This class was presented on Monday, 13 Teves, 5785, January 13, 2025, Parshas Shemos, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. It is the fourth in a series on the Alter Rebbe's discourse "Rani V'simchi" (Torah or Miketz/Chanukah), exploring how our breathing and its rhythm effects a cosmic process.

With Each Breath You Take, The Creator Engage in a Similar Rhythm

Torah Or Rani V'Simchi #4

Monday Class: Breathwork Through the Lens of the Alter Rebbe #2

This class, the third in a series on Rani V'simchi (Torah Or Miketz/Chanukah), was presented on Thursday, 9 Teves, 5785, January 9, 2025, Parshas Vayechi, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.
How does the breath work? As we breathe, we tune into the cosmic breath of the Divine. We exhale and surrender, then we inhale and refill ourselves with the life-force and energy.&nbsp;

We Walk Around Holding our breath. Time to Surrender and Exhale

Torah Or Rani V'Simchi #3

Breathwork Through the Lens of the Alter Rebbe #1

This class, the second in a series on Torah Or Miketz/Chanukah Rani V'simchi, was presented on Monday, 6 Teves, 5785, January 6, 2025, Parshas Vayechi, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.
We explored the words of the Zohar that around 1840 there will be an explosion of wisdom in the world. The synergy between science and Jewish mysticism, and how all is leading to oneness.&nbsp;

Why the Vilna Gaon Said You Can't Master Jewish Law without Knowing the Inner Secrets of Torah

Torah Or Rani V'Simchi #2

Why Are So Many Searching for Chassidus Today? We Are Fed Up with Dissonance

This class, on the Maamar Rani V'simchi in Torah Or Miketz/Chanukah was presented on Thursday, 2 Teves, Zos Chanukah, 5785, January 2, 2025, Parshas Vayigash, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.
This discourse explains the three names we are given in Tanach&mdash;daughters, sisters, and spouses of G-d. It explores the essential fabric of reality as a state of infinite oneness and wholeness because even the creation and the Providence in all of existence do not alter the state of oneness and perfection of everything as is. To live authentically is to hold space for the duality of reality, as the ultimate perfection and as a broken world we need to repair and heal.
Creation is defined as a word, the Divine word. This captures the nature of reality as Divine energy, which can be &ldquo;plagiarized&rdquo; as our own, detaching it from the Divine source. Like the wave that takes credit for itself, but when it crashes, it loses all, unless it understands that it is all part of the ocean.
But each word first exists as a thought, as an emotion, as an idea, as part of the subconscious. The same is true with the world: even while it is a word, it can still be experienced as a thought, as an emotion, as awareness, and as part of the infinite wholeness of Hashem.
How do we reconcile traditional physics with quantum physics? It is all based on the prism through which we perceive reality, from the &ldquo;word&rdquo; to the divine infinite source.&nbsp;
The class explores the ancient argument among philosophers if G-d is capable of doing illogical things; is He defined by logic at all, or not? How modern physics demonstrates the truths articulated in Kabbalah and Chassidus.&nbsp;
We discuss how Divine oneness is ultimately about experience, but the education of it allows us to go to experience, just like Google Maps can&rsquo;t get you to Miami, but it can show you the way and encourage you when you get stuck in traffic.

Understanding the Fabric of Reality – Is It a Divine Word, Thought, Emotion, Idea, Or Part of the Divine ‘Subconscious’?

Torah Or Rani V'Simchi #1

Quantum Physics and Chassidus -- Why Paradox Makes So Much More Sense

Miketz - Maamar Vayehi Miketz - Class 2

 Why Was David Punished for Calling Torah a Song?

Torah Or Miketz Maamar Vayehi Miketz #2

This class, in Torah Or by the Alter Rebbe, Baal HaTanya, was presented in the winter of 5777 (Nov. 2016), in Ohr Chaim Shul, Monsey, NY.

What Is Hell? Feeling the Pain In Order to Let Go of a Past

Torah Or Vayehi Miketz #3

Where Therapy Meets Spirituality

This class, in Torah Or by the Alter Rebbe, Baal HaTanya, was presented in the winter of 5777 (Nov. 2016), in Ohr Chaim Shul, Monsey, NY

Do Not Hide from Any Part of Your Life

Torah Or Vayehi Miketz #2

To Show Up In Life with Full Presence 

Wine of Joy and Wine of Intoxication

Torah Or Vayehi Miketz #1

Why Do People Drink?

The dream of Pharaoh's butler: Torah Or Mikeitz -- Vayehie Mikeitz Shenosayim. Why do people drink?

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Understanding Torah on Four Levels: Letters, Lines, Vowels, Music

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