Explore every episode of the podcast It Is Taught Tanya Podcast
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| Episode 550- 6 Sivan (Regular Year) - Why Do Muscles Tear Before They Grow? | 01 juin 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 549- 5 Sivan (Regular Year) - Can You Choose to Love Someone? | 01 juin 2025 | 00:15:28 | |
In today's Tanya we discuss the type of Love which Moshe Rabeinu wished to instill in every Jew. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 551- 7 Sivan (Regular Year) - What Does Monotheism Really Mean? | 01 juin 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 547- 3 Sivan (Regular Year) - A Candle Meditation | 30 mai 2025 | 00:20:54 | |
In today's episode we discuss how performing mitzvos is likened to a candle. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 548- 4 Sivan (Regular Year) - Beginner's Mind | 30 mai 2025 | 00:29:54 | |
In today's episode we begin to discuss Chinuch Katan, which is the introduction to the section of the tanya known as Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah. The section deals with understanding what it means to "educate a child according to his youth such that even when he ages it won't depart from him". Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 546- 2 Sivan (Regular Year) - Where Has Divinity Gone? | 29 mai 2025 | 00:22:54 | |
In today's episode we discuss what happened to the Shechina after the First Temple was destroyed, both in the times of the Second Temple, as well as in our times now that the Second Temple has been destroyed as well. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 545- 1 Sivan (Regular Year) - A Blip in Nature | 28 mai 2025 | 00:21:38 | |
In today's episode we discuss how the Tablets upon which were engraved the Ten Commandments revealed the Shechina in a much stronger way than any other physical creation. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 544 -29 Iyar (Regular Year) - Is G-d a She? | 27 mai 2025 | 00:23:42 | |
In today's episode we discuss how the Schina descends from Malchus of Briya all the way down into our world. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 543- 28 Iyar (Regular Year) - Who Are Your Parents, Really? | 26 mai 2025 | 00:20:54 | |
In today's episode we discuss how the Shechina descends from world to world, focusing on it's descent from the world of Atzilus into the world of Briyah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 542- 27 Iyar (Regular Year) - Don't Look Directly at the Sun! | 25 mai 2025 | 00:15:04 | |
In today's episode, we discuss how the Shechina is too intense for the worlds to handle without garments and how G-d's Will and Wisdom as vested in Torah serve as garments for the Shechina. 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 mai 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 540 - 25 Iyar (Regular Year) - Have You Ever Been to a Light Show? | 23 mai 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 | |||
| Episode 539- 24 Iyar (Regular Year) - Are We Living in a Simulation? | 22 mai 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 538- 23 Iyar (Regular Year) -It's Not Your Eye That Sees. It's Your Brain. | 21 mai 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 537- 22 Iyar (Regular Year) - Sometimes Loving Means Holding Back | 20 mai 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 536 - 21 Iyar (Regular Year) - Is Lovesickness Fatal? | 19 mai 2025 | 00:20:57 | |
In today's episode we discuss another type of love of G-d which is unique in that it stems from the Left side and is related to the Levites. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 535 - 20 Iyar (Regular Year) - How to Kiss G-d | 18 mai 2025 | 00:16:55 | |
In today's episode we discuss how deep meditation upon everything we've learned in this chapter so far should lead to a person wanting to connect with G-d with an aspect of a kiss, and we talk about what this means. We also discuss how the power of speaking words of Torah out loud and how this is essential for fulfilling our purpose on Earth. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 533 - 18 Iyar (Regular Year) - Music is the Silence Between the Notes | 16 mai 2025 | 00:35:05 | |
In today's episode we discuss the three general Tzimtzumim and how this relates to our service of G-d. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 534 - 19 Iyar (Regular Year) - Overcoming Codependency | 16 mai 2025 | 00:28:45 | |
In today's episode we discuss the connection the two blessings we recite before the Shema have with the Shema prayer. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 532 - 17 Iyar (Regular Year) - The Greatest Magic Trick | 15 mai 2025 | 00:14:49 | |
In today's episode we discuss how G-d's Thought literally encompasses the entire Earth and also what is meant by G-d being the Knowledge, the Knower and the Known. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 531 - 16 Iyar (Regular Year) - Curtain Call | 14 mai 2025 | 00:13:32 | |
In today's episode we further explore the nature of G-d's Light of Sovev Kol Almin. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 530 - 15 Iyar (Regular Year) - Zeno's Paradox | 13 mai 2025 | 00:22:34 | |
In today's episode we discuss the concept of infinitude and how this relates to G-d's Light. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 529- 14 Iyar (Regular Year) - How Do We Exist? | 12 mai 2025 | 00:11:09 | |
In today's episode we discuss how unnatural it is that our world, and all other worlds exist in a finite manner when we come from an Infinite Light which emanates out of an Infinite G-d. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 528 - 13 Iyar (Regular Year) - Get Out of Jail Free | 11 mai 2025 | 00:15:22 | |
In today's episode we discuss the deeper meaning behind the daily obligation of every individual to see his or herself as if he or she left Egypt. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 526 - 11 Iyar (Regular Year) - What Does It Mean When We Say that Marriage Is Sacred? | 09 mai 2025 | 00:22:46 | |
In today's episode we describe how our relationship with G-d through our performance of His mitzvos can be likened to a union between a bride and a groom. 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 527 - 12 Iyar (Regular Year) - I Don't Feel Anything | 09 mai 2025 | 00:17:34 | |
In today's Tanya we discuss the deeper meaning of the citation from Tehillim "I am a beast before you." Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 525 - 10 Iyar (Regular Year) - Contemplating Infinity | 08 mai 2025 | 00:18:48 | |
In today's episode we discuss the Infinitude of G-d's legion. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 524 - 9 Iyar (Regular Year) - Mirror, Mirror on the Wall | 07 mai 2025 | 00:14:30 | |
In today's episode we introduce a straightforward and accessible way for every Jew to access their hidden Love of G-d, namely by tapping into the idea that recognizing someone's love for you will arouse your love for that person in kind. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 523 - 8 Iyar (Regular Year) - Who Kisses a Girl Before Saying Hello?? | 06 mai 2025 | 00:20:02 | |
In today's episode we discuss the deeper meaning behind the story told in the Torah about Yaakov kissing Rochel upon meeting her. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 522 - 7 Iyar (Regular Year) - The Power of Compassion | 05 mai 2025 | 00:20:21 | |
In today's episode we discuss how Compassion can serve as an alternative gateway to service of G-d for its own sake (aside from love and fear). Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 521 - 6 Iyar (Regular Year) - Trust Fund Baby vs. Entrepreneur | 04 mai 2025 | 00:15:07 | |
In today's episode we discuss the advantage of a love of G-d which a person has to work for over those loves which are innate. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 519 - 4 Iyar (Regular Year) - Impostor Syndrome | 02 mai 2025 | 00:14:11 | |
In today's episode we learn why we shouldn't be concerned as to whether our love of G-d is authentic. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 520 - 5 Iyar (Regular Year) - Born This Way Doesn't Mean You Shouldn't Work at It. | 02 mai 2025 | 00:22:12 | |
In today's episode we discuss how we should use our minds to reveal the 2 types of innate loves of G-d (which also encompass within them fear) through intellectual meditation, which will translate into a strong and passionate love of G-d (Re'uta D'Liba). 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 518 - 3 Iyar (Regular Year) - The Love of a Child | 01 mai 2025 | 00:13:08 | |
In today's episode we discuss how a son loves his father more than he loves himself. G-d is our collective Father. So we all innately embody this type of love towards Him. This Love becomes revealed when we habitually speak and think about G-d as our Father. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 517 - 2 Iyar (Regular Year) - Why Do Women Like Lipstick? | 30 avr. 2025 | 00:17:02 | |
In today's episode we discuss how all Jews have an innate love of G-d which is illustrated in our desire to be alive. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 516 - 1 Iyar (Regular Year) - When Love Leads the Way | 29 avr. 2025 | 00:16:06 | |
In today's episode we discuss how in extenuating circumstances, love (of G-d) can actually precede fear (of G-d) though this ins't the usual way. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 515 - 30 Nissan (Regular Year) - Why Do Men Like Chasing Women? | 28 avr. 2025 | 00:20:04 | |
In today's episode we discuss the two levels of Ahava (i.e Love of G-d). Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 514 - 29 Nissan (Regular Year) - Debunking Psychics | 27 avr. 2025 | 00:31:53 | |
In today's episode we discuss the two levels of Yirah (i.e fear/awe of G-d) and how they are connected to Chochma (Wisdom). Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 512 - 27 Nissan (Regular Year) - If You Don't Have 10 Minutes, You Don't Have a Life | 25 avr. 2025 | 00:15:32 | |
In today's episode we discuss how spending a part of your day meditating upon G-d's Greatness, this can infuse the entirety of your day with a baseline level of fear of G-d (Yirah Ta'ta). Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 513 - 28 Nissan (Regular Year) - About That Time I "Met" Jackie Mason | 25 avr. 2025 | 00:22:15 | |
In today's episode we discuss how we can recognize G-ds Greatness by observing His garments, namely the heavenly bodies and the world around us. We also discuss how in addition to developing an intellectually based fear of G-d, we need to also cultivate and practice accepting the yoke of Heaven in a more simple and subservient way. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 511 - 26 Nissan (Regular Year) - The Limits of Anthropomorphism | 24 avr. 2025 | 00:18:31 | |
In today's Tanya we discuss how G-d senses the goings on in the world (Sees, Hears etc) if he does not have a body. We also discuss the limits of the anthropomorphic thinking. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 510 - 25 Nissan (Regular Year) - Buried Treasure | 23 avr. 2025 | 00:24:14 | |
In today's episode we discuss the twofold exertion necessary for a Jew to uncover their innate power to connect their Da'as to G-d. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 509 - 24 Nissan (Regular Year) - What Do You Know? | 22 avr. 2025 | 00:20:35 | |
In today's episode we discuss how we can all develop at the very least a lower level of Fear of G-d through cultivating our Knowledge (Da'as) of Him with the help of Moshe Rabbeinu, our faithful shepherd who nourishes us by virtue of being a collective soul and also through the sparks of his soul which get passed down into the wise people of each generation. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 508 - 23 Nissan (Regular Year) - A Breathing Meditation | 21 avr. 2025 | 00:20:42 | |
In today's episode we discuss how one can cultivate focus towards their service of G-d throughout the day. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 505 - 20 Nissan (Regular Year) - What's Wrong with Identity Politics? | 18 avr. 2025 | 00:16:04 | |
In today's episode we discuss how one should cultivate the intention of uniting his or her soul with the source of all Jewish souls whilst performing Torah and Mitzvos. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 506 - 21 Nissan (Regular Year) - What Do You Really Want? | 18 avr. 2025 | 00:15:09 | |
In today's episode we discuss how a person should not worry too much if they haven't obtained what they feel to be a sincere yearning for the unification of the collectivity of souls with their source in G-d. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 507 - 22 Nissan (Regular Year) - What Does Jewish Law Have to Say About Euthanasia? | 18 avr. 2025 | 00:14:58 | |
In today's episode we discuss how ultimately every Jewish person's true desire is to unite his soul with G-d's light, which is its source as it has been gifted to him or her by G-d. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 504 - 19 Nissan (Regular Year) - Did You Gain Weight During Quarantine? | 17 avr. 2025 | 00:20:10 | |
In today's episode we discuss how we should at the very least cultivate a sense of shame of man which will prevent us from doing something which is against the will of G-d. We also introduce the idea of how it is important to also awaken at the very least our innate love of G-d. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 503 - 18 Nissan (Regular Year) - Love is Not a Foundation | 16 avr. 2025 | 00:22:10 | |
In today's episode we discuss what one should meditate upon when performing the mitzvos of Tfillin and Tzitzis as well as how being motivated by love is not sufficient to render one's Torah and Mitzvos "service". Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||
| Episode 502 - 17 Nissan (Regular Year) - How to Get Your Students To Pay Attention | 15 avr. 2025 | 00:15:51 | |
In today's episode we discuss how and why Fear/Awe of G-d is a prerequisite for serving G-d out of Love. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com | |||