Demystifying Tanya - Lesson 9
With Rabbi Tzvi Freeman
Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Thursday, May 8, 2025

The Tanya is a cornerstone of Jewish spirituality, offering profound insights into the nature of the soul, the struggles of human existence, and the path to a purposeful life. In this new weekly series, Rabbi Tzvi Freeman provides a clear and thoughtful exploration of its core ideas, making the text accessible and relevant for modern seekers.

Guided by Rabbi Freeman’s expertise and his masterful new translation of the text, participants will uncover the Tanya’s teachings on topics such as free will, inner conflict, and spiritual growth. The series blends textual study with practical applications, offering tools for navigating life with clarity and intention.

Demystifying Tanya | Lesson 9 | Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

Dave Brisbin 6.8.25
A man asks me about Jesus’ saying that if we believe in him and his works, we’ll do the same and greater works than he. He’s troubled by the verse because he’s not doing the works that Jesus did, let alone greater ones, so does that mean he doesn’t really believe? I ask him what works of Jesus he’s looking to do. Well, it has to be the healings and miracles, right? And therein lies the rub.

The church hasn’t known what to do with this verse for the same reason, usually limiting it to Jesus’ immediate inner circle who performed healings and miracles in the gospels. But if Jesus’ message doesn’t apply to us, why read it? Or maybe we’re just misunderstanding which works Jesus means. Nothing focuses the mind like a deadline, so you can bet the last words a person believes they’ll say to you will be the most crucial they have to offer. Jesus’ last words to his friends were to love each other as he had loved them, that people would know they were his followers by their love. Not theology, ritual, or miracles.

He defined love as love of the enemy—those not of our own tribe, the realization of identity with his Father and everyone encountered, whether family and friends or strangers and outcasts. The works of Jesus were his breaking all ethnic, social, and legal boundaries necessary to establish connection. Healing only happened after connection and may be understood spiritually as the connection itself, the liberation of perfect love.

Pentecost, a symbolic fifty days after Easter, is the moment Jesus’ followers experienced their own spiritual liberation. Their loss at Calvary was the beginning of a wilderness journey that had to be taken without Jesus. As long as they were with him, they continued to think tribally, physically, literally, missing Jesus’ real works. He said it was to their advantage that he go, so they could identify with God’s spirit—always there, but invisible to tribal eyes. 

When they speak that day, and everyone hears them in their own language, what better way to understand their graduation from tribe, from the confines of ethnic identity to God-in-all identity, the real work of Jesus.

Graduating Tribe

Grape Juice From Plastic Thimbles

Demystifying Tanya - Lesson 14
With Rabbi Tzvi Freeman
Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Thursday, June 12, 2025

The Tanya is a cornerstone of Jewish spirituality, offering profound insights into the nature of the soul, the struggles of human existence, and the path to a purposeful life. In this new weekly series, Rabbi Tzvi Freeman provides a clear and thoughtful exploration of its core ideas, making the text accessible and relevant for modern seekers.

Guided by Rabbi Freeman’s expertise and his masterful new translation of the text, participants will uncover the Tanya’s teachings on topics such as free will, inner conflict, and spiritual growth. The series blends textual study with practical applications, offering tools for navigating life with clarity and intention.

Demystifying Tanya | Lesson 14 | Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

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Monthly Contemplations ~ 'Creation' ~ 24 June 2025

Torah Studies 5785
Class 31: Parshat Korach
Love Every Jew, No Exceptions
Why Even the Wicked Deserve Our Love
With Rabbi Ari Sollish
Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Is there ever an exception to the mitzvah of loving your fellow Jew? This class explores Moses’s remarkable love for Dathan and Abiram—his lifelong adversaries—and what it teaches about seeing beyond faults to the hidden goodness in every Jew.

Torah Studies 5785 - 31 - Korach: Love Every Jew, No Exceptions | Rabbi Ari Sollish

Flo Mundial:Above V Below - D.Edwards @GyurmaTent-Chillout-

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Flo Mundial: FlowJam:
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Flo Mundial: Light V Darkness:
https://soundcloud.com/djdedwards/light-v-darkness

Flo Mundial: World Ambient:
https://soundcloud.com/djdedwards/chill-out-mix-downtempo-world-ambient

Flo Mundial : Latin SOSA:
https://soundcloud.com/djdedwards/sounds-of-south-america-sonidos-de-sur-america

Flo Mundial: Bass Flow:
https://soundcloud.com/djdedwards/bass-flow

Flo Mundial: En La Selva
https://soundcloud.com/djdedwards/en-la-selva-dia-noche

Flo Mundial: Downtempo2Houze:
https://soundcloud.com/djdedwards/freezer-burn

CHILLL PLAYLIST:: https://soundcloud.com/djdedwards/sets/chill-chill-out

Above V Below [Flo Mundial]

The night before the ritual that will almost certainly kill her, Raposa receives a vision—not from the poison of Khura’s oleander, but a gentle dream. The spirit of a matronly wolf appears to her. The message is simple and enormous: this life is a gift, even if it ends unfairly.

In Mercenarium, Optimo lets you restructure your entire territory, protecting what’s sacred. In Dragonfruit, it represents genesis, origin, and innocence. You must shelter what matters most, even if you can’t save yourself.

It shimmers with 80s chords and dreamy vocals. A hidden tone lives in the latter third. This was the first track created for The Hymnal, and remains the soul of the record.

LYRICS

Is it all for the fall?

So they say “it’ll pass”
That everything you do, well
They saw it all before
But you see through the veil
Something sounds so good
The same old soul rises
Rises again

I might’ve let it come to this
I’m singing the same set of runes
You see love to be love
To realize that all, only
All you had to do was lose

So what’s the nemesis?
Is it the real thing, or dreams?
Is it even what it seems?
Am I alone? Are you as well?
As far as I can tell
It’s optimal
It’s optimal

You see love to be love
To realize that all, only
All you had to do was lose

Optimo

Kabbalah Café
All for the Sake of Heaven - Part 1
The Magic of Materialism
With Rabbi Ari Sollish
Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, June 22, 2025

What if your next coffee, conversation, or business meeting could unleash fierce divine energy?

Welcome to our new Kabbalah Café series, where we dive into the profound mystical work "All For the Sake of Heaven," a spiritual roadmap that redefines how we engage with the world.

While other paths teach retreat from the material, Kabbalah reveals a deeper truth: the physical isn’t a distraction, it’s a portal. The mundane moments of daily life hold the power to connect us with the Divine, and this series will show you how.

Together, we explore how to elevate ordinary activities like eating, working, and relating, discover inner harmony with self, world, and G-d, and transform physical living into a spiritual mission.

This is practical mysticism at its most powerful -- real, accessible, and deeply relevant.

Kabbalah Café: All for the Sake of Heaven - 1 - The Magic of Materialism | Rabbi Ari Sollish

"... she is the place where the world is held, wordless, in God's waiting."

Mater Dolorosa I

"Unto this Darkness which is beyond Light we pray that we may come, and may attain unto vision through the loss of sight and knowledge, and that in ceasing thus to see or to know we may learn to know that which is beyond all perception and understanding..." 

Mater Dolorosa II

"... and is revealed in Its naked truth to those alone who pass right through the opposition of fair and foul, and pass beyond the topmost altitudes of the holy ascent and leave behind them all divine enlightenment and voices and heavenly utterances and plunge into the Darkness where truly dwells, as saith the Scripture, that One Which is beyond all things."

Mater Dolorosa III

Putting The Pseudo In Dionysius

Pseudo-Dionysius' referenced-yet-unwritten "Outlines of Divinity" is more than mere pseudographia by the pseudonymous. I think it is a pointing out instruction. If what is deemed absent, in the endless end of endless ends and endlessnesses, lends still some small semblance of a semblance of authority, of godliness, of goneness, does it not constitute then a Presence? How is it that we can feel what is not-here just as palpably as we can feel that which is here? In what is absent, just as repletely as in what is present, lies thunderously that being beyond all being, a vibrant silence echoing eternity while we clean our glasses and air fry some salmon and think golly it's hot today and how lucky.  

Outlines Of Divinity

Offerings ~ 9 July 2025

Torah Studies 5785
Class 33: Parshat Balak
The Strength to Surrender
Why Letting Go Is the Ultimate Power
Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Strength is often seen as control, but Judaism defines it as surrendering to something greater. Balaam’s prophecy likens the Jewish people to unshakable mountains, rooted in ancestral strength. This class explores why true power lies in self-sacrifice and choosing holiness over convenience.

Torah Studies 5785 - 33 - Balak: The Strength to Surrender | Rabbi Ari Sollish

"Through these things His incomprehensible presence is shown walking upon those heights of His holy places which are perceived by the mind; and then It breaks forth..."

Antiphon

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Audio podcasts delivered at theeffect church in San Clemente, CA. theeffect is a community of imperfect people working together to find the emotional recovery and spiritual transformation that is theeffect of God’s love by unlearning limiting perceptions, beliefs, and compulsions, and engaging a first century Jesus in a non-religious and transforming way. See more at theeffect.org.

Delivering a wide range of diverse genres & sound for years across live sets-productions-mixes-shows & podcasts. 

Mixing at festivals, in the clubs&pubs world round, broadcasting streams, guest mixes or jamin in the space. Built and branded with the spin of blending all sorts of genres into the sound. That striving passion hopes to take you on a journey with music through all of its sounds from all of its styles. 

House-World-Ambient-Latin-Electro Swing - 
Dark Techno-Tech House - Latin House- HardTechno-Downtempo-Trance-Electro-Drum & Bass-Progressive-Experimental-Tyro-DJ-
Loop Machine-TechPad-Instrumentation-

For all the electronic music lovers, Take a trip through catch some electronic & world music with a unique spin on DJ'ing as a whole.. or so I'd say. 


SOUNDS OF OMINATION/CAN/
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True North with Dave Brisbin is a podcast about the things that can bring you back to center, whether God, spirituality, community or family or all of them. Never esoteric or abstract for its own sake; always practical and full of common sense, we’re interested in exploring the effect of what we believe on our lives and questioning what we believe in light of the deep connection we’re meant to live. Dave Brisbin is an author, speaker, coach, and songwriter. He is the teaching pastor of theeffect, a faith community and recovery ministry in San Clemente, CA and executive director of Encompass Recovery, an addiction treatment center in San Juan Capistrano. For more on finding deeper spiritual expression free from limiting beliefs and behavior, go to davebrisbin.com.

Mythic synthpop for the end of the world.

Anthromancer is the sonic wing of a transmedia myth created by Daniel James Drake—a fusion of game, oracle, and concept album. The debut LP, The Hymnal, scores the fall and rebirth of a fictional civilization, blending icy electronica with poetry into a 13-track spiritual epic.

Our sound is somewhere between The Postal Service, Muse, Aesop Rock, and Nobuo Uematsu, with shades of Röyksopp and our venerable RPG nostalgia. The sound is cinematic, existential, and driven by a hunger to be known.

Support the work through Patreon. Or just listen closely. The secrets are already in the songs.

ambient synth + shortwave theohauntology experiments

New tracks tagged #Mysticism