Inward with Rabbi Joey Rosenfeld

S5:E1 In this first episode of a new season, Rabbi Joey introduces the Hasidic school of Izhbitz/Radzyn. Beginning with R. Mordechai Yosef Leiner (1801-1854), moving through his son R. Yaakov Leiner (1818-1878) and culminating with his grandson R. Gershon Henoch Leiner of Radzyn (1839-1890); we discuss the origins of this particular strain of Hasidic thought and the significant insight it offers to the (post)modern subject. After reviewing a sample of the critical analysis done on this school of thought and the emphasis that has been placed on particular aspects of this school, Rabbi Joey attempts to delimit our focus on the questions of subjectivity, the human condition and the existential intensity of being human. ***** This podcast is supported in part from a grant from the Hadar Institute. Music is by Zusha. Help support them by purchasing their music. Audio is by David Kwan. 

S4:E12 The end  that is  the beginning.  ***** This podcast is supported in part from a grant from the Hadar Institute. Music is by Zusha. Help support them by purchasing their music. Audio is by David Kwan. 

S4:E11 The quest  for essentiality.  The ability to find  meaning within  the meaningless. 

S4:E10 In the descent away  from the unity of the self  rests the ability to relate  to the outside through unity. 

S4:E9 Compassion and  the revival of lost love. 

S4:E8 Limit setting,  self overcoming  and the laughter of Yitzchak.  Please help us share Rabbi Joey's teaching by taking a moment to fill out our listener survey so we can better understand who is learning along with him, and how we can improve. 

S4:E7 Saying yes to the world,  welcoming the other,  and choosing to see good.  Please help us share Rabbi Joey's teaching by taking a moment to fill out our listener survey so we can better understand who is learning along with him, and how we can improve.   

S4:E6 Without Daat you have nothing, with Daat you have everything.  For our purposes Daat will not be considered an active sefirah but rather an internalized force that animates all other Sefirot. This episode focuses on the role of Daat as the external disclosure of Keter’s interior; the mode of embodied thought associated with Daat; the dialectical sway between connection and separation as embodied in Daat and the different iterations of Daat in the twofold form of “Transcendent Daat” and “Immanent Daat”. While discussing Daat as a stand alone concept we must keep in mind that Daat is neither something nor nothing but rather the impossible combination of both something and nothing and it must therefore be read as a bracketed concept that separates and connects the three upper Sefirot and the lower seven.  Please help us share Rabbi Joey's teaching by taking a moment to fill out our listener survey so we can better understand who is learning along with him, and how we can improve.  

S4:E5 The descent into the particular,  the parts that build the whole, and most importantly the sweetening of harshness in its root. Please help us share Rabbi Joey's teaching by taking a moment to fill out our listener survey so we can better understand who is learning along with him, and how we can improve.

S4:E4  The infinite within the infinitesimal.  The whole within the part,  and most importantly the ability to be ok within the moment.