Welcome to The Spirit of the Torah from Applied Jewish Spirituality (AJS).

In every episode, Rabbi Daniel Raphael Silverstein explores insights arising from the Hebrew calendar or our weekly Torah portion, and related practices that can help us to effect positive change in our lives.

In this episode, we explore the spiritual meaning of the beautiful festival of Sukkot and its emphasis on joyful, embodied, earth-based practices.

Here are the sources referred to in this episode:

The embrace or hug of the Divine Right Hand of Chesed (Loving-Oneness):

https://www.sefaria.org/Pri_Etz_Chaim%2C_Gate_of_Sukkot.1.3?vhe=Pri_Etz_Chaim&lang=bi

The joyful ancient celebration of Sukkot, as described in the Mishnah:

https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Sukkah.5.1?vhe=Torat_Emet_357&lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en

Returning to the physical and practical:

https://www.sefaria.org/Olat_Reiyah%2C_Between_Yom_Kippur_and_Sukkot?lang=bi

Dwelling in the Clouds of Glory:

https://www.sefaria.org/Sukkah.11b.15?vhe=William_Davidson_Edition_-_Vocalized_Aramaic&lang=bi

Combining the natural and super-natural:

https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%90%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%A2%D7%9C_%D7%A9%D7%91%D7%AA_%D7%99%D7%91_%D7%90

All dwelling in one Sukkah:

https://www.sefaria.org/Sukkah.27b?lang=bi

https://www.yeshiva.org.il/midrash/32403

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Welcome to The Spirit of the Torah from Applied Jewish Spirituality (AJS).

In every episode, Rabbi Daniel Raphael Silverstein explores insights arising from the Hebrew calendar or weekly Torah portion, and related practices that can help us to effect positive change in our lives.

This episode about Yom Kippur explores key ideas from the Kabbalah about this special day, including its association with the quality of Binah (Understanding) and Olam Haba (The World that is Coming).

From these kabbalistic concepts, we draw some concrete insights and practices to enrich our experience of this powerful period in our calendar.

Below are the sources referred to during the episiode.

Space, Time and Being:
https://www.sefaria.org/Sefer_Yetzirah.6.1?lang=bi

Yom Kippur, The Soul and Life-force of the Year:
https://www.sefaria.org/Me'or_Einayim%2C_Ha'Azinu.2?vhe=Me%27or_Einayim_--_OYW&lang=bi

Binah, the Upper Mother or Womb of Our Being:
https://www.sefaria.org/Zohar%2C_Vayechi.22.179?vhe=Vocalized_Zohar,_Israel_2013&lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en
https://www.sefaria.org/Shenei_Luchot_HaBerit%2C_Aseret_HaDibrot%2C_Chullin%2C_Torah_Ohr.116?vhe=Shenei_Luchot_HaBrit,_based_on_Amsterdam,_1698_ed._Part_II&lang=bi

Olam Haba – The World that is Coming
https://www.sefaria.org/Mishneh_Torah%2C_Repentance.8.8?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en

Revealing the essence of what was always there:
https://www.sefaria.org/Shemonah_Kevatzim.5.9.1?vhe=Rav_Kook_public_files&lang=bi

Binah is understanding one thing in relation to another:
https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.93b.3?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en

Forgiving ourselves then others, revealing the hidden goodness in all things:
https://www.sefaria.org/Shemonah_Kevatzim.2.150.1?vhe=Rav_Kook_public_files&lang=bi

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Welcome to The Spirit of the Torah from Applied Jewish Spirituality (AJS).

In every episode, Rabbi Daniel Raphael Silverstein explores insights arising from the Hebrew calendar or weekly Torah portion, and related practices that can help us to effect positive change in our lives.

Rosh Hashanah, our new year festival, has a lot to teach us about beginning, and our relationship with our own future self.

In this, our first episode, we will explore how the story of Joseph is intrinsically connected to the essence of the day, and what this can teach us about building a relationship with the person that we wish to become.

You can find the sources referred to in this episode below:
https://www.sefaria.org/Rosh_Hashanah.10b?lang=bi
https://www.sefaria.org/Yoma.35b.11?lang=bi
https://www.sefaria.org/Sotah.36b?lang=bi

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