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Torah UnraveledSunday Kolel - The Mistake of Mistakes - Tzvi KilovSunday Kolel
Year 2 - Lecture 10
"The Mistake of Mistakes:
The Beginning of All Avodah According to Chassidus"
With Tzvi Kilov
Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on December 3, 20232023-12-1839 min
Decades From Home - A Podcast About GermanyEp 108: Firecracker FooleryNew year, new episode and we kick off 2023 with a lesson on how to gracefully offer your New Years greetings, Nic discovers that New Year’s Day has a morning as well as a late afternoon, and Dili argues that sleep is the best way to celebrate Silvester.Reports of chaos on the streets of many German cities over leads us to our annual discussion on Germany’s problem with fireworks. Maddeningly, the debate in Germany quickly became a question of migration and integration, and not one of public safety. We question the current narrative, and wonder whet...2023-01-0757 min
"Not A Jungle"Repentance is the True Optimism - #RepentanceWithTzvi | Episode 10Dear Listener,Episode ten of “Repentance w/Tzvi”.Idea: "Repentance with Tzvi", one minute per day Elul vlog (until September 18) on the joys and subtleties of returning to G-d in the Jewish fashion Listen in audio form like the regular podcast, or check out the video below. Feel free to share, subscribe, and, most importantly, enjoy.Yours,Tzvi Get full access to "Not A Jungle" at tzvi.substack.com/subscribe2020-09-0201 min
"Not A Jungle"Morality Needs You, Not Vice Versa - #RepentanceWithTzvi | Episode 9Dear Listener,Episode nine of “Repentance w/Tzvi”.Idea: "Repentance with Tzvi", one minute per day Elul vlog (until September 18) on the joys and subtleties of returning to G-d in the Jewish fashion Listen in audio form like the regular podcast, or check out the video below. Feel free to share, subscribe, and, most importantly, enjoy.Yours,Tzvi Get full access to "Not A Jungle" at tzvi.substack.com/subscribe2020-08-3101 min
"Not A Jungle"Shame vs Guilt vs Teshuva - #RepentanceWithTzvi | Episode 8Dear Listener,Episode eight of “Repentance w/Tzvi”.Idea: "Repentance with Tzvi", one minute per day Elul vlog (until September 18) on the joys and subtleties of returning to G-d in the Jewish fashion Listen in audio form like the regular podcast, or check out the video below. Feel free to share, subscribe, and, most importantly, enjoy.Yours,Tzvi Get full access to "Not A Jungle" at tzvi.substack.com/subscribe2020-08-2801 min
"Not A Jungle"Is Repentance Selfish at a Time Like This? - #RepentanceWithTzvi | Episode 7Dear Listener,Episode seven of “Repentance w/Tzvi”.Idea: "Repentance with Tzvi", one minute per day Elul vlog (until September 18) on the joys and subtleties of returning to G-d in the Jewish fashion Listen in audio form like the regular podcast, or check out the video below. Feel free to share, subscribe, and, most importantly, enjoy.Yours,Tzvi Get full access to "Not A Jungle" at tzvi.substack.com/subscribe2020-08-2701 min
"Not A Jungle"#RepentanceWithTzvi - 6 - Only the Creator Can Truly ForgiveDear Listener,Episode six of “Repentance w/Tzvi”.Idea: "Repentance with Tzvi", one minute per day Elul vlog (until September 18) on the joys and subtleties of returning to G-d in the Jewish fashion Listen in audio form like the regular podcast, or check out the video below. Feel free to share, subscribe, and, most importantly, enjoy.Yours,Tzvi Get full access to "Not A Jungle" at tzvi.substack.com/subscribe2020-08-2601 min
"Not A Jungle"#RepentanceWithTzvi - 5 - Better to Change than CryDear Listener,Episode five of “Repentance w/Tzvi”.Idea: "Repentance with Tzvi", one minute per day Elul vlog (until September 18) on the joys and subtleties of returning to G-d in the Jewish fashion Listen in audio form like the regular podcast, or check out the video below. Feel free to share, subscribe, and, most importantly, enjoy.Yours,Tzvi Get full access to "Not A Jungle" at tzvi.substack.com/subscribe2020-08-2501 min
"Not A Jungle"#RepentanceWithTzvi - 4 - We Can Repent for Our Good DeedsDear Listener,Episode four of “Repentance w/Tzvi”.Idea: "Repentance with Tzvi", one minute per day Elul vlog (until September 18) on the joys and subtleties of returning to G-d in the Jewish fashion Listen in audio form like the regular podcast, or check out the video below. Feel free to share, subscribe, and, most importantly, enjoy.Yours,Tzvi Get full access to "Not A Jungle" at tzvi.substack.com/subscribe2020-08-2400 min
"Not A Jungle"#RepentanceWithTzvi - 3 - Behind the GameDear Listener,Episode three of “Repentance w/Tzvi”.Idea: "Repentance with Tzvi", one minute per day Elul vlog (until September 18) on the joys and subtleties of returning to G-d in the Jewish fashion Listen in audio form like the regular podcast, or check out the video below. Feel free to share, subscribe, and, most importantly, enjoy.Yours,Tzvi Get full access to "Not A Jungle" at tzvi.substack.com/subscribe2020-08-2301 min
"Not A Jungle"#RepentanceWithTzvi - 2 - We Approach the King by Letting GoDear Listener,Here it is, episode two of “Repentance w/Tzvi”.Idea: "Repentance with Tzvi", one minute per day Elul vlog (until September 18) on the joys and subtleties of returning to G-d in the Jewish fashion Listen in audio form like the regular podcast, or check out the video below. Feel free to share, subscribe, and, most importantly, enjoy.Yours,Tzvi Get full access to "Not A Jungle" at tzvi.substack.com/subscribe2020-08-2100 min
"Not A Jungle"#RepentanceWithTzvi - 1 - The King is in the FieldDear Listener,It’s been forever. But I had an idea!Idea: "Repentance with Tzvi", one minute per day Elul vlog (until September 18) on the joys and subtleties of returning to G-d on the Jewish fashion So here it is. Listen in audio form like the regular podcast, or check out the video below. Feel free to share, subscribe, and, most importantly, enjoy.Wishing you a good month,Tzvi Get full access to "Not A Jungle" at tzvi.substack.com/subscribe2020-08-2000 min
"Not A Jungle"Why Smart People Worship IdolsDear Listener,I write to you from the cold of winter, which surely parallels the cold detachment of worldly intellect. True, the mind is powerful enough to know that it cannot know everything, but in general, when not acting as a vessel for faith, the rational intellect is a teribly dangerous tool, able to find multiplicity in any unity, ego in any humility, separation in any togetherness.Trying to fill the emptiness of human existence with the rational intellect is like trying to fix cracked ceramic with an axe. Our emptiness comes from our apartness from...2020-01-2017 min
"Not A Jungle"Incorruptible Jewish IdentityDear Listener,Has the whole world gone mad?Let me start over: The whole world is mad, as the Jews have often suspected. But has the illness grown so severe that the Jews themselves have started accepting it?Left and right, Jews bequeath Jewish identity upon gentiles and deny it to their brothers and sisters. I don’t like it one bit. Not just because the reasons are pathetic, obvious, bald attempts at squaring an ancient and noble tribe with young and faddish tribes. Even worse than declaring Jews to be non-Jews (or vice...2019-12-2613 min
"Not A Jungle"The ConnectionDear Listeners,It’s been a while! First, I was on vacation. And then, I wasn’t. But that’s neither here nor there. Just like the purpose of our universe’s creation. We’re not here to pick a side, nor to pretend that the sides are not separate, but rather to unite them. This is one of the central themes of the central Chassidic holiday, Yud Tes Kislev, that we celebrate this week. The infinite and the finite, faith and intellect, are to be brought together. This is the reason G-d said “Let there...2019-12-1524 min
"Not A Jungle"What is a Soul?Dear Listeners,It’s hard to zero in on what the soul is, despite being a soul. So much of our lives are spent pulling away from ourselves, investing our energies in things patently external to us, and, usually, in the aspects of those things external to them.Before we get into deep forms of worship in which we negate our own being, perhaps we can start simply, as Abraham did, thinking about the being underlying all being. This will set up a solid center position, from which we can tic-tac-toe across and down to the...2019-11-1711 min
"Not A Jungle"The Challenge of UnityDear Listeners,I hope the Fall finds you well! I myself have spiritually scraped my knee, which reminded me of something I wrote a few years ago that I decided to record for you. The Chassidic Masters teach that unity is a most fundamental principle in fixing this universe and represents the ultimate goal, the messianic truth underlying all reality. It is worth dwelling then, for an occasional moment, on the apartness G-d has placed into our world, on the separation we have within us the ability to overcome.I like to think it was just...2019-11-0805 min
"Not A Jungle"Now For Something Completely DifferentDear Listeners,For the third episode of this little enterprise, I present to you something truly different — a discussion on the nature of different-ness. This is an episode I recorded freestyle, as it were, with a little preparation but no notes or rigid structure. It’s longer than if I was reading an essay. As always, I yearn for your comments. Is this better than when I simply read pre-written material?If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe and share.Be holy, and until next time,Tzvi Get full access...2019-10-2717 min
"Not A Jungle"Answers for Every Question; Questions for Every AnswerDearest listener,We have here another episode connected with the holiday of Sukkos. The connection this time is less explicit. It doesn’t talk about the Lulav or the Sukkah or even the book of Koheles. No, this episode is connected with Sukkos because for some reason this time of year I always feel like writing an essay on a teaching of the holy Baal Shem Tov. Something about the fresh fall air, the dew on the schach in the morning, the sun through the trees…it makes me think about the founder of Chassidus as a small...2019-10-2011 min
"Not A Jungle"On the Mysteries of King Solomon and KohelesSince I published the book, people have been asking for audio. “When will you turn your classes into a podcast?” “I don’t read, but I do listen.” “Your essays should publish in audio form for my commute.” Ladies and gentlemen, your prayers are answered.I am opening here on Substack a space for audio recordings on my usual topics: Judaism, the world, &c. Some of these recordings will be audio version of essays I have already written and that appear in my book. Others will be entirely new material, scripted and unscripted. As...2019-10-1308 min