You’re invited to tune into the next session in our Hineni parshah series: accessible embodied Judaism and yoga inspired by the weekly parshah and Chassidic wisdom! In this week’s parshah, Parshah Devarim, Moses rebukes the Israelites as he recounts the places they made mistakes at during their 40 year journey. The Chernobyler Rebbe sweetens this rebuke by teaching that Moses evoked expansive awareness (Da’at) with his speech, enabling the Israelites to experience these place

You’re invited to tune into the next session in our Hineni series: accessible embodied Judaism and yoga inspired by the weekly parshah and Chassidic wisdom! This week’s parshah, Massei (the second of the double parshah), lists the journeys of the Israelites from Egypt to the Promised Land. R’ Moshe Chaim Ephraim of Sudilkov (the grandson of the Besht) teaches that the 42 journeys of the Israelites occur in each of our lives. Through movement, breathwork, and grounding posture

We are taught that in the olam haba/the world to come, all of the fast days will be transformed into days of festivities. The 17th day of the month of Tammuz is one such fast. It marks the beginning of three weeks of being "between the straits/bein hametzarim". On that day, we are put on notice. It is now three weeks until Tisha B'Av, that time of the year when we are at our most alienated and exilic. We have just three weeks to get ready for the hard work of teshuvah ahead.