You get up in the morning, put on tefillin, pray, study the daily Daf Yomi. You observe Shabbat, observe kosher, educate the children. Everything is fine - on the outside. But there are quiet moments when the question arises: Why don't I feel it? Why is everything so technical? Where are the animals, where is the soul, where is God Himself in all these actions?
In a lesson for Lag BaOmer, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson teaches one of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai's greatest secrets - and explains why our generation thirsts for this very thing.
You will discover the surprising difference between the "hearing cell" of the Gemara and the "chest cell" of the Zohar, why the way we perceive reality changes our worship of God, and how stepping outside of ourselves allows us to be a conduit for the infinite light.
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Rabbi Jacobson sorts out the difference between Kabbalah and Hasidism: We will understand why Kabbalah is the spiritual "mathematics" of creation, while Hasidism is the "physics" intended to connect us to the unity of God in a personal, daily, and inner experience.
A lesson that is a personal invitation to begin experiencing Judaism from within - to stop seeing the commandments as a to-do list, and to begin to feel that every moment in life is an encounter with infinity.
