Kabbalah Café: Know Your Soul - 15 - The Day Tragedy Struck | Rabbi Ari Sollish

Kabbalah Café
Know Your Soul - Part 15
“The Day Tragedy Struck”
With Rabbi Ari Sollish
Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on Sunday, January 26, 2025
It was the moment an entire nation had been waiting for. The moment that embodied, in every way, the hopes and dreams of a people that had worked so hard to make it a reality.
This was going to be the day they found acceptance from Above, the day they would finally feel loved and embraced and whole again. Forgiven. At last.
And then, tragedy struck. At the peak of their joy, two of their finest were taken. Smitten, in unimaginable irony, by the very fire that was at the center of their celebration. Only this fire was not the life-affirming kind; this was the life-taking kind.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, there was no shortage of theories and finger-pointing. Humans need reasons; we have an intrinsic need for the inexplicable to make sense. But the most daring of angles comes from the teachings of Kabbalah. The mystical tradition has a way of flipping the apparent on its head. Here, too, tragedy is seen as elevation, retribution as reward. And this tale holds the key to what it means to live life on the razor's edge of the spirit-material divide.
In this unforgettable session of Kabbalah Café we read the story of unimaginable loss through the lens of the Jewish mystics, and gain an entirely new perspective on the meaning of human striving.
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