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Audio talks on our daily lives
(All talks about ten minutes)

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What do we ask forgiveness for?
When we look back on our lives, we find many things we wish we had done differently.  Yet ultimately everything that transpired did so according to the will of God.  So what do we need to say sorry for?
This question was asked by the great Kabbalist Rabbi Baruch Shalom Ashlag. He considers a saying of the Sages of the Talmud,
" The evil inclination would prevail over a person every day and if God does not help him he does not manage to overcome it. "
This would seem to suggest that we are not to blame for our sins. In which case what is the real sin?
In this article, Rabbi Ashlag looks at the source of our mistakes, and shows us that the real sin lies in our not asking for help from the Creator to deal with them.  We need to believe that not only God wants to  help us , but that He really can!
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Adam: from God and like God. From the teaching of Rabbi Baruch Shalom Ashlag
Becoming Adam
Every person, whether male or female, who aspires to become close to the Creator in the sense of resembling HaShem in giving unconditional love to his or her fellows or to the Creator is called by the name of Adam, from the scripture  אדמה לעליון, "I will resemble the Most High."
How can we become Adam? How can we attain the desire of becoming the best we can be?
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feeling sad, yet finding a cause to rejoice in our relationship with the Creator. From the Zohar and the Kabbalah of Rabbi Ashlag
Feeling sad , feeling happy, in our service to God
Feeling sad and feeling happy all at the same time? Conflicting emotions aren't that rare; interestingly enough the Zohar talks about them in context with the person who wants to draw closer to God again after having strayed.  How can he come close to God when he is feeling sad, when the injunction is " serve the Lord with gladness" !? Rabbi Baruch Ashlag looks at this Zohar with sympathy and depth. 

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Crocodylus niloticus in Lake Chamo 02" by Bernard Gagnon
Dealing with our inner Pharaoh
"In every generation, a man is obliged to see himself or herself, as if he is coming out of Egypt."  The coming out of Egypt, is  a present reality for each and every one of us. Each one of us has within us our own personal Egypt, our own limitations that we need help in overcoming. We need our own redemption. 
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True Unity
" the most important way, that stands before you today, is in the union of the companions. Make greater and greater efforts in this aspect, for it has within it the ability to compensate for all lacks. Rabbi Ashlag Igeret Parshat shemot 5685 Warsaw.
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Returning to our Source: Teshuvah
The soul's origin is God. To return, to do the work of teshuvah, is to return to our origin;This opportunity is a gift of the Creator to all of creation. From the teachings of Rabbi Kook and Rabbi Baruch Shalom Ashlag.
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Love of friends gives us unity, from the teachings of Rabbi Ashlag
Called to Prayer
Prayer is our connection with our Source. Yet there are many sad and broken people in the world who yet do not call out to the Divine for help. Rabbi Ashlag teaches us that the very turning to God constitutes a Divine call to us. Zohar
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Inner meaning of slavery and redemption
Our inner enslavement / our inner redemption
Pharaoh of old denied God asking, “who is God that I should listen to his voice”? A similar voice inside us puts God in second place, giving priority to the strident demands of the ego.
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Feelings: A gift of the physical world
Our feelings actually originate with the very Thought of Creation, whereby the Creator desires to give pleasure to all the created beings. Thus we all long for pleasure, and that is a given. But what is not a given, is how we receive this pleasure?
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"And God spoke to Abraham".
Since the flood, silence. God had not revealed himself to mankind again. What was He waiting for?
On the finish of the Creation, the words of the Torah are, vayhal  Elohim, "and God finished".  But the Holy Or HaChaim, Rabbi Ibn Atar, tells us that these words also have the connotation of God "yearning" for Man.  What was He yearning for?
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 the prayers of the  girls of Neveh Dekalim in the expulsion of Gush Katif
When God's light is hidden
"O God, My God, You, I seek You. My soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, in an arid and thirsty land without water" ( Psalm 63). David said these words when he was in sorrow and trouble and is    teaching the consciousness of God's light when it is concealed from us and how we may yet connect with God even when we can't.
From the Zohar.
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 Rabbi Baruch Shalom Ashlag blessing according to Kabbalah
God blesses us, we bless God; a holy dialogue
A holy dialogue increases the life and goodness in the world.   Blessing God for everything we enjoy is a simple and wonderful way that Judaism teaches us to change the one-way flow of God's goodness into a productive dialogue. download/
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Taking it personally: Cain and Abel:
By considering what the basic identity and makeup of Cain and Abel was, we can find how they are in fact elements represented in  each one of us. Once we have identified them,  we can ask ourselves the most important question of all: How do we stop our inner Cain "murdering" our inner Abel? 
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prayer from the heart
The Ascent of Prayer
 The worlds are connected with each other like a staircase. Influencing each other. Man has a crucial and pivotal role to play  in Creation. and prayer , when it goes up can influence for the good.Dedicated to the safe return of Ayal ben Iris Teshurah, Gilad Michael ben Bat Galim,Yaakov Naftali Ben Rachel Devorah.
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Keeping faith form the Kabbalah of Rabbi Ashlag
Keeping faith in good times and bad
We all have moments of connection with our soul, with the Divine within us,....and we all have moments when we feel sad or depressed or spiritless. How do we keep ourselves from falling into the grip of the will to receive for ourselves alone and ending up separated from our soul, from God? 
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Acting out of the box means leaving the framework of evil and coming to the framework of holiness. From the teaching of Rabbi Ashlag
Acting "out of the box"
"It is a natural law for every created being, that whatever is to be found outside the framework of his own body, seems to him to be empty and completely unreal." Rabbi Ashlag, Matan Torah. download
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"God is my strength and my song; He will be for me a salvation."
 A lesson from the Zohar itself.  download/
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The arek a velsel for the goodness fo God . as tuaght by Rabbi Ashlag
"Make for Me a sanctuary so I may dwell within them."
The sanctuary, the Mishkan, its structure and its service,  is like a map. It details both the essence of the soul, and also guides us so  can come to the soul's fulfillment in actual practice
 It is our inner sanctuary we must now build.  download  listen.
 I saw an upside down world
"I saw an upside down world" (Pesachim 50a
 Rabbi Yoseph Ben Yehoshua ben Levi had a near death experience. When he had recovered he told  that he saw in the next world, a world of opposite values to those we value in this ego -ruled world. Chasing after our  ego values is like chasing after tinsel. download/
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What are we really looking for? The conflict between the desires of the ego and those of the soul.
What are we really looking for?
This question stands at the center of our lives, our hopes, our dreams. It is the motivating force that drives us forwards. download
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Sriving to do good even when our own selfishness stops us still helps
Mixed Motives: Are they any good?
When we start to learn the Kabbalah of Rabbi Ashlag and we learn that most of our desires are driven by our will to receive for ourselves alone, which separates us from the Creator it comes as a shock. download listen now

learning th elanguage of love from the Kabbalah
Learning the Language of Love
Love your neighbor as yourself is  actually a statement which sums up the whole of the Torah. In this talk we look at the relationship between loving our neighbor unconditionally and the soul. From Matan Torah by Rabbi Ashlag.  download
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Letting go of the light
Why did Avraham break off from his communication with God and turn to give hospitality to the angels? This tiny detail in the life of Avraham Aveinu, has a profound meaning for us today.download
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Chosses life: the Torah is called life
Choose Life!:
The Torah itself is called the Torah of life.download
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 Faith : from the writings of the Rabbi of Piezeczna
Faith: Torah from the Years of Fury
The holy Rabbi of Pieczetsna, Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, taught his community during  the last years of the Warsaw Ghetto.  He faced this issue of faith in God in the worst of all imaginable circumstances.
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Teh Kabbalah and our feelings
Feelings: True or false?
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Valuing our selves formt he wisdom of the kabbalah of Rabbi Ashlag
How do we value ourselves?
The paradox of the human being
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The natural forces of Creation and how man's consciousness affects them: From the Zohar
The natural forces of Creation and how man's consciousness affects them: From the Zohar
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Choosing our pathre
Choosing our path
The souls exist in different states simultaneously.   how and in what way do I choose my path? From the teachings of Rabbi Ashlag.
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  The incarantion of the soul form thea letter by the Baal HaSulams  asymbol for the soul
Why the soul incarnates: A letter by Rabbi Ashlag
 Why did the soul, so perfect and pure, come into this troubled and difficult existence? From a letter written by the Baal haSulam
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The Kabbalah and Divind  Providence
The Divine Providence and I
The Purpose of Creation seems remote from us.  Yet, all. that happens to us and all that we choose is in fact the consequence of the Purpose of the Creation unfolding right within our lives
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 Teh inner emaning of the Shema
Blessing God's Name: Changing the challenge into an opportunity
When we say the first six words of the Shema, tradition has it that we respond with a whisper, "Blessed be His glorious Name for ever and ever. download
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 the love of God  unconditionally
Loving God 3: In good times and in bad
Loving God isn't an easy thing for most of us. We tend to take the good times as our due or for granted , and in bad we just feel miserable and angry. How can we remain open to love?
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 The Love of God form the Zohar
Loving God 2: Like Abraham or like Noah?
 How did Noah , the father of all humanity, and Abraham our father. come to love God?  Can we learn from their approach?
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 Bllessing God with love
Loving God, The second root mitzvah:
Is it at all possible? What does love mean? Can one command a feeling?
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 Yirat haShem : not separating from God
Yirat HaShem 3: True Yirah vs. false fear
Opposing the true Yirat HaShem, which is the desire not to do anything that will harm our relationship with the Divine, lies the potential space in consciousness for our false fears. The fears that are self-serving.
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 our relationship with the Divine orform Rabbi Ashlag
Yirat HaShem 2-The very beginning and basis of our relationship with the Divine
Yirat HaShem, actually means the fear of doing anything that will cause me to become separated from the Divine. Both the Divine within and the Divine without. This is not a theoretical issue, but one which actually forms both the beginning, and the ongoing experience of the most important relationship we have.
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Teh fear of God from the Zohar
Yirat HaShem- the fear of being separated from the Divine
 The beginning of wisdom, knowledge and faith...
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unconditonal giving: formt eh kabbalah of Rabbi Ashlag
Expecting a Reward
Giving unconditionally, without getting a reward, was built into the very beginning of the Creation.
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Dealing with dileemas; A podcast
Dealing with dilemmas
Have you ever found yourself in the uncomfortable position of being asked to do more than you really can? interestingly enough, this is the very position the highest spiritual entity in the very first of the spiritual worlds found itself in…
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Further on decisions
Further on Decisions
Sometimes life presents me with a situation which seems impossible to resolve. The Creator created the worlds with increasing concealment in order to give human beings free choice.  Based on Rabbi Ashlag’s article on “Freedom”.
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Free choice ans decisons vs Divinely ordained
Decisions
The Baal Shem Tov teaches us that before we make any move we need to consider ourselves as having infinite free choice. After the event we need to consider that the move we chose was the one God wanted us to choose.
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 Teh meanifn of the Akedah from the Kabbalah
The meaning of the Akedah
The great Kabbalist, the Ari informs us that the essence of God is unknowable. Even the highest angels have no conception of Him as He is in Himself, as He has no Name.
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