From the Inside Out: With Rivkah Krinsky and Eda Schottenstein

130: The Sefirot — Your Kabbalistic Guide to Feeling, Thinking, and Loving with Rabbi Laibl Wolf

• Rivkah and Eda • Season 2 • Episode 130

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Welcome to a new season of From The Inside Out Podcast with Rivkah and Eda! 
In this time focused on turning inspiration into action during the 49 days from Pesach to Shavuot, we welcome Rabbi Dr. Laibl Wolf. Wolf, a Melbourne-based spiritual teacher blending Chassidus/Kabbalah with psychology, shares his journey from law studies to becoming the first Chabad emissary at the University of Wisconsin in 1969, and later returning to Melbourne at the Rebbe’s directive. He explains the Omer as a yearly “spiral” of spiritual energy for sequential introspection, contemplation, improvement, and change through 49 emotional “shades” of the sefirot, describing how mind guides emotion, how tools can be used by the godly or animal soul, and offering practical examples on balancing chessed and gevurah, managing impulsivity and anger, cultivating positivity (Tracht Gut; Gam Zu Letovah), and Emunah vs. Bitachon, concluding with a guided Modeh Ani meditation.


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Rabbi Laibl Wolf

Rabbi Laibl Wolf is a world-renowned spiritual teacher, author, and counselor who has spent over five decades translating the wisdom of Kabbalah and Chassidus into practical tools for modern living. Personally directed by the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1969 to pioneer Chabad outreach on American college campuses, Rabbi Wolf is now based in Melbourne, Australia, where he serves as a global lecturer, meditation teacher, and mashpia. Through his daily Tanya and Chitas classes, guided meditations, and worldwide speaking engagements, he helps people cultivate emotional mastery, Emunah, and Bitachon through the map of the Sefirot.

Find more resources and tools at: laiblwolf.com 


CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction

05:25 Rabbi Wolf Journey

07:39 Campus Shlichus 1969

11:05 Omer Spiritual Spiral

13:13 49 Emotions Map

17:55 One Emotion At Time

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