Latest Women's tanya class Podcast Episodes
Tanya Chapter 37 part 1
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - November 12, 2021 18:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThe coming future will see “a home for Hashem” in this physical world –– total Divine revelation. This destiny is not detached from our present reality, a sudden transformation imposed from above. In fact, it is a direct product of our present reality, because the mitzvot we perform today actual...
Tanya Chapter 36 part 4
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - November 04, 2021 23:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThe Revelation at Mount Sinai broke all barriers, and we beheld the Divine. That condition was only temporary -- the sin of the golden calf brought denseness back to the world. Still, with the profound revelation of the Torah, we received the strength to transform the darkness into light, and th...
Tanya Chapter 36 part 3
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - October 29, 2021 04:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIt should be utterly impossible to remain in existence when G-d is totally and essentially manifest. And it is. No being, earthly or heavenly, can withstand total Divine exposure. Yet, there is one way to remain vested in the body and yet bear that profound revelation that is coming at the End o...
Tanya Chapter 36 part 2
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - October 22, 2021 04:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIn understanding the Divine desire, we come to examine the Kabbalistic idea of the chain-like order of worlds. And in so doing, we come to realize something utterly striking: that in our world of darkness lies the ultimate purpose of creation.
Tanya Chapter 36 part 1
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - October 17, 2021 19:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsHashem has a desire to dwell in these lowest realms. In order to understand the scope of this desire, we must first define "lower" and "higher" from a new frame of reference. With our new realization, we can come to the astounding realization that Hashem is equally present in all of the worlds, ...
Tanya Chapter 36: Why was it all created? There's a purpose. part 1
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - October 17, 2021 19:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsHashem has a desire to dwell in these lowest realms. In order to understand the scope of this desire, we must first define "lower" and "higher" from a new frame of reference. With our new realization, we can come to the astounding realization that Hashem is equally present in all of the worlds, ...
Tanya Chapter 35 part 5
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - May 28, 2021 20:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsYes, the animal soul at its core remains the same even during a mitzvah. But because its power is subjugated to holiness during a mitzvah –– indeed! It even powers the mitzvah –– and its essential self is rendered voiceless although unchanged, it does not prevent the Divine presence from manifes...
Tanya Chapter 35 part 4
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - May 21, 2021 05:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsEven in the highest of all worlds, fusion with the Divine is only by first enmeshing within Chochmah –– the power of nothingness. This underscores the idea that only something that is utterly surrendered to the Divine has the power to manifest the Divine. What has no identity other than being pu...
Tanya Chapter 35 part 3
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - May 07, 2021 04:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsA mitzvah is different from everything else in our experience. In a world of concealment, the mitzvah represents the total manifestation of the Divine will. In contrast to rapturous feelings of love, or deep feelings of awe for Hashem, a mitzvah is not an outgrowth of the human experience. It is...
Tanya Chapter 35 part 2
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - April 30, 2021 02:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsKing Solomon taught, “a wise man’s eyes are in his head.” But isn’t that where every person’s eyes are? The wise man stands out in that his eyes are focused on the Shechina that rests upon his head, mindful to supply oil for the light. Just as physically, there needs to be oil to fuel a wick and...
Tanya Chapter 35: Why action is of primary importance. part 1
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - April 23, 2021 01:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIsn’t our life’s journey about refining ourselves spiritually, so that we reach ever higher in our relationship with the Divine? And consider this: The beinoni –– the average person –– can never transform their animal soul, being unable to banish the evil from within it. So then why did their so...
Tanya Chapter 35 part 1
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - April 23, 2021 01:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIsn’t our life’s journey about refining ourselves spiritually, so that we reach ever higher in our relationship with the Divine? And consider this: The beinoni –– the average person –– can never transform their animal soul, being unable to banish the evil from within it. So then why did their so...
Tanya Chapter 34 part 2
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - April 16, 2021 03:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsWe are privileged to host the Al-mighty whenever we study His will and wisdom –– the Torah. But much of the time we cannot study Torah, being occupied with worldly matters. Here we explore different ways to bring the experience of manifesting the Divine unity into the rest of our day. We can do ...
Tanya Chapter 34 part 1
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - March 05, 2021 04:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThe Patriarchs were the Divine chariot, never breaking focus from the Divine unity. And this was true to varying degrees about each of the prophets, most notably our teacher Moses. As a whole, the Jewish people experienced something of this Divine revelation at the giving of the Torah, but they ...
Tanya Chapter 34: You can be a Sanctuary for the Divine. Here's how. part 1
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - March 05, 2021 04:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThe Patriarchs were the Divine chariot, never breaking focus from the Divine unity. And this was true to varying degrees about each of the prophets, most notably our teacher Moses. As a whole, the Jewish people experienced something of this Divine revelation at the giving of the Torah, but they ...
Tanya Chapter 33 part 3
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - February 19, 2021 02:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsWhen we attain awareness of the Divine unity, aside from the joy that we feel in the intimate closeness to Hashem, we become an abode for Him. And that is actually our purpose! This faith in G-d's unity is so transformational that it breathes new reviving life into us, taking us high above all o...
Embracing Womanhood
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - February 08, 2021 06:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThis Women's Tanya Class is our interactive spiritual journey where we investigate, discuss and apply the revolutionary ideas presented in the Tanya, a foremost work of Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism by the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.
Tanya Chapter 33 part 2
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - February 05, 2021 03:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsWhen we bring the idea of Hashem’s true unity home until it pervades our mind and heart, the joy is enormous! This actually constitutes an experience of the closeness of Hashem. Our realization brings us greater joy than that of the commoner with whom the king shows extra closeness, and in whose...
Tanya Chapter 33: Prescription for pure joy! part 1
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - January 29, 2021 05:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIf you are feeling weary and need extra joy, think about this: the idea of Hashem's true unity. Hashem fills all worlds, spiritual and physical. Indeed, this entire world is filled with His glory, and everything has no value at all relative to Him. Let us picture how letters have no existence o...
Tanya Chapter 33 part 1
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - January 29, 2021 05:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIf you are feeling weary and need extra joy, think about this: the idea of Hashem's true unity. Hashem fills all worlds, spiritual and physical. Indeed, this entire world is filled with His glory, and everything has no value at all relative to Him. Let us picture how letters have no existence o...
Tanya Chapter 32 part 4
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - January 22, 2021 01:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIt sounds good to love and hate the same person. But how to act towards this individual, practically speaking? This is the time to employ compassion, which banishes hatred and arouses love. But what about King David's “consummate hatred” towards certain sinners, to those who are aware of the Cr...
Tanya Chapter 32 part 3
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - January 15, 2021 03:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThe mitzvah of love applies to each and every Jewish person -- from great to small. But is this so? Isn't there a Talmudic statement urging us to hate certain fellow Jews? Examining the statement, we come to realize that there is a specific set of very narrow criteria to be met in which one woul...
Tanya Chapter 32 part 2
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - January 08, 2021 03:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsHillel meant it quite literally –– love for our fellow really is the entirety of the Torah. Let’s examine the two-fold spiritual dynamic of the Torah. One aspect is about transcending the body and identifying with the soul. And another aspect is about drawing down the infinite light of the Divin...
Tanya Chapter 32 part 1
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - January 01, 2021 05:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsFollowing the advice of the previous chapters to consider our soul of primary importance and our body of secondary importance, we effectively re-focus the center of our being. We escape the grasp of our ego and instead center ourselves within the essence of our soul. From this space, we have an ...
Tanya Chapter 32: Can you really love another person as you do yourself? part 1
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - January 01, 2021 05:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsFollowing the advice of the previous chapters to consider our soul of primary importance and our body of secondary importance, we effectively re-focus the center of our being. We escape the grasp of our ego and instead center ourselves within the essence of our soul. From this space, we have an ...
Tanya Chapter 31 part 4
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - December 04, 2020 05:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsDedicating life to reuniting the soul with Hashem is a source of incredible happiness. And the joy grows greater still! Aside from the soul being restored to its former unity with Hashem through Torah and Mitzvos, there is something original in this life's journey that the soul didn't experience...
Tanya Chapter 31 part 3
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - November 27, 2020 02:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsOnce we truly realize the enormity of the Divine soul's exile, we are prompted to action. Our agenda now becomes to free the soul from captivity and restore her to being totally united and absorbed within the Divine reality. This is achieved through an incredible space where no darkness exists, ...
Tanya Chapter 31 part 2
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - November 19, 2020 23:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThe best time to stir up holy bitterness is when you are anyway sad because of mundane problems. Or, when you are sad for no apparent reason. Grab that moment of sadness and redirect it to become the holy emotion of bitterness. This will alleviate your worldly sadness, and unbelievably enough, t...
Tanya Chapter 31: Transition from bitterness to joy. part 1
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - November 13, 2020 02:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsTaking the ideas presented in the previous chapters to heart seems to put us in a very compromised position. Sadness! Isn't sadness to be avoided at all costs? After all, every sadness, even that which is induced by spiritual concerns, belongs to the realm of the kelipah. The Alter Rebbe tells u...
Tanya Chapter 31 part 1
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - November 13, 2020 02:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsTaking the ideas presented in the previous chapters to heart seems to put us in a very compromised position. Sadness! Isn't sadness to be avoided at all costs? After all, every sadness, even that which is induced by spiritual concerns, belongs to the realm of the kelipah. The Alter Rebbe tells u...
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