R’ JOEY ROSENFELD
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A Therapeutic Journey Through the Loss of Identity, Madness, and the Rediscovery of Self
An exploration of Rebbe Nachman's timeless tale, revealing the journey through identity.
Sukkos and Rebbe Nachman's Tale of the Seven Beggars
Five Yom Kippur Reflections on Yearning, Concealment, Shame, and Holy Helplessness
Tohu deKedushah and the Hope That Is Born Beyond Hope
Rosh Hashanah, the Lost Diamond, and the Secret of Beginning Again
Moving from Preparation and Reflection into the Realm of Experience Itself
Walking One's Own Path
A Short Commentary on R' Shimon Lavi's Piyyut Bar Yochai
The Healing Medicine of Pnimiyus HaTorah
The Ten Sefirot and the Emergence of the Whole From Within the Parts
The Healing Medicine of Pnimiyus HaTorah
A Revolution of Healing
Deah Chochma L’Nafshecha 5765
What it can Teach Us About Holy Destabilization
A Pesach Companion
The Hidden Goodness of Tisha B’Av and the Secret of the Tzimtzum
An Elul Companion
From the Gaon and Chassid R' Hillel Paritcher z"ya | No. 4
Panim and Achorayim
Navigating the Infinite through the Zohar, the reach of human desire, and the secret of faith
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Revealing ourselves through concealment and a lovesickness beyond words
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Noach, the moon, and the reality of deficiency
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Torah and tefillah, Chochma and Malchus — and why this teaching opens the sefer
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I Broke the Aleph: A Meditation on the Unity Hidden Within the Split
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Finding God Beyond the Festivities
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Mapping the descent of the soul, the psychology of spiritual addiction, and the ascent to unfelt pleasure
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Tzimtzum, the Kav, and the Kabbalistic Mechanics of Hope
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A Philosophical Framework for the Inner World of Addiction, Synthesizing Jewish Mysticism and Modern Psychology
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Navigating the Kabbalistic Mechanics of Infinite Space, the Trace, and Human Empathy
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Reimagining Elul: The Path of Empathy, Laughter, and Unreasonable Joy
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The Hidden Architecture of Rosh Hashanah
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Unlocking the Secret of Hischadshus and the Architecture of the Present
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Mapping the Cosmic Blueprints of the Arizal
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A Path Towards Practical Avodah: Navigating the Mind, the Heart, and the Threshold of Reality
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The Unity of Chochma and Binah in Revealing the Ultimate Purpose of Chochma and Bittul
Weekly Parsha teachings on the Zohar HaKadosh
The Hidden Light of the North and the Gifts that Emerge From Within Concealment
Weekly Parsha teachings on the Zohar HaKadosh
The Heart Feels What the Mind Can’t Grasp
Weekly Parsha teachings on the Zohar HaKadosh
The Small Alef and The Desire of Hashem to Dwell Within the Lowest Realm
Weekly Parsha teachings on the Zohar HaKadosh
The Soul of Moshe Within Each and Every One of Us
Weekly Parsha teachings on the Zohar HaKadosh
The Radical Affirmation of Goodness and the Glowing Trace of Purim’s Light
Weekly Parsha teachings on the Zohar HaKadosh
The Path Beyond Anger — Rebbe Shimon and the Wise Man From the Desert: When Chochma Meets Binah
Weekly Parsha teachings on the Zohar HaKadosh
Hidden In Plain Sight - Safra D’Tzniyuta, the Gra, and the Impossible Light of Concealment
Weekly Parsha teachings on the Zohar HaKadosh
Saba D’Mishpatim: The Playfulness of Torah and the Wonder of Questioning
Weekly Parsha teachings on the Zohar HaKadosh
Revealing the Profound Significance of that Which Appears Insignificant
Weekly Parsha teachings on the Zohar HaKadosh
Part 1: Uniting the Light of Chochma and the Vessels of Binah Together as One Part 2: The Frightening Secret of Yichud in Times of Smallness and the Light of Atik
Weekly Parsha teachings on the Zohar HaKadosh
Rei’ach Begadav: The Secret Scent of Gan Eden
Weekly Parsha teachings on the Zohar HaKadosh
Colors Seen and Unseen, Eyes Opened and Closed
Weekly Parsha teachings on the Zohar HaKadosh
A reflection on carrying the wholeness of Shabbos into the ordinary week and turning darkness toward light.
A meditation on the limits of intellect and the unsettling Talmudic story of Rabbah and Rabbi Zeira.
A reflection on two kinds of lack: a break that asks for repair and a void that cannot simply be filled.
A reflection on Hamlet's question of being and nonbeing, and the difficulty of facing it honestly.
A meditation on despair, wonder, and the possibility of redemption beyond familiar limits.
A reflection on the Baal Shem Tov's teaching about seeing our own incompleteness in others, read alongside Freud.
A meditation on why some people seek difficulty to make life feel meaningful and how goodness may be found beyond struggle.
A reflection on encounters with the Divine in strange places, wilderness, and exile.
A meditation on how absence and opposition can belong to an experience of wholeness.
A Passover-night reflection on hospitality, freedom, and the disorder that unsettles fixed ideas of redemption.
A meditation on the soul's hidden essence and its expression through thought, speech, and action.
A reflection on the apparent order of time and the desire that unsettles it.
A meditation on retreating to the familiar when the outside world threatens a fragile sense of wholeness.
A reflection on home, shelter, and what it means to dwell safely in the world.
A meditation on interrupted journeys and the possibility of a path through what seems impassable.
A reflection on Freud's shift from an outside account of trauma toward the conflicts within the self.
A meditation on essence, revelation, and the many ways an experience appears to us.
A reflection on wandering, forgotten home, and the light concealed within exile.
A meditation on the body, the face, and the presence of another person beyond words.
A reflection on writing and silence at the margins of established thought.
A meditation on creation, inscription, and erasure through the opening words of the Zohar.
A reflection on shelter and the spiritual meaning of dwelling within the Mishkan.
A meditation on Moses, the forty-ninth gate of wisdom, and the limits that remain even at the edge of understanding.
A reflection on creation, inscription, and the Zohar's image of an engraving in supernal purity.
A brief meditation on love, mortality, and Sukkot.
A short reflection on the desire for oblivion.
A brief poetic meditation on seeking through darkness.
A reflection on the search for transcendence and what opens when we look closer to our own world.
A Pesach reflection on the paradox of desire and satisfaction in the experience of matzah.
A meditation on the separation of the waters and the longing that follows their lost unity.
A reflection on light, darkness, and the experience of being at home in the world.
A meditation on a teaching of R. Moshe Rosenstein about finding calm within turmoil.
A reflection on a story of Reb Baruch of Mezibuz and a pupil who comes to him in distress.
A reflection on Rav Kook's thought and the spiritual stirrings connected with alcoholism.
Notes on R. Yitzchak Meir Morgenstern's teachings about Taanis 30b and the writings of the Arizal.
An extended presentation of two points from R. Yitzchak Meir Morgenstern on understanding Divine unity.
A story of a young mystic and his teacher opens a meditation on living in this world.
A reflection on Rebbe Nachman's teaching, the relationship between carrying and being carried, and addiction.
A reflection on Rebbe Nachman's teachings alongside the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.
A meditation on the first step of recovery, powerlessness, and the recognition of lack.
A reflection on Rebbe Nachman's spiritual seeker and the questions that arise before a void.
A meditation on the blind beggar in Rebbe Nachman's tale and the yearning of those who remember his kindness.
A reflection on Sukkot, welcoming guests, and Rebbe Nachman's story of the Seven Beggars.
A presentation of R. Avraham ben R. Nachman's eighteen principles for reading Likutei Moharan.
The first meditation in a series on the exile of language and speech.
A meditation on Babel and speech that loses its intention.
A reflection on words losing their ability to convey the thing they name.
A brief meditation on brokenness within the exile of language.
A meditation on the Zohar's image of inscription, with letters and words forming meaning from emptiness.
A meditation on the soul's hidden essence and its expression through thought, speech, and action.
A reflection on the Zohar, longing, and the work of rising from a felt lack of wholeness.
A meditation on a meeting with a stranger in the Zohar and the possibility opened by that encounter.
A reflection on R. Yitzchak's encounter with a father and his sons in the Zohar, and what it means to be the other.
A remembrance of R. Shalom Sharabi, the Yemenite kabbalist known as the Rashash, on the anniversary of his death.
A reflection on addiction as an inner and spiritual experience beyond a diagnostic label.
A reflection drawn from recovery work on what the experience of addiction can reveal to others.
A meditation on the historical split between the Kotzker and the Izhbitzer and its spiritual meaning.
A reflection on R. Tzadok Ha-Kohen's teaching about Purim, work, and the meaning of excess.
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