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Back to SearchRedeeming the Imagination through Shabbos with Rabbi Pill
Season 7 Episode 228
Imagination is the most destructive power of the human mind—and also its greatest. In this episode, you’ll discover how Shabbos is Hashem’s system fo…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 5: Your Challenges Are Your Kiddush Hashem
Season 7 Episode 227
In this episode, we explore how the very challenges you wish you didn’t have may actually be the place where your greatest purpose lives. Instead of …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 4: Activating Our Inherited Spiritual Strengths
Season 7 Episode 226
In this episode, we explore how life’s challenges are not setbacks or punishments, but invitations to activate strengths already embedded within us. …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Structured Path of Deveikus
Season 7 Episode 225
In this episode, I give you a simple, repeatable roadmap for real deveikus, how to use your mind in the right order so you stop spiraling into anxiet…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 3: Operating Capital, Not Reward
Season 7 Episode 224
In this episode, Rabbi Michael Cohen and I explore a radical idea from Rav Dessler that reframes how we think about success, reward, and mitzvah obse…
4 months ago
Rabbi Akiva: Relentless Perseverance in Torah
Season 7 Episode 223
In this episode of Sages of the Talmud, I’m joined by Morty Roth to explore the life of Rabbi Akiva, one of the most influential figures in Jewish hi…
4 months ago
Episode 2: Redefining Happiness
Season 7 Episode 222
In this episode of Strive for Truth, I explore Rav Eliyahu Dessler’s opening teaching on happiness together with Rabbi Michael Cohen, challenging one…
4 months, 1 week ago
Shevat: Growth Beneath the Surface
Season 7 Episode 221
Just as the zodiac of Shevat, the D’li (bucket), has no value on its own and only matters when it is filled with water and carried to those who need …
4 months, 1 week ago
Episode 1: Rebuilding the Inner Operating System
Season 7 Episode 220
In this opening episode of Strive for Truth, I’m joined by Rabbi Michael Cohen to introduce the work of Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler and to explain why this…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
What This Podcast Is Really About: Six Seasons In
Season 6 Episode 219
After six seasons of conversations, questions, and learning, this episode steps back to clarify what The Shema Podcast has always been about. Torah i…
4 months, 3 weeks ago