S1E9 - Reb Adam Polinovsky

Welcome to the Aseret Podcast, where we learn about character, kindness, wisdom, and virtue from living examples of inspiring people, based on the ethical and moral vision of the Ten Commandments or the Aseret HadDibrot.

As Jews, we are known as the people of the Book, the Torah.

Torah has many parts and pieces that guide our lives. And yet, what is it all about? What uniftes those pieces together? One answer that shines brightly comes from Rebbe Akiva of the 1st century. In the book of Leviticus, it says וְאָֽהַבְתָּ֥ לְרֵעֲךָ֖ כָּמ֑וֹךָ אֲנִ֖י הי Love your neighbour as yourself, I am Hashem And Rebbe Akiva calls this the כְּלָל גָּדוֹל בַּתּוֹרָה A Great Principle of Torah

The essence of our Torah guides us to try and love Hashem and others, and these paths cannot be separated. In the 20th century, there emerged a giant of Torah and Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism, who stressed this point and carved a pathway for it. His name was Rav Yehuda Ashlag zt’l, otherwise known as the Baal HaSulam, the Master the Ladder. Today, Kabbalah in its popular forms, stems from this holy man, and his wisdom.

The path of Ashlagain Kabbalah is the path of bringing Rebbe Akiva’s words to life in every moment of the Torah path. It involves moving from מֵרָצוֹן לְקַבֵּל לְרָצוֹן לְהַשְׁפִּיעַ, from the desire to receive, to the desire to give.

Rav Ashlag passed his Mesorah, his tradition to his son, Rav Baruch Ashlag zt’l, who passed it to Rebbe Avraham Mordechai Gottlieb shlita, who is currently passing it on to our very own guest today, Reb Adam Yitzvhak Polinovsky.

Reb Adam has been learning the inner dimensions of the Torah full-time for 3 years in Telzstone, Israel with the Rebbe.

From growing up in the suburbs, selling laptops at Best Buy, rapping in the underground, meeting Hip-Hop legends and Executive Producers, and the like, he’s thrilled to see where life has taken him and how the deep tools he’s learned along with his life experience is actualizing today through teaching, serving, and having a coaching practice.

Reb Adam reflects with us on the 9th Dibber of not bearing false witness to our neighbour; instead, how do we be a true witness, of love and giving? On the way, you will hear his fascinating story about his journey to truth and learn about this inner Torah, which transforms us from takers to givers.

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