Torah Unraveled

Demystifying Tanya - Lesson 6 With Rabbi Tzvi Freeman Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Thursday, March 27, 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 id...

You Be the Judge 2025 Lesson 2: Your Money or My Life With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 If you’re forced at gunpoint to surrender your neighbor’s property to robbers, are you liable for compensation? We examine real cases, including one stemming from the Holocaust, in which this issue had to be addressed.

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul - Part 23 “The Anatomy Of A Hug” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, March 30, 2025 Affection takes many forms—words that reassure, actions that uplift, a touch that lingers. But among them all, a hug stands apart. A hug speaks without words, heals without effort, and transcends the barriers of the mind, reaching straight into the he...

You Be the Judge 2025 Lesson 1: Finders Keepers With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 What happens when objects are abandoned for long periods of time or are unavailable due to the ravages of war? Are there circumstances under which people, against their will, can lose the right to their property?

Demystifying Tanya - Lesson 3 With Rabbi Tzvi Freeman Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Thursday, February 27, 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...

Demystifying Tanya - Lesson 5 With Rabbi Tzvi Freeman Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Thursday, March 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 id...

Demystifying Tanya - Lesson 4 With Rabbi Tzvi Freeman Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Thursday, March 6, 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 ide...

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul - Part 21 "The Man Who Tasted Every Sin" With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, March 16, 2025 Elazar was a man consumed by excess, a relentless seeker of pleasure who bowed to no law but desire. No indulgence was too extreme, no temptation too forbidden—he lived only for himself, reveling in a world without limits. But then—at the heig...

Torah Studies 5785 Class 20: Parshat Vayakhel Rules of Engagement: When Religion Sparks Spirituality With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Tuesday, March 18, 2025 Does religion stifle spirituality? This lesson explores the balance between discipline and Divine inspiration through Rashi’s take on the Mishkan’s construction and its profound link to Shabbos.

Torah Studies 5785 Class 19: Purim Achashveirosh's Feast: Inside The Party That Changed History With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Tuesday, March 11, 2025 My Religion, My Choice Balancing Autonomy and Faith in a World of Endless Choices In a world of limitless choices, is religion a restriction or a liberation? By diving into the Purim story, this lesson uncovers how i...

What Is? Rethinking Everything we Know About Our Universe Lesson 6: Are We Bound by Fate? With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Wednesday, March 11, 2025 If G-d already knows what we will do tomorrow, is our “free choice” nothing more than an illusion? And with so many powerful influences outside of our control—or even our awareness—influencing our choices, how “free” cou...

Torah Studies 5785 Class 18: Parshat Tetzaveh Farbrengens: Where Heaven Meets Earth Discovering the Spiritual Magic of Chasidic Gatherings With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 Step into the world of the Chasidic farbrengen—a warm, transformative gathering that echoes the sacred connections of the Tent of Meeting. Learn how these vibrant, heartfelt...

Decoding the Talmud - Lesson 6 The Talmud Until Today: Talmudic Literature and Fifteen Centuries of Constant Study With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 See how and why the Talmud became the core of Jewish law and discover the vast literature of responsa, legal codes, and commentaries that continue the conversation until today.

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul - Part 17 “Soul Mission” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, February 9, 2025 One of the deepest Kabbalistic mysteries is the one closest to home: Why does G-d send a pure, radiant soul from the heights of divine perfection into a world of darkness and struggle? The question becomes even more profound when we grasp the soul’s true es...

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul - Part 18 “Heaven Stands, You Climb” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, February 16, 2025 Heavenly beings are often seen as superior to their earthly counterparts—pure, untethered by materialism, and free from the weight of the mundane. Meanwhile, we grapple with struggle and imperfection. And yet, scripture calls angels and celesti...

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul - Part 19 “Why Angels Have Wings” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, February 23, 2025 Birds have wings. Insects have wings. Airplanes have wings. Wings make flight possible. But there’s another kind of being described with wings—angels. Why do angels have wings? What are they for? And if angels are spiritual beings without physical...

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul - Part 20 "Epiphanies On Demand" With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, March 2, 2025 There are moments in life—big, dramatic, earth-shaking moments—when everything snaps into focus. Suddenly, we see our priorities with crystal clarity. Maybe it’s the birth of a child, the loss of a loved one, or a major shift in career or relationships...

What Is? Rethinking Everything we Know About Our Universe Lesson 5: What is Consciousness? With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Wednesday, March 4, 2025 All injustice and strife, and even personal unhappiness, can be traced to selfishness. Yet self-esteem is essential for a healthy psyche and a productive life. To navigate this paradox, we first need to unravel the myste...

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul - Part 1 “Who Are You?” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, September 29, 2024 Our soul is the essence of who we are. It is our core, our spirit, our true motivator and driving force. Yet, as much as we know about the existence of our soul, many of us do not truly know what our soul is made of. Our new Kabbalah Cafe series, "Know You...

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul - Part 4 “Critical Care” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, October 20, 2024 The sefirah of gevurah gets a bad rap. Everybody loves chesed -- it's kind, generous, giving, loving. But gevurah? Too strict, too demanding, too judgy. The funny thing is, Kabbalah teaches that gevurah holds the greatest power. In fact, the very word gevur...

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul - Part 10 “Alignment” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, December 8, 2024 Before the beginning, there was chaos. Chaos marked by destruction. Where light and vessel collided, and all that remained were shards of spirituality embedded in the substructure of creation. We are the beings tasked with mopping up this primordial collapse....

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul - Part 11 “Reality Reversed” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, December 15, 2024 It’s easy to believe that our reality is shaped by Divine mechanics. After all, this is the basic law of spiritual gravity: what is below has descended from forces above. In this view, we are at the tail end of a complex spiritual ecosystem that pulls...

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul - Part 12 “How to Be Holy: A Guide for Humans” With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, January 5, 2025 Few things are as obscure and ambiguous as holiness. The dictionary defines holy as "dedicated or consecrated to G-d or a religious purpose." But what does it mean to be dedicated or consecrated to G-d? Is that a decision? A feeling? An...

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul - Part 13 "Spiritual SuperFood" With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, January 12, 2025 Did you know that fine wine makes you clever? Or that a good steak makes your mind sharper? This advice comes from the Talmud. And if it sounds a bit curious, not to worry: the Jewish mystics explain exactly how this all works. See, food is not just...

Kabbalah Café Know Your Soul – Part 14 "More Than Life Itself" With Rabbi Ari Sollish Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, January 19, 2025 Is it possible to love someone or something more than life itself? The premise of that statement is that there is a form of love that is so strong that it can even surpass the love of one's own self. But if love is predicated on selfhood –– "I love...