The Live Kabbalah Podcast- Daily Wisdom, Deep Conversations, Inner Transformation

Greetings and blessings for the new month of Av, which literally means father, and carries the energy of Leo, the lion. The Midrash says a lion came on the month of the lion and destroyed the lion, so that the Lion, G-d, can come back and build the lion. Nebuchadnezzar, the great lion, destroys the Beit HaMikdash, called Ariel, the crouching lion, so that Hashem, "Ariel sha'ag, mi lo yira," will r...

A short teaching for the Hillula of the Ramak, Rabbi Moshe Cordovero, one of the great masters of Tzfat. We look at his life, the Pardes Rimonim and the Tomer Devorah, his teaching that the secret of enlightenment lives in one word, Shema, and the meaning of his passing on the 23rd of Tammuz, during these Three Weeks. Read more: https://www.livekabbalah.com/blog/The-Ramak

The letter Kaf is the vessel that curves inward to make room. In this teaching from our Exploring Oneness and Meditation series, Rabbi Amichai Cohen follows the Kaf from Binah, the understanding that builds, down into the palm of the hand that receives in order to give. This is EOM 105 in the Mystery of the Hebrew Letters. Join the community: The Live Kabbalah Community Walk through the letters on...

Why did God create the world? In this episode, Miriam teaches three profound answers from Kabbalistic tradition, each one a different window into the mystery of existence. Drawing from the Alter Rebbe, the AriZal, and the Tanya, she explores: 1. The nature of good is to do good. God's very essence is boundless goodness, and goodness must give. Creation is the ultimate act of generosity. 2. To...

A portion of this week's Live Kabbalah class with Rabbi Amichai Cohen on the letter Yud — the smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and yet the single point from which every other letter begins. We explore the Yud as the place where the infinite first touches the finite, the scribe's first stroke and the white parchment beneath the black letters, the flash of Chochmah that arrives from nothingne...

This is a portion of Miriam's weekly Own Your Light class. The full class continues inside Live Kabbalah. In this teaching we begin Tanya Chapter 10 and enter the idea of the tzaddik, the truly righteous individual. We explore how fear can become trust and reactivity can become passion, the difference between the incomplete and the complete tzaddik, and the reminder that each of us carries a point...

This is a portion of our weekly Live Kabbalah class, continuing our journey through the Hebrew letters with the letter Tet (ט) — the gate of gestation, of trust, and of becoming. Tet is the letter of tov, of goodness, and it carries the hidden light (the ohr haganuz): the reminder that what is good is often quietly ripening, concealed, before it is ever revealed. We explore the shape and meaning o...

This is a portion of Miriam's weekly Own Your Light class — the opening teaching from our continued study of Chapter 9 of the Tanya. The full class continues inside Live Kabbalah. In this teaching, Miriam explores the two forces within each of us — the divine soul and the animal soul — and the two honest ways the Tanya gives us to work with our shadow side: iscafia, a healthy kind of subduing, and...

This teaching is a portion of our weekly Light Warrior Circle class at Live Kabbalah, part of the ongoing series on the Mystery of the Hebrew Letters. Here we open the eighth gate of the Hebrew alphabet, the letter Chet. Its name carries cheit, to miss the mark, and yet the very same letter begins chaim, life. We explore the polarity built into each of us, the shape of the Chet as both an opening...

A short Torah teaching for Parshat Beha’alotcha based on the Ba’al Shem Tov’s inner explanation of the trumpet blast called Teruah, תרועה. In the parsha, the trumpets are used to gather the people, guide their journeys, and awaken Divine remembrance. The Ba’al Shem Tov reveals that Teruah is not only an external sound. It is an inner call that breaks through distraction, gathers the scattered part...

On Shavuot, we celebrate the giving of the Torah — but the Talmud tells us that the angels objected. They wanted the Torah to remain in Heaven, in its pure spiritual state. In this class, Rabbi Amichai Cohen explores the deeper meaning of Moshe’s response to the angels and why the Torah was given specifically to human beings. Angels are holy, but they do not struggle in the same way we do. They do...

Every year on the holiday of Shavuot, we receive the Torah anew. A new light enters the world, and a new channel opens in our relationship with the Divine and with ourselves. So often, we carry subconscious beliefs about G-d and Torah that are rooted in fear. Yet at the giving of the Torah, G-d first spoke to the women — with softness and tenderness. Shavuot is an invitation to open our minds, hea...

In this class from Tanya, we explore the inner power hidden inside everyday life. Nothing is random— every moment carries the potential to reveal or conceal the oneness of G-d in the world. We learn how even the most physical parts of life can become elevated when connected to intention, And even when we fall into distraction or self-focus, we discover that nothing is ever truly lost — everything...

The book of Bamidbar opens with a census. The third counting of the Israelites within a year. G-d already knows the number, so what is the counting for? Sefer Yetzirah asks the question that runs through these days. "Before one, what do you count?" We count forty-nine days of the Omer. The Torah tells us to count fifty. Which is it? In this teaching, we explore two accounts happening at...

Each week carries its own energy, its own map. This week, we cross into Parshat Bamidbar. Bamidbar means desert. A place where nothing grows. And yet the same word holds the root of daber, speech. The Torah is teaching us that the deepest speech rises from a vessel that is empty. We are inside the Yesod week of the Omer, moving from Tiferet sheb'Yesod toward the union of Yesod and Malchut, the mas...

This week we live with Parshat Behar-Bechukotai, and the theme that runs through both is bitachon, trust. Arguably, the hardest trait to truly acquire. Behar opens with Shmita and Yovel, in which we stop work and let the land rest. The Bat Ayin teaches that the holiness of the land comes before the labor, not after. Trust comes first. Then comes the quiet jewel of the parsha. Inside the letters of...

Tanya Chapter 48 opens one of the deepest questions in Kabbalah. If the Creator is Ein Sof, truly infinite, how does a finite world come into being? In this episode we walk through the Alter Rebbe's teaching on Tzimtzum, the condensation that allows infinite light to clothe itself inside creation. We look at why even the highest spiritual worlds are still considered limited, why a dollar and a...

What is really happening when we pray? The Zohar reveals that tefillah is not words rising into empty air — it’s a yichud, a sacred union between the Shekhinah and her Beloved, drawn upward through our lips. A Kabbalistic teaching on prayer, intimacy with the Divine, and the hidden architecture of Shacharit, Mincha, and Maariv. In this teaching, we open a passage from the Zohar where Rabbi Shimon...

The tzaddik feels the fire when he does a mitzvah. Most of us don't. Tanya tells us why that's okay — and why the unification happens anyway. We're picking up from yesterday's teaching about the reciprocal love between Hashem and the Jewish people — how God descended from His glory to take us out of Egypt, and how that closeness now gets activated through our Torah, our learning, o...

In today’s Tanya, we explore the deeper meaning of the blessing: “Who has sanctified us with His commandments.” The Alter Rebbe reveals that mitzvot are not only holy actions. They create a real union between the soul and the Ein Sof, the Infinite Light of G-d. Just as marriage creates a sacred bond between husband and wife, Torah and mitzvot bind the Jewish soul to its divine source. Even when a...

In Tanya Chapter 46, the Alter Rebbe teaches a powerful path to awakening the hidden love within the soul: reflecting on the immense love that G-d has already shown us. Just as water reflects a face back to the person looking into it, the heart naturally responds to love with love. When we contemplate how Hashem descended beyond all worlds, angels, and spiritual chambers to take us out of Egypt Hi...

In Chapter 45 of Tanya, the Alter Rebbe opens a different gateway into love of Hashem — not through contemplation of G-d’s greatness, but through rachamim rabim, great mercy, awakened toward the Divine spark within our own soul and within every Jew. We explore why this path is especially suited to our generation: when the soul feels distant, contracted, or trapped in the exile of daily consciousne...

In today’s Tanya, we explore two innate levels of love that already live within every Jewish soul. One is the soul’s natural yearning to return to its Divine source, and the other is the deep love of a child for a parent. These loves are essential to who we are, part of our spiritual nature from the very beginning. From there, Tanya takes us into a deeper dimension: the love that is born through h...

In this teaching, we explore the deeper meaning of holiness through the lens of unity and wholeness. Through textual study of the Zohar, we examine how tefillin and talit are not only mitzvot but also crowns of divine consciousness that help a person become inwardly aligned, sanctified, and whole. We then move into the deeper mystery of what it means to be called “one” within ourselves, in our rel...

The letter Bet — ב — is the very first letter of the Torah, and it means one thing: home. In this meditation, Kabbalistic teacher Ami Cohen guides you into the architecture of the Bet: a floor, a wall, a roof, and one open side — a structure waiting for you to choose what enters. Through breath and ancient teaching, we discover the dot at the heart of the letter — the divine point of Baruch, bless...