Book Smart - Lesson 6
Kabbalah & Chasidism
With Rabbi Ari Sollish
Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on February 22, 2023

Kabbalah is the Torah’s mystical dimension, containing its most powerful and empowering ideas. But for many centuries, the teachings of Kabbalah were carefully guarded secrets, transcribed only in the guise of esoteric terminology and metaphors, and taught only to a small, exclusive circle of mystics in each generation. Chasidism is both an extension of Kabbalah as well as a field of Torah in its own right, revealing the inner “soul” that unites the Torah’s various components and applying its most abstract spiritual teachings in personally meaningful ways.

In this lesson, we survey the history of Kabbalah and Chasidism. We address the question of why these teachings were kept secret, and why and how they were eventually revealed. We then explore one of the core subjects of Kabbalah—the doctrine of the “Ten Sefirot”—beginning with a mysterious passage in the Zohar, followed by a series of Kabbalistic and Chasidic texts that examine the great paradox of G-d’s relationship with us, and the body-soul dichotomy that defines our own lives.

Book Smart - Lesson 6

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

Demystifying Tanya - Lesson 13
With Rabbi Tzvi Freeman
Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Thursday, June 5, 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 13 | Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

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

Torah Studies 5785
Class 30: Parshat Shelach
Stronger Than Angels
Why We Can Thrive Where Even Giants Failed
With Rabbi Ari Sollish
Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Tuesday, June 17, 2025

The spies feared that materialism would overwhelm the Jewish people, just as it had corrupted the fallen angels. But Caleb saw things differently. This class explores why our souls are stronger than angels—and how we can embrace the physical world without losing our spiritual identity.

Torah Studies 5785 - 30 - Shelach: Stronger Than Angels | Rabbi Ari Sollish

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

Kabbalah Café
Know Your Soul - Part 31
Beings From Another Realm
With Rabbi Ari Sollish
Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, June 15, 2025

Souls don’t belong here. They’re celestial beings on a terrestrial mission, sent from Above for a limited time with a sacred task. According to Kabbalah, that mission is nothing less than cosmic repair: to mend the fallout from the primordial “shattering of the vessels.”

But there’s a catch. The soul has to play its part. If it drifts too far into the spiritual, the balance breaks -- heaven outweighs earth, and the mission stalls.

In this session of Kabbalah Café we explore the soul’s tightrope walk between heaven and earth. We uncover how G-d calibrated creation with perfect precision, reveal two surprising dimensions of teshuvah, and unlock the secret to spiritual optimization in a fractured world.

Kabbalah Café: Know Your Soul - 31 - Beings From Another Realm | Rabbi Ari Sollish

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

Gimmel Tammuz Women's Class
How To Lead So Others Will Lead
With Rabbi Ari Sollish
Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, June 29, 2025

One of the first things we did together as a people was sing. But how exactly did three million people sing the same song? 

There are three Talmudic opinions: Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Nechmyah. According to the first, Moses sang the song himself, according to the second, the nation repeated Moses’ song, and according to the third, Moses only opened the song, and it was continued by the people. 

What is the logic behind this argument? It revolves around the question of what is the role of a leader? To inspire loyalty, to create followers, or to craft leaders?

Gimmel Tammuz Women's Class - How To Lead So Others Will Lead - Rabbi Ari Sollish

Torah Studies 5785
Class 32: Parshat Chukat
The Power of Letting Go
Forgiveness, Healing, and the Path to True Unity
Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Does forgiveness mean withholding punishment, or does it require something deeper? This class explores Moses’s response to the people’s rebellion, revealing that true forgiveness restores unity and helps others heal—just as G-d does for us.

Torah Studies 5785 - 32 - Chukat: The Power of Letting Go | Rabbi Ari Sollish

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