"The Resonance of Jerusalem" (TISHA B'AV - Rabbi Steinsaltz, obm)
TISHA B'AV 2026: (July 22, Sunset - July 23, Nightfall)
Yahrzeit of the Holy Ari (5 Menachem-AV)
"A Kind Suffering; A Hidden Good" (The Three Weeks)
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This Week's Torah Studies
"Audio-Visual-Connections" (Vaet'chanan)
"Shabbat of Vision" (Devarim)
Pirkei Avot: Outside Israel: Cycle 3, Week 15, Chapter 3
Israel: Cycle 3, Week 16, Chapter 4
Current, Recent & Upcoming Jewish Holidays and special occasions:
"Dancing in the Moonlight" (Fifteenth of Av)
"Kitvei Arizal - the Writings of the Holy Ari (5 Menachem-AV)
Yahrzeit of the Ramak (23 Tammuz)
"Deeds of Kindness with Mystical Intentions" (RAMAK)
"Three Narrow Weeks": 17 Tammuz - Tisha b'Av (July 2-23)
"The Fast Day This Week" (17 Tammuz)
"The Arrest (story#347) and Liberation (story#1021) of the Sixth Lubavitch Rebbe" (12-13 Tammuz)
The Vision of the Divine 'Chariot' of the Prophet Yehezkiel (Tammuz 5)
"The Yahrzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe" (Tammuz 3)
"Walk and See" (Sivan-Tammuz)
"600000 Root Souls" (Shavuot)
"An Angelic Visitation" (Shavuot story)
Kabbalah-Chasidut insights for recent weekly Torah readings:
"The Healing of Hearing by Seeing" (Devarim)
"The 42 Journeys of Our Lives" (Massai)
"Holy Pleasures" (Mattot)
"Brotherly Love" (Pinchas)
"Seeing With a Blinded Eye" (Balak)
"Saving Lives" (Chukat)
"Mouth-to-Mouth " (Korach)
"Praying at Ancestral Graves" (Shelach)
"Blow Those Trumpets" (Baha'alotecha - Lubavitcher Rebbe)
"Fasting While Eating" (Naso)
"Blessing from the Heart" (Bamidbar - Zohar)"
ARCHIVES:
TAMMUZ 5786
"The Arres t(story#347) and Liberation (story#1021) of the Sixth Lubavitch Rebbe" (12-13 Tammuz)
The Vision of the Divine 'Chariot' of the Prophet Yehezkiel (5 Tammuz)
"The Yahrzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe" (3 Tammuz)
SIVAN 5786
A Site to Behold" (Shavuot)
IYAR 5786
"The Lag B'Omer Departure of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai"
"Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and the Angels" (Lag b'Omer - "Holiday Discourses" series)
NISSAN 5786 "When G-d Told Us Not to Pray!" (7th Pesach)
"The Secret of Splitting the Sea" (7th Pesach- Holiday Discourses series)
"The Teacher and the King" (8th Pesach)
"Throw A Frog At Story Time" (Pesach-Zohar)
"The Ten Plagues in Our Personal Lives" (Pesach Seder)
"The anniversary of the birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe"
"Blessed Seder Preparations" (Shabbat HaGadol - the Piaseczno Rebbe)
"The Original New Moon" (Rosh Chodesh NISSAN)
"This Month's for You" (Shabbat HaChodesh)
Annual Blessing on Blossoming Fruit Trees (month of Nisan)
Previous Months' Holidays and Special Occasions:
ADAR 5786
"The Red Calf in Kabbalah" (Shabbat Parah)
"Spiritual Insights for some Purim Mitzvot"
"Purim and the Secret of Wine"
"Behind the Masks" (Purim)
"Waking the King" (Purim)
"Discovering Queen Esther" (Purim)
"Fallen King" (Purim)
"Lots of Luck" (Purim - Holiday Discourses series)
"Erasing Amalek" (Shabbat Zachor - Chassidic Masters series)
"The Month of Mazal" (Adar)
TEVET-SHVAT 5786
"The Small Silver Coin of Redemption" (Shabbat Shekalim)
Tu b'Shvat - "The Jewish New Year for Trees"
A Tu B'Shevat Fruit Cocktail" (Tu b'Shvat - Zohar)
"Tu B'Shvat Seder in Your Family"
"Tu B'Shvat Seder in Your Dreams"
"Fruit Trees and the Jews" (Tu b'Shvat)
"Offer Yourself" (Yud Shvat -'Basi l'Gani', ch.2)
"Fast Day on the Tenth of the Tenth" (Tevet)
KISLEV 5786
"From Sinai to the Internet" (Chanuka)
Meditation on the Chanukah Candle (Chanuka)
Chanukah Secrets (Chanuka - Holiday Discourses series)
"The Rosh Hashana of Chasidut" (Yud-Tes Kislev)
"A Tale of Two Stories" (Yud-Tes Kislev)
"The Revolutionary Rebbe" (Yud Kislev)
"The Aftermath of Freedom" (Yud-Tes Kislev)
"Echoes of Abraham & Sarah" (Rosh Chodesh Kislev)
"Yaakov vs. Esau in Kabbalah (Erev Rosh Chodesh & Toldot, Vayeitzei, Vayishlach)
TISHREI 5786
"What is a Soul" - (Bereshis)
The Grand Finale Holiday: (Simchat Torah)
"The Humble Willow" (Sukkot: Hoshana Rabba)
"A Delivery to the Nations" (Bat Ayin - Sukkot)
Uttering THE Name" (Yom Kippur)
"The Shofar" - Ramban (Rosh Hashana)
The Two-Day Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana)
"The Baal Shem Tov meets the Moshiach" (Rosh Hashana)
ELUL 5785
"The Baal Shem Tov meets the Moshiach" (Chai Elul - Rosh Hashana)
"Ten Principles of the Baal Shem Tov" (Chai Elul)
"Forgive Us, Please" (ELUL - Selichot)
"ELUL: The Final Month" (ELUL)
"With the King in the Field" (Elul - Holiday Discourses series)
"Compassion and Light (Elul - Holiday Discourses series)
TAMMUZ & MENACHEM_AV 5785
"Tu b'Av and the Full Moon" (Fifteenth of Av)
"Tisha b'Av" [Sunday, August 2 (sunset) - August 3 (nightfall)]
"Shabbat of Vision" (Devarim - - Erev Tisha b'Av)
"Ari Basics": the Teachings of the Holy Ari (5 Menachem-AV)
"The Three Weeks Until Tisha b'Av" ( 17 Tammuz - 9 Av)
"The Fast Day of the Seventeenth of Tammuz" (17 Tammuz)
"New Moon, New Light" (Rosh Chodesh)
"Kabbalah and the Eastern Religions"
"Kabbala and Magic"
"Kabbalah Soul Music"
"Kabbalah and the Mitzvot for Gentiles"
Yaakov vs. Esau in Kabbalah"
"Deeds of Kindness with Added Mystical Intentions"
"The Female Adam"
"Ten + Ten = Ten" (Ten Commandments <-> Ten Utterances / "Let There Be")
"Zohar - Authorship"
"Ari Basics" - the Teachings of the Holy Ari
LECHA DODI: An original, rhyming, accurate translation of the popular Shabbat evening prayer-song, with commentary
Chasidic Masters Series on each Weekly Reading
Pirkei Avot: chapter 6 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) Inroductory teaching , Concluding teaching
And, for more on the Weekly Reading and the upcoming holiday, see our KabbalaOnline site: Zohar ~ Ari ~ Classic Mystical Commentators ~ Chasidic Masters ~ Chabad Discourses ~ The Rebbe's Chumash
"All Your Heart and Soul" (Netzavim)
"The Multiple Souls of Adam" (Vayelech)
"A Heaven-Inspired Torah Code" (Ha'azinu: Ramban)
"Mystic Math" (Zot HaBracha - Chasidic Masters series)
Pirkei Avot: chapter 1, ch.2, ch.3, ch.4, ch.5, ch.6
"Kitvei Arizal - the Writings of the Holy Ari
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