Learning Torah for the Heart’s Sake

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Learning Torah for the Heart’s Sake

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14 minutes

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Dec 16, 2013

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Rabbi Ashlag teaches us that the true purpose of learning Torah is in order to correct the heart. But what does he mean by "heart" and why does it need correction? How does the Torah help with this? A podcast

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Dec 16, 2013

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Starting with the Vision: The story of Creation also implies its ultimate perfection when the world will be raised to the consciousness of God by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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Learning Torah as Service: Learning Torah can be an act of service when we give to the material rather than receive from it. Our usual approach when learning is to try gain information, gain knowledge. What does an approach of giving when studying mean? by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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Succot and the Clouds of Glory by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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Where is God? by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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Choose Life!: The path of the ego or the path of the connection with the Torah. T We stand at the crossroad. How do we choose? A podcast based on the writings of Rabbi Ashlag by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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The Language of Rosh HaShanah Derives from Kabbalah by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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How do We Value Ourselves? The Paradox of the Human by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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Inner Counting: In the external unchanging pattern of counting the days between Pesach and Shavuot there is an extremely rich inner reality. Each day pertains to a different Sephirah, a vessel for the light of God. From the Zohar of Rabbi Ashlag by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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Why the Soul Incarnates: A Letter by Rabbi Ashlag: When in the body the soul can attain, that is both know and feel the true Names of God. This is knowledge she cannot attain whilst in the spiritual worlds by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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What the Books of Kabbalah are Really About by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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Kabbalah: What is it?: A Kabbalist is not someone who knows Holy Names but rather someone who allows the light of the Torah to shed light on his own motives and intentions. From the Zohar and the teachings of Rabbi Ashlag by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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Feelings: True or False?: Feelings may mislead us. Sweet may be bad and bitter may be good. .Yet they form an important part of our decision-making. How can we get our feelings to be more accurate, and distinguish good from bad? Rabbi Ashlag teaches us from the Kabbalah. by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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Receiving the Torah through Faith: The light of the Torah is one. The vessels with which we receive the light of the Torah are called the garments of the Torah. However, to access the light of the Torah we need to add in the ingredient of faith. by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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Rebuilding our Inner Jerusalem by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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The Menorah: a Metaphor for the Light of God by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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Faith: Torah from the Years of Fury by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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From the Depths I call to You by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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Forty Days of Love: From Elul to Yom Kippur: The essence of the month of Elul is "I am my Beloved's and my Beloved is mine." It’s a time for repairing relationships till they reach the level of love they had before we messed up, whether they are relationships between ourselves and our fellows or... by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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Chanukah: The Triumph of the Soul over the Ego by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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Keeping Faith in Good Times and Bad by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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Joining Heart and Mind by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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The Shofar: the Sound of Compassion: The shofar brings the light of compassion into the world on Rosh Hashanah. . The year cycle starts again, bringing the original light into the world which needs balancing through the mitzvah of the shofar . A class on the Zohar and Perush HaSulam. by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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Shame is a Precious Feeling by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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The Language of Kabbalah is the Language of Giving by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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Let us make Man! by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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Succot and the clouds of glory (republished): The shade provided by the Succah is that of the shelter of faith and this gives us faith for the New Year now open to us .This has the same essence as the Clouds of Glory that protected the Children of Israel in the wilderness. by Insights into Rabbi Ashlag's Kabbalah podcast
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Learning Torah for the Heart’s Sake

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Titles in the series (100)

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