Ebb and Flow with Solomon Ezra

Solomon Ezra Berezin
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Ebb and Flow, like the chassidic concept of Ratzo V’Shuv (running and returning), aims to provide you with the principles and practices, wisdom and willpower, insights and inspiration, and empowerment to access your higher vision, internalize it, and express it to the world. This podcast integrates Holistic Wellness and Hasidic Jewish Wisdom, so we can each thrive in body, mind, and soul. Each episode, each guest, and each story is another key to express this truth, as well as to open our eyes to the revealed goodness in the world.

  1. 99: The Inner Work Behind The Flow State | George Mumford

    FEB 9

    99: The Inner Work Behind The Flow State | George Mumford

    Show Notes ​Intro and how I came across The Mindful Athlete​A little about George’ journey growing up to training the top athletes​Correlations between ideas in Unlocked with chassidic teachings​George’s concept of G-d​Prayer, meditation, and study​George’s connection with Chassidic Jewish Teachings​Anxiety and Freedom are two sides of the same coin​Connecting with the Divine, with oneself​All his teachers are jewish​Individual and collective prayers​Connecting pressure moments in sports with life moments and routines​Use the rules but not to be ruled by the rules. He told Kobe: the best way to score is not to try to score​Internal rhythm inside each of us.​Accessing the quiet place inside of you​Begin with yourself but not too preoccupied with yourself​One size does not fit all​Flow Triggers​See things in new and fresh ways​Growth mode and allowing things to happen​Trusting the inner voice​Pray and act as if your prayer is already answered​Distinguishing between a nudge from the soul or the body resisting change?​The body will guide you when too tight or too lose​Coming out of silence and stillness​Observe reactions uncritically​Reset, reboot, renew​Trying to get rid of tension is creating tension

    1h 13m
  2. 98: Journey to Oneness: Merging Torah, Chassidus, and New-Age Spiritual Teachings | Moshe Gersht

    10/09/2024

    98: Journey to Oneness: Merging Torah, Chassidus, and New-Age Spiritual Teachings | Moshe Gersht

    Topics of Discussion Background and what led to where he is now Religious Growth and affiliation, Chabad Learning Torah but far from Truth Learning Chassidus and going to therapy Finding the right therapist Jewish Chassidic teachings and New-age Spiritual thought leaders Day job Torah, side hustle Spiritual self-help When he knew it was time to do more than studying in yeshiva Letting go of fear Do all spiritual paths lead to the same end-goal? Does it mean I can choose a different place and get to the same place? As far as spirit is concerned, G-d is found in all places. So everywhere is the path to G-d. Torah is not about this is the only way to find an enlightened perspective because it can be found in many places. What is the uniqueness of Torah? Judaism begins where Buddhism leaves off Believing in the Mount Sinai experience of receiving the Torah Other practices may have some filter keeping someone from the Unified Truth - Ohr Ein Sof His deepest spiritual experiences were in Torah The Oneness is available to everyone and for everyone If you’re looking for relaxation or co-create and manifest things there are modalities. But if you’re looking to return to Self, that’s the placeless The goal of all is to reach Source consciousness and then internalize it and reflect It in this world The path to G-d is for everybody, but Torah is not necessarily for everybody “Your incarnation is the blueprint for your liberation” - Ram Das. Why Ram Das didn’t find enlightenment in Judaism. He said no one put Kabbalah and Chassidus in front of him You don’t need to look somewhere else to find the enlightenment space Your life is not a mistake. Everything that led to where you are now is for a higher purpose The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s push for mivtzoim (helping a fellow Jew with Mitzvahs). Putting on tefillin is water for your thirsty soul One mitzvah. One thing at a time. The Hebrew month of Elul and Tishrei "It’s all the same to Me" "The Three Conditions" G-d is not found in the noise If you really want to know G-d you have to come to know yourself. How? Do one of three things: meditate, get outside of a world-view of taking and give instead, change your priority of doing to just being - quiet, service, being

    56 min
  3. 97: A Path Forward: Wisdom and Guidance for Today from the Lubavitcher Rebbe | Nechama Shusterman

    09/18/2024

    97: A Path Forward: Wisdom and Guidance for Today from the Lubavitcher Rebbe | Nechama Shusterman

    Show Notes: Nechama’s background and getting into the podcast Main Ideas and Models the Rebbe taught in these last years Tools the Rebbe taught us - Learning from Shabbos Getting in the Flow The donkey of Bilaam like our bodies - we beat it up. Feeling this so much being in yeshiva. If your body is saying No, Hashem is saying No What is it you’re seeing body that I don’t see? What is it you’re telling me? Listen to Nechama Shusterman of A Path Forward podcast about Rebbe’s sichos 1991/92 https://www.listennotes.com/da/podcasts/a-path-forward-nechama-schusterman-hPsrDdqibcj/

    1h 5m
  4. 96: Breath, Prayer, and Chassidus: Elevating Your Life with Rabbi Chay Amar

    08/14/2024

    96: Breath, Prayer, and Chassidus: Elevating Your Life with Rabbi Chay Amar

    Show Notes: Rabbi Aamr’s background and how he got into meditative prayer and breathwork Purpose of breath-work and meditation Difference between Davenen (prayer) and meditation Thinking Chassidus means to ask: What you learned, how does it relate to your personal life? Mittler Rebbe Derech Chayim - you should not stray after your hearts and then your eyes? Not eyes then heart? A person only sees with his eyes what he desires with his heart. “The world was created with 10 maamarim, or sayings.” Why not 1 maamar? Lehibarot (to create) comes from the word briut (health). A chassidic explanation: With one maamar you can be healthy. Types of meditation Chassidic Discourses that change the way you look at things Living with a chassidic discourse and not just reading it Whats the best hochlata, or resolution you can take? Just do it. Elevating your self with Chassidus A person only sees with his eyes what his heart desires What he teaches today with breathwork and meditation Preparing the keli, the vessel to receive, then bringing in ideas of chassidus that will attach you to G-d’s unity Why does meditation have to be before davenen? Why not in the middle of the day? The Friedeker Rebbe says that once one contemplates, he taps into and unveils one’s emotions, having unveiled emotions without something to keep a person focused, like prayer, or something practical, it can leave it open, which then can lead to a not-positive place. All the growth in human potential and performance is a direct result of chassidus being introduced in the world Chakras - sounds like the hebrew word sheker (lie), Reiki from the hebrew word reik (emptiness) Experiment to see the aura around a person - seeing an aura around a person with tefillin, and a woman after a mikveh, spiritual bath The depths of the highest level and the depths of the abyss, where a person gets energy from unholy forces Some things might seem wonderful but who says it’s from a kedusha, holiness What is the source of it from? Rebbe to a Jew: G-d is what He needs to be to other people, but to the Jew it’s the attachment through Torah and mitzvahs His personal experience with transformational breath in Israel with a elderly man Using the healing work as a temporary passageway to something higher Sharpening your Saw Learning the Rebbe’s sichas, or short talk like chassidic discourses Take your time and learn to know Being in the Zone means my inside and my outside are in balance, it comes from Chassidus Breathing deeply frees a person’s mind Spirit of Moshiach is the breath of air Transformational breathwork that forces a person to reach deeper areas in the body where oxygen did not get Writing your vision on paper and watching it unfold Getting out in order to return better I’m running from You to You What 12/13 Tammuz is and Rabbi Amar’s personal experience with the Rebbe mesirat nefesh, self sacrifice. Authenticity of Torah continuing Freedom is not a place on the map, it is a state of mind. Wealth is about giving.

    1h 10m
  5. 95: From Hoops to Healing: A Journey of Resilience, Spirituality, and Balance with Doron Sheffer

    07/24/2024

    95: From Hoops to Healing: A Journey of Resilience, Spirituality, and Balance with Doron Sheffer

    background growing up and bball regimen Being the tall guy in school Mental performance tips The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Journey to South America and India during and after playing Soul searching, from Buddhism to Shamanism to Judaism Coming back to Judaism and Torah All to find balance way to live life in body, mind, and soul. Bottomline to be a Mensch - work on our values and good deeds Struggles through recovering from Cancer Growing up in a “secular” Judaism family Why young Israeli’s travel to far east, 2 reasons: The Torah can help you or it can do the opposite depending what you do with it. Sam Chayiim Sam Mavet What led him to re-explore Torah Judaism? Difference between Mitzvahs between Man and G-d, and Mitzvahs between Man and Man Mitzvahs between Man and G-d are very individual. Playing alongside Ray Allen and the quote: Some people want it to happen, others wish it would happen, but only a few make it happen Mensch.V.P Book: Making it happen without trying to force an outcome When to act and when to let go An indication of being balance is our physical and mental situation - he’s happy and healthy The Torah is everything but black and white “Not to climb so high on the tree, and not to run from taking responsibility” Connection with October 7 Putting basketball in a healthy and balanced way Coming back after cancer to the same ball but a different ball game. Playing in a natural and free way Heaven and Hell are mainly in the head. When he changed himself, the game changed with him Greif to Growth project: https://www.doronsheffer.com/from-grief Hyuli Healing center Website: https://www.doronsheffer.com/about Becoming the Most Valuable Player in the Game of Life Win-Win businesses Playing ball without score We lose ourselves when we compare ourselves with others. Finding one’s center and the special talents Basketball in Messianic Times The Ball is in Our Hands

    49 min

  6. 06/23/2024 · BONUS

    Opening Our Eyes to Health and Unity, and Embracing the Future Now

    Class given on the topics: The Rebbe often said, "the messiah is here we just have to open our eyes," Preventative medicine Unity consciousness Health in Messianic times Listening to the body Eyes open and eyes closed is one Living as if our future is here now

    26 min
  7. 94: The Jewish Path to Self-Transcendence | Rabbi Moshe Genuth

    05/15/2024

    94: The Jewish Path to Self-Transcendence | Rabbi Moshe Genuth

    - Rabbi Genuth’s background - Meeting Rav Ginsburg - Rav Ginsburg’s teachings - The meaning of Bittul (self transcendence) - Shiflus (lowliness) - Drawing G-d more into the picture and myself to the side - Admitting one’s shortcomings is really a strength - What your wife is telling you is a metaphor for what HaShem is telling you - Egomania - where all problems start from - Story of a student of the Alter Rebbe on a merry go round - Importance of meditation - Alef Bet Gimmel (ABC) from Rav Ginsburg - Know thy self - or not? - Messiah comes when you have “when our attention is diverted - Praising the work, not the result - What is the true satisfaction of doing something? The Simcha of doing it! - Chassidic approach to meditating to break a habit - Fingernails represent residual emotions - Who is the world about? Who’s in the center? - Can you feel that gam Zu letova - this too is good? - The time you’re ready to get married is when you’re ready to invest in others - It’s not that I want. It’s that HaShem commands me.

    1h 16m
  8. 93: Breath of the Soul | Adam Klasner

    04/17/2024

    93: Breath of the Soul | Adam Klasner

    Show Notes: Background and how Adam got into breathwork and leading Anochi Workshops Background with personal development, Tony Robbins retreats The Call of the Shofar Concern of idol worship with these events? Is it real or a fear? Aseh Lecha Rav - make for yourself a mentor Giving tough decisions over to someone who is taking accountability for your spiritual health Acquire for yourself a friend to hold you accountable Everything good in those places comes from Torah - Friedeker (Previous) Rebbe Discerning if the resistance is the body resisting change, or if it’s actually a nudge from your soul to do something else? Emotions are the mirror of the soul. It does not have words. The soul is not limited to words, it nudges you. Become in touch with that communication. Song is connected to the soul. Meditation, breath-work, and prayer Talking through breathwork and discomforts that may arise The tool of breathwork and what it’s used for Tools vs mitzvahs (commandments) A spiritual practice can only be G-d given Life calls us into different experiences. Finding G-d even in the places we think He is less available. Thinker of the thoughts Recognize the inner chatter around what you’re doing A person should always be soft like a reed, and he should not be stiff like a cedar — Gemara Taanis 20 Response flexibility Find the truth of every situation

    54 min
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Ebb and Flow, like the chassidic concept of Ratzo V’Shuv (running and returning), aims to provide you with the principles and practices, wisdom and willpower, insights and inspiration, and empowerment to access your higher vision, internalize it, and express it to the world. This podcast integrates Holistic Wellness and Hasidic Jewish Wisdom, so we can each thrive in body, mind, and soul. Each episode, each guest, and each story is another key to express this truth, as well as to open our eyes to the revealed goodness in the world.

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