Torah Unraveled

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul – Part 15 "The Day Tragedy Struck" With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, January 26, 2025 It was the moment an entire nation had been waiting for. The moment that embodied, in every way, the hopes and dreams of a people that had worked so hard to make it a reality. This was going to be the day they found acceptance from Above, the day...

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul - Part 16 "Breakthrough" With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, February 2, 2025 There are times in life when everything flows smoothly. When our health, finances, and family life are stable and secure. When life feels good. And then there are moments when everything seems to fall apart. We fight, we beg, we plead, we ask why -- but som...

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul - Part 2 “Snow White & The Seven Sins” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, October 6, 2024 Snow White may tell the tale of a wicked queen driven by vanity and jealousy, but Kabbalah spins another drama altogether. In Kabbalah, "snow white" is a reference to Divine chesed (kindness), one of the original energies that spawned creation....

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul - Part 3 “Kelipah, Kelipah Everywhere!” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, October 13, 2024 Reality, say the mystics, is divided into three categories: the good, the bad, and the neutral. These latter two realms are called "kelipah." What, exactly is kelipah? Why does it contain two dimensions? And what should our approach be when e...

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul - Part 5 “How to Cure Spiritual Apathy” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, October 27, 2024 We've all experienced moments when our heart has felt like stone -- unmoved, uninspired. Times when we knew we should feel something, times when we even felt we should feel something, but we still didn't. Because despite our best intentions a...

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul - Part 6 “Break In Case of Emergency” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, November 3, 2024 The mystics reveal what lies under the hood of the human being. Inside the body lies the soul. Inside the soul lies ten soul powers. And inside the ten soul powers lies the "ahava mesuteres" -- the core energy and light of the soul. Ahava mesut...

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul - Part 7 “The G-d Particle” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, November 10, 2024 The G-d particle is real. No, I'm not talking about the Higgs boson -- that's a completely different class. :) What I'm talking about is the actual G-d particle, the "piece" of G-d that supports and sustains all of existence, without which nothing would...

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul - Part 8 “Eternal Life” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, November 17, 2024 In the beginning, human beings were designed to live forever. G-d told Adam that he would live eternally, unless he did one crazy and reckless thing -- eating from the Tree of Knowledge. We know how the story ended: Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, and...

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul - Part 9 “The Soul of Desire” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, November 24, 2024 In exploring the contours of the soul, Kabbalah teaches that there are several tiers of soul powers. Some powers are functional, some are emotional, and some are intellectual. And then, towering above the cognitive faculties of the soul, lies ratzon -...

Decoding the Talmud - Lesson 5 How the Talmud Thinks: A Unique Method of Logic—and Why It Matters With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Wednesday, February 26, 2025 Understand the Babylonian Talmud’s rigorous mode of legal reasoning, how it balances dueling principles to arrive at clear legal boundaries, and how its elegant logic fuels deeper learning.

What Is? Rethinking Everything we Know About Our Universe Lesson 4: Why Does Evil Exist? With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Wednesday, February 25, 2025 Why do bad things happen to good people? The question has been asked—and answered—for thousands of years. But even if we understood the purpose of evil, would this make it more palatable and acceptable? Would it aid us...

Torah Studies 5785 Class 17: Parshat Terumah A Tree of Hope Grows in the Desert There’s Tangible Promise for a Better Tomorrow With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Tuesday, February 25, 2025 From acacia wood in the wilderness to the sparks of holiness within us, this lesson uncovers G d’s timeless signs of redemption. Discover how Jacob’s foresight and Rashi’s wisdom ins...

Demystifying Tanya - Lesson 2 With Rabbi Tzvi Freeman Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Thursday, February 20, 2025 The Tanya is a cornerstone of Jewish spirituality, offering profound insights into the nature of the soul, the struggles of human existence, and the path to a purposeful life. In this new weekly series, Rabbi Tzvi Freeman provides a clear and thoughtful exploration of its core...

Decoding the Talmud - Lesson 4 To Create the Talmud: How the Sages Shaped Its Structure and Substance With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Wednesday, February 19, 2025 Meet the pivotal sages in the Talmud’s story—from Rav and Shmuel’s first academies to Rav Ashi and Ravina’s final text—and see how they wove in stories as well as ethical and philosophical teachings.

Demystifying Tanya - Lesson 1 With Rabbi Tzvi Freeman Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Thursday, February 13, 2025 The Tanya is a cornerstone of Jewish spirituality, offering profound insights into the nature of the soul, the struggles of human existence, and the path to a purposeful life. In this new weekly series, Rabbi Tzvi Freeman provides a clear and thoughtful exploration of its core...

What Is? Rethinking Everything we Know About Our Universe Lesson 3: Who is G-d? With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Wednesday, February 18, 2025 What are we talking about when we talk about G-d? Is “G-d” just a word we use when we can’t explain something? If G-d cannot be explained or described, does this not render the concept of “belief in G-d” completely meaningless?

What Is? Rethinking Everything we Know About Our Universe Lesson 2: Is Time Travel Possible? With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Wednesday, February 11, 2025 Is time the engine that drives the whole of existence, or is it just a product of our subjective experience? If the future is impenetrable, the past irretrievable, and the present moment too fleeting to meaningfull...

What Is? Rethinking Everything we Know About Our Universe Lesson 1: Is the World Real? With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Wednesday, February 4, 2025 Everything that we experience, we experience inside our heads, leading to the intriguing question: Maybe there is no existence outside of our minds? But perhaps a more fundamental question would be: What practical differe...

Torah Studies 5785 Class 16: Parshat Mishpatim Laws or Love? Finding G-d at Sinai Turning Law Into Love and Duty Into Connection With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Tuesday, February 18, 2025 Is Judaism just a rulebook, or is it something deeper? This class explores the dual layers of the Mount Sinai experience—G-d’s laws as a manual for life, and the covenant as a bond...

Torah Studies 5785 Class 15: Parshat Yitro Love Me, Love Me Not? Exploring G-d’s Love and Our Limitless Potential With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Tuesday, February 11, 2025 Is G-d’s love dependent on our actions? Using Rashi’s commentary on the Ten Commandments, this lesson unveils a relationship defined by unconditional love and infinite potential, even in moments...

Decoding the Talmud - Lesson 3 Decrypting the Mishnah: How the Sages Studied, Debated, and Understood the Mishnah With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Wednesday, February 12, 2025 Discover the tools, methods, and principles the sages employed in the centuries-long effort to unpack the Mishnah’s full practical implications.

Torah Studies 5785 Class 14: Parshat Beshalach Prayer, a Jewish Love Language Why Jews Pray Even When They Don’t Have To With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Tuesday, February 4, 2025 At the shores of the Red Sea, the Jewish people prayed—not out of fear, but because prayer is what Jews do. Explore the profound idea that prayer isn’t just a plea for help: it’s an intrins...

Decoding the Talmud - Lesson 2 The Mishnah: The Origins, Authors, and Contents of Judaism’s First Legal Code With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 See how Jewish law shifted from oral tradition to written code and encounter the Mishnah’s precise style, tight structure, and tolerance for debate—and its spiritual significance in Jewish life.

Sunday Kolel "Jewish Castle Law: Home & Community Defense in Halacha" With Rabbi Elisha Pearl Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, February 2, 2025

Sunday Kolel "Laws of Chanukah: Illuminated" With Rabbi Doron Podlashuk Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, December 15, 2024