Yesod Blocks: Foundational Torah

Sexual desire, confusion and issues are all over our culture, media and personal lives. The goal of this show is to clarify these issues, clean up the confusion and help us live this area in alignment with truth and divine integrity.

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The Daily Halakha and Kabbalah podcast returns with this new episode about the centrality of wanting/yearning/desire in the process of Tefilla/Alignment. To listen to these episodes on a daily basis, visit www.yesodblocks.com, subscribe, and download our brand new App from the Apple or Google App stores.

On Shabbat, we walk the knife's edge between the restrictions of Halakha designed to pull us out of our fixation on our creativity and the spiritual expansion derived from pleasurable experiences.  Shulhan Arukh Orah Hayim 253:2.

Balancing the different aspects of any given situation involves seeing its complexity, breaking that complexity into its granular components and then assessing the parts and whole. Shulhan Arukh Orah Hayim 53:17

Partial perspectives, distorted opinions - these are more accurate descriptions for the concept of "politics." A group tefillah session, today called "minyan," has a structure to it, and when we understand the role of distortions in that structure, both positive and negative, this tool can become far more activated. Shulhan Arukh Orah Hayim 53:4.

The consciousness-level dynamic of Shabbat is profound and delicate. Developing the awareness of this dynamic is key to truly seeing melakha for what it is, and how to use it intentionally, and in healthy ways.

On Shabbat, we walk the edge, operating in the  space between stopping and being. Learning to access our inner states of being, to access Hashem, in the space created by emerging from our Melakha funnels, is the key to unfurling the Neshama into higher form.

Tefilla is an internal process of alignment. We have different tools we can use to activate the process of aligning ourselves with Hashem. The Siddur is the most known tool, but the physical actions we engage in during Tefilla are also part of the toolkit at our disposal. Understanding their impact and structure allow us to take our Tefilla from something habituated to something intentional, somet...

In this episode, we begin moving into the next layer of existence explored in the system of Tefilla. Olam HaYetzira is the layer of "form" in which raw materials reflect intention and conviction. 

Embodied Torah Part 3 is out! In this episode, Ariella and I discuss the concept of alignment, exploring how it pervades Torah and our living. The word "tefilla" actually means "alignment," but this is even deeper than it sounds. The stack of elements that the Torah calls the "tzelem elokim" (image of God), comprising the various tools (including our bodies) we use to manifest ourselves into the p...

In this Erev Shabbos episode, we explore the balance of pulling back from melakha (the application of consciousness to the physical world in order to create higher order and organization in a permanent way) while still having some involvement with it on Shabbos. Often, because of the Etz HaDa'at ( the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil), we think in polarities, imagining that melakha is bad on Sha...