Torah Unraveled

"Live Free or Die” Is What G-d Wants The Watershed Moment When Truly Choosing G-d Was Born With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Tuesday, June 25, 2024 It would seem that it’s a binary choice: doing what I want, or doing what G-d wants. But G-d’s ambivalent reply to the Jew’s request to send spies teaches us that if we work hard enough, we can get the best of both worlds.

Oneness in Creation - Part 2 “Documentary Hypothesis” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, June 23, 2024 In a far away land, not too long ago, some scholars gathered and came up with a new theory. The theory was that the bible was not authored by a Single, Divine Authority, but was rather the product of a number of mortal authors, whose disparate work was subsequ...

Oneness in Creation - Part 1 “The Journey Begins” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, June 16, 2024 Nearly 100 years ago, a Kabbalistic text was penned that revealed the mystical meaning of the most famous Jewish prayer: the Shema. The Shema is featured in our mezuzot and tefillin scrolls. It's the first prayer we learn to recite as children, and the last we utt...

There’s No Such Thing as an Antisemite They Really Hate G-d, Not Us With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Tuesday, June 18, 2024 Antisemitism is the world’s oldest and strangest form of hate. No matter the reason or circumstance, people just can’t stop hating the Jews. It turns out that it’s really G-d they hate. And if that’s the case, we’d do well to trust in G-d and re...

The Kabbalah of Cheeseburgers Shavuot Class With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, June 9, 2024 Food is such an integral part of Jewish life. Every simcha celebration, every lifecycle event, every Jewish holiday, every Shabbat, is punctuated with a lavish feast. But while the menu for holiday and Shabbat meals typically consists of meat or chicken, on Shavuot we tr...

Spiritual Surrender - Part 26 “The Four Worlds” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, June 2, 2024 The mystics teach us the secrets of creation. One of those secrets is the fact that we are not alone; there are other worlds, many other worlds, beyond ours. Although the worlds are vast and numerous, Kabbalah reveals the details about four primary worlds. These form...

The Most Precious Thing in the World Every Moment of Torah Study Is an Infinite Opportunity. Literally. With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Tuesday, June 4, 2024 Is the Torah just a really nice moral code? A great history book? A book of laws? Can it, or will it, ever change? Discover the true value of our people’s defining book.

Decisions of Fate - Lesson 4 A Body’s Dignity With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Wednesday, June 5, 2024 Might autopsy violate the dignity of the human body? Learn the Jewish view on the respect to which the deceased is entitled and how the sanctity of human life continues after death.

Decisions of Fate - Lesson 3 Pregnancy Questions With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Wednesday, May 29, 2024 Explore questions of pregnancy through the lens of Jewish texts. Is a fetus a human life or a part of the mother’s body? When pregnancy endangers a woman’s life, may she, in good conscience, carry the pregnancy to term?

Sunday Kolel & Kinus Torah Year 2 - Lecture 29 "Organ Donation in Jewish Law" With Rabbi Doron Silverman Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, May 19, 2024

Sunday Kolel & Kinus Torah Year 2 - Lecture 28 "The Law of the Spirit: Scotch, Sherry Casks & Bourbon in Halacha" With Rabbi Yaakov Zehnwirth Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, May 12, 2024

Sunday Kolel & Kinus Torah Year 2 - Lecture 27 "Immersive Torah Study" With Hatomim Levi Charytan Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on May 5, 2024

Sunday Kolel & Kinus Torah Year 2 - Lecture 26 "Is an Early Seder Kosher?" With Rabbi Levi Chitrik Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on May 5, 2024

Sunday Kolel & Kinus Torah Year 2 - Lecture 25 "The Impact of a Mitzvah" With Hatomim Mendel Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on May 5, 2024

Sunday Kolel & Kinus Torah Year 2 - Lecture 24 "Make Your Days Count: The Spirit of Sefirat Ha'Omer" With Rabbi Yossi New Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on May 5, 2024

Sunday Kolel & Kinus Torah Year 2 - Lecture 23 "The Death of Aaron's Sons" With Hatomim Nosson Gurary Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on May 5, 2024

Gratitude Is Good for You Saying “Thank You” Isn’t Just about Doing the Right Thing With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Tuesday, May 28, 2024 The benefits of feeling and expressing gratitude are well explored. A somewhat obscure law about dedicating fields to the Temple brings us to a surprising perk: expressing gratitude can bring tangible goodness into your life.

Spiritual Surrender - Part 25 “The Mystic in the Cave” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, May 26, 2024 Lag Ba'Omer, the 33rd day of the counting of the Omer, is a day of celebration honoring the life and legacy of the great tzaddik Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.  Rabbi Shimon lived in Israel close to 1900 years ago. For thirteen years he was forced to hide in a cave...

Decisions of Fate - Lesson 2 Extending Life With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Wednesday, May 22, 2024 How does Judaism balance the desire to preserve life with concerns of reducing suffering? See how Jewish values inform a dignified approach to end-of-life care and advance medical directives.

You’re Never Alone A Unique Solution to a Dreadful Societal Problem With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on May 21, 2024 Even in the age of connectivity and the proliferation of something called “social media,” people have never been more lonely. A niche law in the Torah’s treatment of a servant provides a poignant companion to anyone at any time: G-d Himself.

Spiritual Surrender - Part 24 “The Kabbalah of Israel” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, May 12, 2024 No other land on earth is as fiercely contested as Israel. This small footprint of land measuring roughly 9,000 square miles has been the subject of countless wars and at the center of millennia of conflict. What is it about Israel that makes it so desired and...

A Jew Is a Jew, Is a Jew, Is a Jew Appreciating the Untouchable Preciousness of Every Jew With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on May 14, 2024 The Four Species we shake on the Sukkot holiday famously represent four different types of Jews. From the way the Torah describes each plant, we learn a valuable lesson about the immutable value of every Jew -- regardless of what the...

Decisions of Fate - Lesson 1 Experimental Treatments With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Wednesday, May 15, 2024 When emerging treatments offer hope of recovery, when is the risk justified? Discover the Jewish ethics of risking your life in the hope of extending your long-term prospects.

Prosaic Holiness Your Most Distant and Unholy Moment Is G-d’s Greatest Opportunity With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on May 7, 2024 The reality of life for so many is a series of banal, mundane, and oftentimes downright unholy moments. What are we supposed to make of this frustrating situation? A lesson from the lifespan of a fruit in Jewish law teaches us that G-d is be...

Spiritual Surrender - Part 23 “The Invisible Man” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, May 5, 2024 There was once a man who felt invisible. His own brothers didn't see him -- at least, not the real him. When he tried to share his deepest fears and dreams, they shot him down, accusing him of all sorts of ill-intent, when all he meant was to give them a window into...