Finding Holiness in the Fragments of Life: The Kabbalah Secret of the Broken Tablets
About this episode
Rabbi Yisroel Bernath discusses the significance of brokenness in relation to holiness through various Jewish teachings.
Why did Moses smash the tablets and why were the broken pieces placed in the Holy of Holies alongside the whole ones? In this heart-open class, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath explores one of the most powerful and surprising teachings in Torah: that brokenness is not the opposite of holiness, it can be its doorway. Drawing on the story of the Golden Calf, the teachings of the Talmud, Midrash, and the Lubavitcher Rebbe, this class reveals how Judaism embraces both the “whole tablets” and the “broken tab...
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