Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast It Is Taught Tanya Podcast
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| Episode 551- 7 Sivan (Regular Year) - What Does Monotheism Really Mean? | 01 Jun 2025 | 00:15:57 | |
In today's episode we discuss how the Ten Utterances through which G-d created the world are the fundamental building blocks of all of creation. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 550- 6 Sivan (Regular Year) - Why Do Muscles Tear Before They Grow? | 01 Jun 2025 | 00:20:29 | |
In today's episode we discuss the deeper meaning behind the verse from Mishlei, “For a tzaddik may fall seven times, yet rises again.” (Mishlei, 24:16) and how this relates to the idea of "educating a child according to his ways etc".. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 541- 26 Iyar (Regular Year) - Matrilineal Descent | 23 May 2025 | 00:12:20 | |
In today's episode we discuss the Shechina and its parallel to the human brain in relation to the organs of the body. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 451 - 25 Shevat (Regular Year) - Why You Should Practice Delayed Gratification | 23 Feb 2025 | 00:19:18 | |
In today's episode we discuss the great spiritual effects delaying our gratification even for permissible things has. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 450 - 24 Shevat (Regular Year) - Why Do I Feel So Empty After Accomplishing a Big Goal? | 21 Feb 2025 | 00:22:28 | |
In today's episode we discuss the special pleasure that the service of the Beinonim bring to G-d in their struggle with their impulses, and how it compares to the pleasure G-d gets from the service of Tzaddikim. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 449 - 23 Shevat (Regular Year) - In Praise of Repression | 21 Feb 2025 | 00:25:38 | |
In today's episode we discuss why a person should not dwell on inappropriate thoughts when they arise in their mind but rather push them aside. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 448 - 22 Shevat (Regular Year) - Recognizing Misplaced Guilt | 20 Feb 2025 | 00:19:20 | |
In today's episode we discuss how to overcoming sadness regarding spiritual matters (i.e. feeling sad about the sins we have committed). Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 447 - 21 Shevat (Regular Year) - Overcoming Sadness | 19 Feb 2025 | 00:22:40 | |
In today's episode we discuss how a person can alleviate feelings of sadness and worry regarding worldly matters. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 446 - 20 Shevat (Regular Year) - The Swamp of Sadness | 18 Feb 2025 | 00:18:50 | |
In today's episode, we discuss why sadness is such a detrimental trait that has no value in its own right, unless it is used to lead to greater happiness. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 445 - 19 Shevat (Regular Year) - The Power of Now | 17 Feb 2025 | 00:24:52 | |
In today's episode we discuss why asking G-d to forgive us 3x per day in the Shmonei Esrei prayer (in the blessing Shlach Lanu) does not mean that we sin and have in mind that we'll repent later (which is not allowed). And we also discuss why it is essential for us to assert our willingness to sacrifice our lives for G-d every day even if we won't practically be faced with such a test in actuality. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 444 - 18 Shevat (Regular Year) - Procrastination is Stupid | 16 Feb 2025 | 00:25:23 | |
In today's episode, we discuss how the same logic which makes refraining from transgressing G-d's prohibitions very accessible to every Jew, can be applied to exerting oneself in regards to performing the positive commandments. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com
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| Episode 443 - 17 Shevat (Regular Year) - Restoring Sanity | 14 Feb 2025 | 00:20:22 | |
In today's episode we discuss how the fact that a Jew is willing to sacrifice their life rather than renounce G-d's unity in an overt way, should motivate a person to not want to ever do even the smallest thing which is against the will of G-d, as even the most minor transgression separates a person from G-d's Unity. And the pain of withstanding temptation is surely easier and less painful to endure than the pain of death which a Jew would willingly suffer rather than renounce G-d's Unity overtly. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 442 - 16 Shevat (Regular Year) - The Fallacy of Rationalization | 14 Feb 2025 | 00:26:16 | |
In today's episode we discuss how the different exceptions and punishments for various transgressions are not reflections of their varying severities, and how any transgression brings a person's G-dly soul down into the realm of the Sitra Achra and Klipos. Follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/It-Is-Taught- Twitter: https://twitter.com/itistaught Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itistaughtpodcast/ To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 540 - 25 Iyar (Regular Year) - Have You Ever Been to a Light Show? | 23 May 2025 | 00:34:01 | |
In today's episode we discuss how G-d's essence is hidden equally within the supernal worlds is it is in the lower worlds, how G-d's light, as manifest by a vital flow, is revealed in different degrees through different worlds and how G-d's Light is most concealed here in our physical world. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Tu B'Shvat and Self Transformation | 13 Feb 2025 | 00:43:32 | |
Special Tu B'Shvat Episode Based in part on a discourse by the Lubavitcher Rebbe found in Toras menachem from the year 5722 (1962) Link to related Times of Israel Blogpost | |||
| Episode 441 - 15 Shevat (Regular Year) - Temporary Insanity and the Realm of Beasts | 13 Feb 2025 | 00:21:10 | |
In today's episode we discuss the idea of how it is that when a person does something which is against the will of G-d, it is because a spirit of folly enters into them. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 440 - 14 Shevat (Regular Year) - What Is Worse Than Evil and How Not to Be That | 12 Feb 2025 | 00:25:16 | |
In today's episode we discuss how when a person engages in something which is prohibited by G-d, their animal souls and its garments become degraded below the source of these prohibitions (i.e the Sitra Achra and Klipos). Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 439 - 13 Shevat (Regular Year) - Who Do You Respect? | 11 Feb 2025 | 00:14:54 | |
In today's episode, we discuss how being involved in Torah study leads to a great awe of G-d. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 438 - 12 Shevat (Regular Year) - What's Missing In ChatGPT? | 10 Feb 2025 | 00:20:24 | |
In today's episode we discuss how learning Torah connects us to G-d in a more intimate way than doing Mitzvos, which make us into a chariot for G-d. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 437 - 11 Shevat (Regular Year) - Motor Neurons | 09 Feb 2025 | 00:15:17 | |
In today's episode we discuss how it is that when we perform G-d's Commandments, we become vehicles for G-d's Supernal Will. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 436 - 10 Shevat (Regular Year) - Why is Arrogance Likened to Idolatry? | 07 Feb 2025 | 00:21:29 | |
In today's episode we discuss the roots of idolatry. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 435 - 9 Shevat (Regular Year) - Who Likes Paying Taxes? | 07 Feb 2025 | 00:13:31 | |
In today's episode we discuss how those creations which oppose G-d receive their vitality from Him. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 434 - 8 Shevat (Regular Year) - A Turtle's Shell Is Its Body | 06 Feb 2025 | 00:18:25 | |
In today's episode, we discuss how G-d's Speech is unified with Him even after He Speaks the worlds into being, in the way that the letters of our speech and thoughts are unified with our minds and hearts before we think or speak. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 433 - 7 Shevat (Regular Year) - Does G-d Talk? | 05 Feb 2025 | 00:16:44 | |
In today's episode we discuss in what ways G-d's "Speech" is similar and different to our speech. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 539- 24 Iyar (Regular Year) - Are We Living in a Simulation? | 22 May 2025 | 00:17:35 | |
In today's episode we discuss how the brain is the main dwelling place of the soul and the source through which the rest of the body receives it's vitality. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 432 - 6 Shevat (Regular Year) - What Do You Want and How Do You Get It? | 04 Feb 2025 | 00:19:47 | |
In today's episode we discuss how we can understand how G-d remains unchanged by His creations and how they are considered as if naught and nothing in comparison to Him by looking at a parable of human speech, thought and desire. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 431 - 5 Shevat (Regular Year) - Singularity | 03 Feb 2025 | 00:11:48 | |
In today's episode we discuss G-d's Uniqueness in the sense of how He doesn't change as a result of His Creations and also how His Creations are totally and utterly dependent upon Him for their existence. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 430 - 4 Shevat (Regular Year) - Jewish Pride | 02 Feb 2025 | 00:21:36 | |
In today's episode we discuss how this aspect of Chochma within a Jewish soul is always present, albeit dormant within a wayward Jew, which is what gives him or her the strength to not renounce their faith in G-d even in speech or action when faced with a life or death challenge to this. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 429 - 3 Shevat (Regular Year) - Life, Death and Insanity | 31 Jan 2025 | 00:18:17 | |
In today's episode we discuss how the attribute of Chochma, from where the innate yearning for self abnegation comes from, is associated with Holiness, and how the orientation towards independent selfhood is associated and stems from the opposite place. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 428 - 2 Shevat (Regular Year) - Was Freud Right? | 31 Jan 2025 | 00:10:40 | |
In today's episode we discuss how the Jewish soul is likened to a candle that wants to revert back to it's source. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 427 - 1 Shevat (Regular Year) - The Wisdom of The Fool | 30 Jan 2025 | 00:14:34 | |
In today's episode we discuss why it is the faculty of Chochma specifically which serves as a conduit to draw down G-d's light into the soul. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 426 - 29 Teves (Regular Year) - We Are All Trust Fund Babies | 29 Jan 2025 | 00:16:20 | |
In today's episode we discuss the innate love of G-d that all Jews inherit from our forefathers. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 425 - 28 Teves (Regular Year) - Is an Addict Responsible for Their Actions? | 28 Jan 2025 | 00:24:26 | |
In today's episode we discuss how a Rasha can lose their ability to have their mind rule over their heart as a punishment for ongoing sinning. For such a person, the only way that they can return to serving G-d is through Teshuva which involves the breaking of their heart and the embitterment of their soul. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 424 - 27 Teves (Regular Year) - But I Couldn't Help Myself... | 27 Jan 2025 | 00:15:04 | |
In today's episode we discuss what the verse in Devarim 30:14 means by saying that that which is "in your heart, that you may do it." is very "near to you." Follow us on: Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 423 - 26 Teves (Regular Year) - How Can You Fly if You Don’t Have Wings? | 26 Jan 2025 | 00:18:35 | |
In today's episode we discuss how a person's Torah and Mitzvos can ascend to higher worlds even if they haven't succeeded in having their intellectually generated feelings of Love and Fear of G-d to manifest within their heart. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 538- 23 Iyar (Regular Year) -It's Not Your Eye That Sees. It's Your Brain. | 21 May 2025 | 00:18:04 | |
In today's episode we to discuss the soul is equally present throughout the body and is not made up of composite parts as one might think. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 422 - 25 Teves (Regular Year) - When You're Feeling Emotionally Blocked... | 24 Jan 2025 | 00:26:37 | |
In today's episode we discuss how a Beinoni can still serve G-d even if their meditation and learning about G-d doesn't arouse passionate feelings of Fear and Love of G-d in their hearts. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 421 - 24 Teves (Regular Year) - Get Out of Your Comfort Zone | 24 Jan 2025 | 00:15:50 | |
In today's episode we discuss what the ideal service of a Benoni is. I also talk about my experience running a 1/2 marathon to help illustrate the ideas. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 420 - 23 Teves (Regular Year) - I Woke Up Like This? | 23 Jan 2025 | 00:21:36 | |
In today's episode we discuss what is meant by one who "serves G-d" and one "who serves Him not" as referenced in a verse from Malachi (3:18) “And you will return and see the difference between the righteous man and the wicked one, between he who serves G-d and he who serves Him not.” Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 419 - 22 Teves (Regular Year) - Why Strive for an Unattainable Goal? | 22 Jan 2025 | 00:23:02 | |
In today's episode we explore why every soul is made to give an oath before birth to be a Tzaddik if this is not something which is attainable to all. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 418 - 21 Teves (Regular Year) - Don't Follow Your Heart | 21 Jan 2025 | 00:26:06 | |
In today's episode we discuss how the Beinoni is someone who isn't able to change their impulses, but rather is in complete control over them. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 417 - 20 Teves (Regular Year) - Overcoming Impostor Syndrome | 20 Jan 2025 | 00:25:25 | |
In today's episode we discuss how the service of a Beinoni can still be considered to be a "Truthful Service" albeit not on the level of "Truth" as that of a Tzaddik's. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 416 - 19 Teves (Regular Year) - Sleeping Beast | 19 Jan 2025 | 00:17:24 | |
In today's episode we discuss how it could be that someone who's entire aspiration is to study G-d's Torah and is filled with conscious love of G-d and is involved with Torah study and prayer day and night may still be a Beinoni and not a Tzaddik. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 415 - 18 Teves (Regular Year) - Can a Judge Ever Really Be Impartial? | 17 Jan 2025 | 00:23:14 | |
In today's episode we discuss how it is that the Beneini is able to overcome their negative impulses at all times and also why it is that this doesn't mean that they attain the level of a Tzaddik and why they should always think of themselves "as if" they are a Rasha. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 414 - 17 Teves (Regular Year) - Impulse Control | 17 Jan 2025 | 00:09:45 | |
In today's episode we discuss how the impression that remains after prayer of the innate hidden Fear and Love of G-d that the Beinoni has in their heart helps them overcome their temptations to sin. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 413 - 16 Teves (Regular Year) - The Tightrope Walker | 16 Jan 2025 | 00:08:34 | |
In today's episode we discuss why a Beinoni is not considered to be a Tzaddik if he never sins in Thought, Speech or Action. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 537- 22 Iyar (Regular Year) - Sometimes Loving Means Holding Back | 20 May 2025 | 00:18:39 | |
In today's episode we discuss how we can be motivated to keep Torah and Mitzvos if we are tapped into the type of love towards G-d which makes us want to expire in our Source. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 412 - 15 Teves (Regular Year) - Caging the Animal | 15 Jan 2025 | 00:09:04 | |
In today's episode we discuss how it is that the Beinoni doesn't actively sin in Thought Speech or Action in spite of their G-dly Soul not having sole rulership over their body. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 411 - 14 Teves (Regular Year) - The Case Against Radical Honesty | 14 Jan 2025 | 00:21:06 | |
In today's episode we discuss how a Beinoni is solely ruled by G-dly garments, however their G-dly Attributes only gain full rulership over them during auspicious times like when they read Krias Shema or pray. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 410 - 13 Teves (Regular Year) - Regret is a Good Thing | 13 Jan 2025 | 00:16:15 | |
In this episode we discuss the various categories of Reshaim (wicked people). Follow us on: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGGTknXIYx1DScUYJe2nupw Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/It-Is-Taught-101805165658211 Twitter: https://twitter.com/itistaught Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itistaughtpodcast/ | |||