Torah Unraveled

Garments of the Soul - Part 12 “Reinvent Yourself” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, September 3, 2023 Reinventing yourself and chasing personal growth? That's like hitting refresh on your life, helping you discover more about yourself and adapting to new things. It's about breaking free from those old ruts, becoming better versions of yourself, and improving...

The Hebrew Course Lesson 4: The Vowels, Part 2 With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Thursday, August 31, 2023 Whether you never learned how to read Hebrew, or your Hebrew reading is a bit rusty, this course is for you! In just five easy to follow lessons you will become fluent in reading the Holy Tongue. This is the perfect chance to gain the skills to be able to open up...

Women's Rosh Hashanah Class "Your Needs Are Holy: Understanding Prayer" With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Tuesday, August 29, 2023 This text-based class on Likkutei Sichos, vol. 19, Rosh Hashanah - Vov Tishrei, explores deeper themes of prayer and our relationship with G-d, clarifying why we ask for personal needs while we stand before G-d.

A Historic Evening with Esther Basch The Honey Girl of Auschwitz An Inspiring Story of Hope, Courage, Love, and Forgiveness Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Monday, August 21, 2023 Seventy-eight years since the liberation of Auschwitz, there are not very many voices that can share the story of the Holocaust with our generation. Witness history as 95-year-old Esther Basch, nicknamed “The Ho...

Money Matters - Lesson 3 State of the Union: The Right to Organize, Bargain Collectively, and Strike With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Wednesday, August 30, 2023 The controversy over union rights is recurrently strewn across U.S. headlines. What does Jewish law have to say about whether workers should have the right to unionize and bargain collectively? And does it ma...

Sunday Kolel Year 2 - Lecture 4 "Can't Touch This? A Deep Dive Inside the Laws of Muktza" With Rabbi Sruli Klaristenfeld Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on August 27, 2023

Sunday Kolel & Kinus Torah Year 2 - Lecture 3 "Your Practical How-To Guide to Tevilas Keilim" With Rabbi Mendy Wineberg Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on August 20, 2023

Sunday Kolel & Kinus Torah Year 2 - Lecture 2 "Why Dip Pots?: The Rationale of Tevilas Keilim" With Hatomim Shraga Charytan Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on August 20, 2023

Sunday Kolel & Kinus Torah Year 2 - Lecture 1 "Staying Grounded: The Laws of Orla" With Hatomim Mendel Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on August 20, 2023

Money Matters - Lesson 2 Morally Bankrupt: The Ethics of Debt Discharge With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Wednesday, August 23, 2023 In times of old, when a debtor was not able to repay his debts, he was sold as a slave or thrown into prison. Today, we have bankruptcy laws that protect individuals from this fate. But is it ethical to borrow without repaying? If someon...

Talmudic Ethics - Lesson 6 Penny for Your Thoughts With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded at The Torah Center ATL on Monday, August 21, 2023 Both Jewish and secular legal systems have rules outlawing unfair competition, or "encroaching on another's boundaries." In the modern world, the boundaries of these rules are tested by considering the degree to which ones thoughts are protected. Can one own an idea...

Garments of the Soul - Part 11 “Love 2.0” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, August 27, 2023 Love is complicated. Sometimes, it might not be easy to know when love is actually love, because it's hard to separate your feelings about the other from your feelings about yourself. Do you love the other -- or do you love the way they make you feel? Those are two very...

Garments of the Soul - Part 10 “Mystic Therapy” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, August 20, 2023 It is a foundational teaching of Kabbalah that we have control over our thoughts. Unlike the belief that human beings are victims of their subconsciousness, Jewish mysticism declares that we have the ability to be in control of our own cognition. This means that d...

Garments of the Soul - Part 9 “Kabbalah Couture” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, August 13, 2023 Human beings have been wearing clothes ever since Adam got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. And though the purpose of clothing seems obvious, the mystics reveal a deeper side to human attire. See, clothes serve a dual function. They simultaneously hide and...

The Hebrew Course Lesson 3: The Vowels, Part 1 With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Thursday, August 24, 2023 Whether you never learned how to read Hebrew, or your Hebrew reading is a bit rusty, this course is for you! In just five easy to follow lessons you will become fluent in reading the Holy Tongue. This is the perfect chance to gain the skills to be able to open up...

The Hebrew Course Lesson 2: The Letters, Part 2 With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Thursday, August 17, 2023 Whether you never learned how to read Hebrew, or your Hebrew reading is a bit rusty, this course is for you! In just five easy to follow lessons you will become fluent in reading the Holy Tongue. This is the perfect chance to gain the skills to be able to open u...

The Hebrew Course Lesson 1: The Letters, Part 1 With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Thursday, August 10, 2023 Whether you never learned how to read Hebrew, or your Hebrew reading is a bit rusty, this course is for you! In just five easy to follow lessons you will become fluent in reading the Holy Tongue. This is the perfect chance to gain the skills to be able to open u...

Money Matters - Lesson 1 Hot Tips: The Ethics of Insider Trading With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Wednesday, August 16, 2023 Information is a valuable commodity -- this fact has been made clear by recent stories of high-profile prosecutions on insider trading charges. But is it fair to require companies to make information readily available to people who did not expe...

Talmudic Ethics - Lesson 5 The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded at The Torah Center ATL on Monday, August 14, 2023 When truth and justice conflict, which value takes primacy? May a lawyer lie or withhold knowledge in order to ensure a just outcome? Must one trust that the system will ensure an appropriate outcome, or is it the responsibility of thos...

Talmudic Ethics - Lesson 4 Words That Wound With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded at The Torah Center ATL on Monday, August 7, 2023 What happens when a playwright portrays a public figure in a negative light? Can the playwright be sued for slander and character defamation? Is there special protection accorded artists so that they may be free to create? Are their artistic statements held to different sta...

Garments of the Soul - Part 8 “Mystic Therapy” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, August 6, 2023 Once, in the late 1700s, a young boy asked his sagely grandfather: "What is the purpose of mystical study?" His grandfather, who was a leading Kabbalist, replied: "The entire purpose of Jewish mysticism is to transform the nature of a person's character." Each perso...

Women's 9 Days Class "Secrets of the Lost Ark: Lessons in Loss, Resilience & Rebuilding" With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Monday, July 24, 2023 This text-based class on Likkutei Sichos, vol. 21, Parshas Terumah, explains where the Ark is hidden today and the powerful lessons this teaches us about loss, resilience, and rebuilding.

Talmudic Ethics - Lesson 3 The Right to Life With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded at The Torah Center ATL on Monday, July 31, 2023 A woman must decide whether to abort a fetus so that she can provide a marrow transplant for her dying sister. How can we balance the interests of the yet unborn fetus with the interests of those who have already entered this life?

Garments of the Soul - Part 7 “Studying With the Angels” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, July 30, 2023 There's an old adage that says, "Torah speaks to the terrestrial realm, and alludes to the celestial realm." Which means that while Torah guides us in very real and practical terms, it also contains lofty spiritual messages. But there's another version of t...

Semichas Chaver Chabad Laws of Synagogue & Prayer - Part 10 With Rabbi Mendy Wineberg Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on July 18, 2023 Semichas Chaver Chabad is a yeshiva-style program designed for participants to learn the most important halachic topics in-depth, starting with the Talmud and continuing with the Code of Jewish Law and contemporary halachic experts. Each topic is treated comp...