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Brief lessons in Jewish spirituality based on Torah by Rabbi David Bassous.com
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Monday Nov 09, 2015
Monday Nov 09, 2015
Friday Oct 02, 2015
Friday Oct 02, 2015
Friday Oct 02, 2015
Friday Oct 02, 2015
Friday Oct 02, 2015
Friday Oct 02, 2015
Friday Oct 02, 2015
Sunday Sep 06, 2015
Sunday Sep 06, 2015
In order to properly repent a person must understand the severity of what they have done. Listen!!!
Sunday Sep 06, 2015
Sunday Sep 06, 2015
Spiritual cleanliness is one of the most challenging levels in spiritual growth. Listen!!!
Sunday Sep 06, 2015
Sunday Sep 06, 2015
We are living in a world of moral relativism where there is no bedrock or anchor or absolute morality that people can agree on. The Torah provides us with standards that are hard but make sense and are workable.
Listen!!!
Sunday Sep 06, 2015
Sunday Sep 06, 2015
Mankind is the only one of God's creations to have the ability to choose behavior and destiny. Our choices have major repercussion both in this world and the next. Listen!!
Sunday Sep 06, 2015
Sunday Sep 06, 2015
Sunday Sep 06, 2015
One of the best techniques for self-improvement or raising children is forming and maintaining good habits. Listen!!!
Tuesday Aug 04, 2015
Tuesday Aug 04, 2015
Tuesday Aug 04, 2015
Tuesday Aug 04, 2015
How can we live on a high spiritual plane? Listen to Rabbi Moshe Chayim Luzatto explain in The Path of the Just.
Tuesday Aug 04, 2015
Tuesday Aug 04, 2015
How can we live on a high spiritual plane listen to Rabbi Moshe Chayim Luzatto explain in The Path of the Just.
Tuesday Aug 04, 2015
Tuesday Aug 04, 2015
The prophet Isaiah coined this term and the UN followed through by placing his famous quote on the Isaiah wall outside their New York headquarters: The LORD will mediate between nations and will settle international disputes. They will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer fight against nation, nor train for war anymore.
Tuesday Aug 04, 2015
Tuesday Aug 04, 2015
If you live in the North East you will know what a Rat Race is how can we avoid being swept up by it and being distracted from our purpose in life. Listen!!!
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Why be Jewish? Why Learn Torah? Why perform God's commandments? What is in it for me? Listen!!!
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Fixing our Character Traits is one of the main purposes of our lives says the Gaon of Vilna. Nearly everyone has some small or large flaws to fix. Listen!!!
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Easy to say "Don't Worry -Trust in God". The key to a happy life is trust and dependence on Divine providence and help. Listen!!!
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Most people are not in tune with their inner consciousness, not even aware that it exists but it contains the ability to connect with the Divine. Listen!!!
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Don't think that children will believe in God on their own. We are living in a godless society although God is still on the dollar bill and the president of either party regularly says God bless America. How do we transform lip service into real belief? Listen!!!
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
The Jewish Temple in Jerusalem served as the epicenter of spirituality in the world and the connection between the lower and upper dimensions. If a person was seeking God all he/she had to do was go to the temple and receive revelation.
King Solomon (King David's son) built the first temple in Jerusalem in 832 BCE and Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon had it destroyed in 422 BCE. Ezra and Nechemiah built the second temple in 516 BCE the Roman general Titus destroyed it in 68 CE why? Listen!!!!
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Only God is perfect and above sin. Human beings are torn between their physical desires and spiritual yearnings. Our Creator gave us the ability to repent for our wrongdoings and erase them and even make them into merits. Listen!!!
Wednesday Jun 03, 2015
Wednesday Jun 03, 2015
Teaching a watered down bagels and lox gastronomic and cultural Judaism will not stem the losses of our best and brightest to cults and the allure of foreign religions. We need to teach the beauty of our religion and the purpose of life. Listen!!!
Wednesday Jun 03, 2015
Wednesday Jun 03, 2015
Wednesday Jun 03, 2015
If you are or are interested in learning Talmud, here are 21 parts of the Talmud as explained by Rabbi Shmuel Hanagid about 800 years ago. Listen!!!
Wednesday Jun 03, 2015
Wednesday Jun 03, 2015
If you are or are interested in learning Talmud, here are 21 parts of the Talmud as explained by Rabbi Shmuel Hanagid about 800 years ago. Listen!!!
Wednesday Jun 03, 2015
Wednesday Jun 03, 2015
Wednesday Jun 03, 2015
King David states in Psalms "From my flesh I will see G-d..." Listen!!!
Wednesday Jun 03, 2015
Wednesday Jun 03, 2015
It is hard to motivate oneself to do good, here are some tools to help. Listen!!!
Wednesday Jun 03, 2015
Wednesday Jun 03, 2015
It is hard to motivate oneself to do good, here are some tools to start. Listen!!!
Tuesday May 05, 2015
Tuesday May 05, 2015
How does one overcome their lethargy and motivate themselves to do good deeds? Listen!!!
Monday May 04, 2015
Monday May 04, 2015
It is very easy to dismiss rebuke or rational arguments with mockery and derision but this is a dangerous game that could prevent a person from reaching the truth. Listen!!!
Monday May 04, 2015
Monday May 04, 2015
We are surrounded by the wonders of God's creation and design and yet focus more on puny human creations that are usually outdated in a year or two. God's design is amazing. Listen!!!
Monday May 04, 2015
Monday May 04, 2015
Are we born to have a good time and then to die or do our lives have a higher purpose? Listen!!!
Wednesday Apr 22, 2015
Wednesday Apr 22, 2015
As we all try and grow spiritually we also need to protect ourselves from digressing and from the slippery slope downward. We need to take precautions to protect ourselves from the spiritual snares and pitfalls that are around us each day. Listen!
Wednesday Apr 22, 2015
Wednesday Apr 22, 2015
Everyone has within themselves a soul that provides a propensity to perform acts of goodness. We all need to nurture it and tap into it. Listen!!!
Wednesday Apr 22, 2015
Wednesday Apr 22, 2015
One of the most interesting hypothetical discussion that the two great schools of Bet Shammai and Bet Hillel hat two millennia ago was the philosophical discussion if it is easier to be righteous or evil if it is easier to be evil then maybe it is better not to be born. Listen!!!
Wednesday Apr 22, 2015
Wednesday Apr 22, 2015
There has never been a case in human history of a nation exiled from its land for two thousand years persecuted and killed in the most horrifying ways. Despite a holocaust and savage persecution came back to the promised land. Listen!!!
Wednesday Apr 22, 2015
Wednesday Apr 22, 2015
It is amazing what one special person can accomplish. Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon or Maimonides was born in Cordoba Spain in 1135 and spent many years running away from anti-Semitic persecution . Despite all his trials and tribulations he became one of histories seminal figures. Listen!
Friday Mar 06, 2015
Friday Mar 06, 2015
As societal attitudes change, people's attitudes to mitzvot also change, listen!!!
Friday Mar 06, 2015
Friday Mar 06, 2015
The second of the ten commandments is the prohibition of idolatry, monotheism is the first commandment, listen!!!
Friday Mar 06, 2015
Friday Mar 06, 2015
Friday Mar 06, 2015
Friday Mar 06, 2015
TGIF became a big restaurant, little did they know that longing for the Shabbat is a mitzvah. Listen!!!