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Awakening with Rabbi Ami Silver

Join Rabbi Ami as he shares from the wellsprings of Jewish spiritual teaching and practice, and guides us on a path of healing, transformation, and awakening to experiencing the Divine.

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Hidden Teachers: The Women in the Piaseczner Rebbe’s Life

Hidden Teachers: The Women in the Piaseczner Rebbe’s Life

Episode 019 A great grandmother who davened in a tallis and received Hasidim looking for brachot and guidance; another w... Read more

28 Jul 2019

57mins

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Avodat HaTefillah: Hashem Sefatai Tiftach - Standing on Impossible Ground

Avodat HaTefillah: Hashem Sefatai Tiftach - Standing on Impossible Ground

Episode 34 Can we really stand in prayer before our Creator? Is it possible to approach God in our humanness, or do we l... Read more

12 Jan 2020

57mins

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Paradigm Shift (pt.1): The Messianic Evolution

Paradigm Shift (pt.1): The Messianic Evolution

Episode 014  The Baal Shem Tov recorded a conversation with the Mashiach in which he asked, “when will you come?” The an... Read more

23 Jun 2019

53mins

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Avodat HaTefillah: Praying With God

Avodat HaTefillah: Praying With God

Episode 35 In the eyes of the Hasidic masters, we do not pray to God—we pray with God. Join Rav Ami as he guides us thro... Read more

19 Jan 2020

56mins

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Avodat HaTefillah: What is Tefillah?

Avodat HaTefillah: What is Tefillah?

027 We often translate Tefillah as “prayer”, but what is the meaning of this word in its original form? This class explo... Read more

10 Nov 2019

54mins

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Avodah: Makom Meditation - Coming Into Presence

Avodah: Makom Meditation - Coming Into Presence

Rabbi Ami helps support his teaching from this week with a meditative practice.

10 Dec 2019

17mins

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How to Learn Hasidut: Mapping the Soul (pt. 1)

How to Learn Hasidut: Mapping the Soul (pt. 1)

Episode 010 Many people are drawn to Hasidic teachings and spirituality, but few are taught how to engage with these tex... Read more

5 May 2019

57mins

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Avodat HaTefillah: Makom - Entering Divine Space

Avodat HaTefillah: Makom - Entering Divine Space

Episode 31  The Mishnah teaches that the basic orientation to prayer is to bring ourselves into presence, to align ourse... Read more

8 Dec 2019

47mins

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Avodat HaTefillah: Is It a Mitzvah to Pray?

Avodat HaTefillah: Is It a Mitzvah to Pray?

Episode 30  Prayer is the centerpiece of our daily spiritual practice, and as we’ve been exploring in the previous sessi... Read more

1 Dec 2019

57mins

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In Presence

In Presence

Episode 013 There is a Torah that is taught to everyone equally, a Torah that is written in books and can be accessed by... Read more

16 Jun 2019

43mins

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BONUS: From Sefira to Shavuot - Coming Back to Wholeness

BONUS: From Sefira to Shavuot - Coming Back to Wholeness

The path through Sefirat Ha’omer to Shavuot is a process of self-refinement, of coming into contact with the myriad part... Read more

30 May 2019

46mins

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Paradigm Shift (pt.2): Vessels Made of Light

Paradigm Shift (pt.2): Vessels Made of Light

Episode 015  “... and why should the body be considered any less than the mind?... isn’t the primary purpose of Hasidut ... Read more

30 Jun 2019

46mins

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Avodat HaTefillah - The Inner Experience

Avodat HaTefillah - The Inner Experience

Episode 34 While much of the language and forms of prayer tend to be outward-directed, tefillah is an invitation to turn... Read more

5 Jan 2020

1hr 9mins

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BONUS: Shavuot - “So That I May Enjoy You” - Tapping Into Divine Pleasure

BONUS: Shavuot - “So That I May Enjoy You” - Tapping Into Divine Pleasure

"In truth, all pleasure and enjoyment in the world, of any kind, are nothing other than God's own joy and pleasure." — T... Read more

6 Jun 2019

1hr 8mins

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Avodat HaTefillah: A Living Pray-er

Avodat HaTefillah: A Living Pray-er

Episode 28   On this episode of Awakening, Rabbi Ami explores prayer as part of our basic identity as human beings. The ... Read more

24 Nov 2019

54mins

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BONUS: Yom Kippur - Transcending Shame, Transforming Shame

BONUS: Yom Kippur - Transcending Shame, Transforming Shame

The central practice of Yom Kippur is vidui - confession of wrongdoings. What is the goal of this? Is it make us feel gu... Read more

6 Oct 2019

1hr

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The Piaseczner Rebbe’s Biography, Background, and the Torah of the Way

The Piaseczner Rebbe’s Biography, Background, and the Torah of the Way

Episode 026This is the first class Rabbi Ami ever gave in the Piaseczner Rebbe’s writings. It’s a broad introduction to ... Read more

25 Oct 2019

1hr 25mins

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Avodat HaTefillah: The Place of the Heart

Avodat HaTefillah: The Place of the Heart

Episode 32 This week we continue to explore the entryway into tefilla, and look at the heart as the place of prayer, the... Read more

16 Dec 2019

54mins

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Praying and Learning: The Search for Wholeness

Praying and Learning: The Search for Wholeness

Episode 022  In this piece from Derech Hamelech, the Piaseczner Rebbe guides us on the search for wholeness in our spiri... Read more

25 Aug 2019

1hr

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BONUS: Tisha B’Av - Crying God’s Tears

BONUS: Tisha B’Av - Crying God’s Tears

On Tisha B’Av, we ask unanswerable questions. We gaze into the wounds of the world and don’t turn away from the pain. Ra... Read more

10 Aug 2019

1hr 12mins

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