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Rabbi Bernath’s background growing up and becoming a Rabbi Meeting the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, that inspires him till today How he assumed the title “Love Rabbi” Secrets of Matchmaking The hardest job in the world — dating Who am I and what do I bring to the relationship Practical element of being together and of where you’re headed Specific is Terrific Fixed or Flexed - Fixed on and Flexible with For everything non-negotiable, there must be many negotiable 3 I can live with, 3 things I cannot live without Cast a specific not, not a wide net Specific vs narrow-minded Feeling that something is missing in your life 3 Parts of Matchmaking: Introducing, Coaching, Closing 3 types of people: I people, You people, We people Importance of a Mashpia (mentor) Be you and understand you and wherever you are in that moment you will find someone Gemara about searching for your wife like searching for a lost object: it’s the man’s job to search for the wife How much work internally and how much externally The critical person is the mashpia Hashem will give the right words for the Mashpia to say Faith and Trust What to look for in a mashpia (mentor) Kabbalah and Chassidus meditation class he gives You can only have one thought at a time --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/solomon-ezra-berezin/support

Welcome back to the ebb & flow podcast! In this episode is a intro for this season, as well as the intros from the previous seasons. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/solomon-ezra-berezin/support

Class on Women & Messianic Insights, celebrating before redemption, Wisdom of the heart, and anniversary of passing of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson, as well as guided meditation of a yechidus (private audience) with the Lubavitcher Rebbe. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/solomon-ezra-berezin/support

Class delivered at yeshiva about empowerment in the Messianic era. Learning chassidus and following its ways leads a person to realize that at his core is really G-d Himself. Watch/ listen to this class for 3 steps on looking inward and sitting with discomfort to discover the answers you’re looking for. Previous class on the Messianic era: Messiah will come when we least expect it    • Messiah will come when we least expect it --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/solomon-ezra-berezin/support

In honor of completing a full year studying at Hadar HaTorah yeshiva, I gave a class on meditation, Davenen (prayer), the teaching of our Sages (Gemara Sanhedrin 97a), that, “Moshiach will come B’hesech hadaas” (lit. when we aren’t expecting him), and then guided a meditation. • Additionally, this week’s Torah portion is Vayeitze, which was the portion of my bar mitzvah 14 years ago. • May we internalize and open our eyes to being in Jerusalem with Moshiach in a way better than we can imagine. Subscribe & Share! Related Blogs: Are we (T)here yet? : https://www.solomonezra.com/post/are-... 2nd bar mitzvah: https://www.solomonezra.com/post/2nd-... #chassidus #jewishhealthcoach #ebbandflow #unity #podcastclips #jewishholidays #vayeitze #hisbonenus #meditation #visualization #messiah #moshiach --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/solomon-ezra-berezin/support

Show Notes for Part 2 of Interview with Rabbi Pewzner: Goal of chassidus Struggle of the body and the soul What is the Messiah and Who is Messiah? The role of Moshiach, the days of Moshiach What will Moshiach do? The Yechida Effect The Torah was given for Peace (Shalom) Dirah Bitachtonim Who is G-d? We won’t be teaching others because “all with know Me” - 14 minutes The best thing is to be yourself The mission of chassidus is for us to be truly who we are and be at peace with who we are in a way that we can be super active - 16:20 Tools to apply what we learn - Avodas Hashem (how to serve G-d) How can a person really internalize this? — 20 min Chassidic Meditation — 21 m What do you invite in your consciousness once you achieved presence? How to experience the neshama? Neshama (soul) Frequency and ChaBaD approach to uncalm complexities (29:30). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/solomon-ezra-berezin/support

Show Notes: Story and background what is Chassidus Chabad Experiencing *The Pintele Yid -  “*The Jewish Dot” Start off with questions Viewing life not from motivations but based on your identity, which can become your key motivator Chassidus is not to create another denomination. Jewish People are divided enough. Appreciate what it means to be a Jew - 29 min Layers of the soul - the highest being the yechida Rather than it be abstract, chassidus embraces it as something relevant and relatable The Basics of Chassidus --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/solomon-ezra-berezin/support

Show Notes Mentioning a discourse I learned in Guatemala and a personal lesson from it The tool of Meditation Recap of previous 5 episodes 3 kinds of commandments - orientations towards mitzvahs 4 kingdoms - inanimate (mineral), vegetable, animal, and human Yesod - foundation, fundamental The 10 commandments were engraved on a stone How to do a mitzvah like a mineral The word for decree without a reason also means engraved 24:30 What’s the difference between engraved and writing? Become the mitzvah, engraved in your heart Doing mitzvot in the way like a mineral is a great unifier What did the Baal Shemtov love about the simple Jew? 28:55 How to apply this into your daily life? Doing something as you learn, not only doing it once you understand it Unconditional love Is something natural a virtue? Don’t make conditions No need to justify real love Sincere it is what it is vs insincere it is what it is 41:44 There’s nothing more real than what doesn’t need justification Difference between Married and not married Concluding this series 45:30 Life is about intimacy with G-d 50:00 What do purpose of tools become?  At first they were helping you get where you need to be. After the fact, you have gotten them where they need to be. They started off as secular personal stuff, now you’ve turned them into support for mitzvahs. They’ve become part of your Godly life so you’ve elevated them. They need you more than you need them. The essence of Shavuot There’s nothing more comfortable and satisfying when you can just be yourself --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/solomon-ezra-berezin/support

Show Notes: the greater the darkness, the closer to transformation relationship between mind and heart by nature the mind controls everything getting the heart to obey the mind is being healthy how does the heart do its own thing without consulting the mind? It’s like sleepwalking How do we bring back the healthy relationship between mind and heart? animal soul and G-dly soul dynamic each soul has its own mind and emotions you didn’t lose control, you gave yourself permission rationally governed by intelligence and not by emotions dance between mind and heart, the mind must lead “don’t get mystical, don’t get spiritual, just get healthy. A healthy person is the master of his ship.” getting body to neurologically change its behavior changing the animal soul’s mind nothing more powerful than the will to get the body to behave transformation is partly in the mind and partly in the soul when a person feels stuck is when there’s trauma thorough lasting change Getting the mind back in charge if emotions get very inflexible, it is the heart not the mind nothing changes you more than discovering the purpose for which you exist how does the mind affect the heart? What kind of control does it have? it can make the heart a little more flexible the heart can’t think, but it let go. loosening up the emotion emotion is not the final outcome don’t believe everything you feel --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/solomon-ezra-berezin/support

Show notes: introducing today’s topic what’s a stronger motivator - personal benefit or serving a larger cause? Intention or kavana to serve the importance of self-love … healthy or not? don’t confuse the validity of being healthy with the obsession of being healthy Does it make sense to say, “the more you love yourself, the more you’ll love others?” Everyday do something you hate? — Mark Twain Feels right or feels familiar? When Hillel went to eat he said he’s going to feed a healthy body Rigidity comes from self Which is less forgiving? Christianity or Judaism? Not judging you, but measuring what you accomplish for G-d Awkward or Rigid Mussar and religion Can you spread some of your love to others? Human nature is such that you love yourself. The mitzvah is to give some of that love to others What does tzedaka mean? Turn your (self) love outward Don’t assume people don’t love themselves The two most significant days in your life - the day you’re born and th e day you figure out why — Mark Twain Why was I born? Live your life knowing why you were born. feeding others is a pleasure, feeding myself is a chore Have a sense of humor about yourself What’s a good self-image? What’s the best response to how are you? What does Baruch Hashem mean? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/solomon-ezra-berezin/support

Show Notes: relating our episode to Yitzchak digging wells of his father Avraham what are the servants of Yitzchak? Thoughts, speech, action observing and thinking The servants must know their master Who is your master? Know where you’re going to be healthy what it means to be “in alignment with Hashem?” Less about me Beyond my “self” Affirmations and Positive thinking Miracle of affirmation is: I say I am okay even though I think I am not Power of positive words and act of smiling 14:30 - Dig to the living waters (neshama) through the servants, which can move the soul to a better place 16:30 - Don’t stop doing The amazing effect of song 18:15 Never wait until something is right before you let your servants do their work 20:00 intermittent fasting Cause and Effect with eating Is food giving you life or are you putting the food to its use? Who’s the recipient or the actor? 28:40 Eat by conviction, not by taste buds 31:00 Story of Reb Shmuel Munkus Every now and then break the habit of what you’re eating 36:00 Practicing a little self respect Awareness helps... even if not immediately Having what to eat is a blessing and a reward 38:40 What did I do to deserve this meal? 46:20- 47:05 Joke about an atheist Foundation of mindfulness when it comes to food G-d said to eat Never be a servant to a servant --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/solomon-ezra-berezin/support

How do we get healthy? Mindset aspect of health Attitude towards [seeming] problems Nisah means to elevate There is a cause and effect to everything Relationship with food It’s not by bread alone that man lives- don’t become subservient to the food. Mindset #1:  You’re the master. eating for a purpose Tools to help notice if hungry or feeling stressed When you’re feeling down, you eat which means you’re begging the food to give you life - It’s unhealthy to eat when you’re needy Food cannot give you life, it can maintain the life you have You cannot sit by the table with a sour face - Rabbi Friedman’s mother why do we eat in the first place? Mindset #2: I am Healthy Healthy Mindsets are most important than health [25 min] The question is not about how healthy is the food, rather it’s how healthy are you? Food can be Healthful, but food itself is not healthy Be a healthy person - one attracted to food most healthful Eat for a Heavenly purpose - you are Heaven compared to the food. You are what you eat. What you eat becomes what you are. The objective is for the food to become you, not the other way Spiritual side of Anorexia Eat until you’re not hungry, not until you have no appetite. The hunger has to be satisfied, not the capacity Mindset 3: Approach it with enthusiasm Eat less and don’t be picky Healthy attachments Mindset 4: Flexibility What’s my purpose? Power of words and describing situations --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/solomon-ezra-berezin/support