Life Lessons with Ariel Levy
By Ariel Levy
Ariel Levy will take listeners on a journey that will endeavour to reveal our relationship between philosophical ideas and mystical ideas and how these can be applied to every day life in the most simple way.
Ariel Levy will also guide listeners through a series of teachings on Jewish literature, holidays, prayers, parsha and so forth to uncover their deeper meanings and offer a more in-depth insight into the jewish religious experience.
Life Lessons with Ariel LevyNov 26, 2019
20. Where is our hope?
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19. Go beyond nature, beyond fear and suffering (Noach Avram Avinu )
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18. The real mission in life is to give - Interdependence
17. Building a vessel for holiness (Kedusha) - Broken Heart
16. About life and death - Taking responsibility
15. Tishrei Holydays as an inner process
In this life we are naturally attracted to pleasures and someone who wants to make tshuva cannot just stop having those pleasures and start a new life with the intellectual knowing alone, your heart needs to be with you too as an ally, the head is not enough. The process of Tshuva is like getting to know and overcoming your addictions by reprogramming yourself to a new pleasure in life from the heart, pleasures that better serve you.
Rosh Hashanah and yom Kippur are representing two ways of making a change and tshuva in life, in order to get to the happiness and clear our minds in Sukkot and Simchat Torah.... During this month we have a mission and an opportunity to to clean our thoughts, make new thoughts, step out of the old and into the new.
Your currency in this life is your commitment, do it because you want to do it, not because you need to.
14. Short preparation for Rosh Hashanah
13. A blessing, A curse - Unity vs Seperation
Each experience, good and bad makes you grow. Get along with life and surely, things will become easier for you. In this way the soul develops a unity of life. You can see the same thing as a blessing or a curse. Remember your life is your choice; what do you choose?
12. Holy Feminism - Show me your love
Woman have a deep natural attraction towards real holiness, to truly recognise holiness and follow real faith. We have a more emotional way of interacting and connecting with the world where men connect to the world through their attraction to the physical to the body. When a man and woman come together they balance the physical and spiritual.
11. Conscious acceptance, the doorway to loving freely
10. Surviving hard times. Elul, A time for teshuva. Shoftim
It is Elul, and the time is ripe to begin talking about repentance.
09: Popcorn Torah ~ What is the right blessings for it?
Learn how to let go. Let yourself be who you are with joy and happiness, without any stress. Evolve organically.
08: Spiritual Healing - the way of deep medicine
07: Forms of creation. Circles around Kedusha (holiness)
06: We Have A Plural Journey To Peace
05: Dimensions of Silence
04: Pampered in kedusha • Lowering Happiness & the Nine days of Av
03: How to approach Chumash & The importance of Crying - Vaigash
02: A good leader wakes the people up to take initiative
01: Drop your own story, join the light
We are conductors of spiritual energy, and that spirituality needs to be grounded onto the earth for us to truly have the deepest experience of Hashem. Part of our duty is to make the earth a home for Hashem. Through spiritual practice we make a home inside ourself for Hashem but we need to work the land too as a way to give back to the lans for its bounty and give thanks to Hashem but also so we can actually see, taste and touch the fruits of our spiritual and physical labour.
Our body is made of the same elements that make up the earth and just like we need to take rest, and do so on Shabbos on the 7th day, so to does the land need rest, to just be on the 7th year.
To see the light of Torah we need to drop our imaginary speculative story, take rest, let it be let it be so we can integrate the Torah in its purest way.