it is told not just through Moshe, but by Moshe in his own words. The obvious question is: why repeat all the stories that were just told? There is a deep teaching in the way that Moshe re-tells our story that teaches us how to connect to our own stories of our lives and retell it with the perspective of p...

The first topic in this parsha is annulments, which may seem to be irrelevant to most people. However, as we delve into the conversation of promises, what they are and how we can use them, this couldn’t be further from the truth. We learn the fundamentals of manifestation, straight from the torah source, and how to use the power of our words as we co-create our lives with God in every moment that...

Pinchas, the son of Aaron commits a murder and is awarded the covenant of peace. How can evil be perceived as a blessing and deserve a reward? Is it possible to do something bad, but have pure intentions, and so it becomes good? Why do bad things happen to good people? Through this question, we learn about what good and bad is and how our perspective is a key part of this equation. The lesson we l...

As we move into the weeks that preempt us receiving the Promise Land, we encounter resistance in the form of spiritual warfare. In the story of Balak's curse transforming to perhaps the greatest prophecy of all time, we learn the practice of transformation. of extracting our light that is held within our darkness.

Learning the explanation to Parah Aduma was only that there are some things we don't understand, never sat right with me. There had to be more, and so I searched for the deep teachings in these words. Encoded in this chapter is a fundamental life lesson:  trusting the wisdom without having an understanding. This is the secret to living a Torah life. Parah Aduma teaches us the mechanism of defy...

Through the story of Korach, we learn about acceptance of what is. Our lot in life, with all its challenges and beautiful things, is tailor made for me. Highlighting our differences only highlights our sacred individual holiness. There is no such thing as a hierarchy, we each have our own path and our own light to discover. When there is a rumbling of unrest, this lesson is about looking inward in...

We talk about how the story of entering the land, wasn't a spy mission. Rather, a messenger and a indicator to our ever evolving relationship with God. In building trust and faith and oneness. We explore this in our own individual journeys, as a nation and as a world as we enter into the era of Mashiach and the active path we are in right now in coming home to our Land.

This Parsha is all about moving inward towards our purpose, toward our inner light and toward our own path and journey through life an to healing. Its an invitation to step into our roles, receive second chances, take one aligned step at a time and travel both ourselves and together toward our individual and collective goal of freedom, redemption and connection to the shechina. 

We cover the topic of Nazir and Sotah- Seemingly irrelevant to me and you today, and learn how the practice and the teaching are incredibly relevant and speak directly to me as a woman in a relationship with God. We talk about the illusions of safety that we cling to and the lesson of building trust within ourselves and within our relationship with God. 

The theme this week is connected to numbers, to discovering our individual identities, actualizing ourselves to our greatest potential and the ways in which every single one of us impacts one another. Recognizing the need we each have for one another individually and collectively, as we enter into the Chag of Shavuos, a time when we all agreed to this path as one. 

From the cycles of Shmita, we learn the practice of rest and true surrender to gods will in receiving in a state of rest.  When we truly embody spirituality, and oneness with god, it manifests itself in physical ways and comes to us un the form of physical gifts in this world.  And the lessons we learn from both Moshe and Har Sinai are the synthesis of how to be a leader, standing in our own light...

We delve into what using our words means, how we have the gift of creation with our words and we create our own realities for better or for worse.

We delve into what it means to implement our enlightenment. The purpose of balance and our natural inborn desire and ability to live in alignment. This idea translates to every area of our lives, not just spirituality.

We discuss what it means to become impure and the journey through connection, grief and death that leads to new growth and purity. The journey is constant, ever flowing and evolving. Just like the waters that cleanse us into a state of purity.

This week we talk all about the number eight. What it signifies, and the journey to get there, transcending levels one through seven. We discuss how the 8th day, which is beyond nature, comes directly after the seventh day of rest. What that means for us today and how to call in Redemption in our lives.

This week we delve into what it means to experience joy in dedicating our lives to Torah and to God. The key to success in any commitment or accomplishment is detailed for us, right here in this Parsha.

Reclaiming the topic of Karbanot. We discus what it means for me to bring a Karbon today. We explore the journey of coming close to God and creating a loving relationship with all of the parts of ourselves. Especially the dark parts that live in the shadows, that we may desire to rid ourselves of.

They key to becoming, is the journey itself. Learn the direct original source of this fundamental belief. And the exact method for becoming a vessel for God and infinite goodness.

Weekly Parsha insights, based on the teachings of Reb Yoel Torjman Z"L. Join weekly for fundamental life lessons as we learn Torah in a way that feels connected and holy,