November 30, 2025 • 30 mins
What if the biggest force holding you back is hiding in plain sight—inside your own thoughts, reactions, and excuses?
This week’s episode dives into one of the most transformative Kabbalistic teachings: recognizing and overcoming the “shadow,” the inner opponent that disguises itself as your voice, your logic, and even your comfort.
In this deeply practical and eye-opening conversation, we explore how the opponent blinds us, tricks us, and keeps us from connecting to our soul’s power. With clear tools, revealing examples, and the spiritual energy of the week supporting heightened awareness, you’ll learn how to expose the subtle inner lies that drain your peace, dim your potential, and derail your purpose.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
• How the opponent disguises itself and manipulates your thoughts
• Why discomfort is often a divine compass pointing toward your purpose
• The link between emotional disturbance and hidden internal sabotage
• How to shift from judgment and avoidance to clarity and empowerment
• The key to reclaiming your peace, potential, and spiritual strength
When you learn to identify the voice that keeps you small, stuck, or reactive, you reclaim the power to rise, choose differently, and access the miracles meant for you. This is a week to see clearly, act courageously, and step into the next level of who you came to this world to be.
This week’s episode dives into one of the most transformative Kabbalistic teachings: recognizing and overcoming the “shadow,” the inner opponent that disguises itself as your voice, your logic, and even your comfort.
In this deeply practical and eye-opening conversation, we explore how the opponent blinds us, tricks us, and keeps us from connecting to our soul’s power. With clear tools, revealing examples, and the spiritual energy of the week supporting heightened awareness, you’ll learn how to expose the subtle inner lies that drain your peace, dim your potential, and derail your purpose.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
• How the opponent disguises itself and manipulates your thoughts
• Why discomfort is often a divine compass pointing toward your purpose
• The link between emotional disturbance and hidden internal sabotage
• How to shift from judgment and avoidance to clarity and empowerment
• The key to reclaiming your peace, potential, and spiritual strength
When you learn to identify the voice that keeps you small, stuck, or reactive, you reclaim the power to rise, choose differently, and access the miracles meant for you. This is a week to see clearly, act courageously, and step into the next level of who you came to this world to be.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Good morning everyone, good evening, good afternoon wherever you are,
and welcome to this week's Weekly Energy Boost. My name
is Elisheva, and today Aton and I are breaking down
the secrets to facing your shadow. And if you've been
listening for any amount of time, you know that in
Kabbalah we call the shadow, the opponent, the ego satan.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
But this week is really.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
One of those powerfully powerful packed weeks where we get
the support and the awareness to see so clearly the
way that our own personal opponent blinds us, tricks us,
gets us to think it's us or that it's someone else.
And I'm so excited to share these not only teachings, secrets,
(00:56):
but also practical examples of how our opponent not only
hides within us, but also hides from us our strengths,
our gifts, and our greatest opportunities for growth. Weekly Energy
Boost is a seven day spiritual weather forecast where we
provide our listeners with the most practical and powerful tools
to navigate the coming seven days. We do that by
(01:18):
gleaning through the wisdom of Kabbalah and extracting the tips,
the tools, and the teachings that are going to serve
our listeners most not only this week, but literally any week,
any day, anytime of our lives, and because we have
this unique opportunity to focus in on again. One thing
I always caution myself about when bringing up this topic
(01:40):
is when when people learn about the concept of the
opponent in our classes, in the books, it's very easy
afterwards to take that knowledge and look at the world
around you and say, oh, that's my husband is definitely
in control of his or being controlled by his opponent. Oh,
you know, my mother and law is definitely, you know,
(02:01):
manipulated by her opponent.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
That's her opponent.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
The goal of these teachings is to reflect inward and
to use them on ourselves, not to weaponize them and
use them on others. This is definitely one of those
concepts that changes how you look at the world and
how you look at how people operate. But the most
important value that it has is it can change.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
How you live your life. So, Atan, how do you
how do you want to begin this conversation?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
So I'm excited about this conversation, and I'm excited about
the energy of this week that gives all of us
the strength to expose the lies of the opponent. Within
and by doing so, being able to access our soul,
access our light, and leverage that awareness towards miracles in
(02:56):
a growth because of the one of the important statement
I would love to share, which is very very essential
cabalistic principles. While all of us have an amazing, beautiful
soul and we have endless potentials and endless light within us,
in order to be able to access that light, I
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need to overcome the opponent within in Each one of
us have different journey in this world, and that opponent
manifests itself in different ways. The opponent is the force
that when we are listening to it, and most of
(03:41):
the day weire is listening to the opponent. So we
naturally gravitated towards selfishness, reactivity, self doubts, worries insecurity, judging others,
not accepting reality, not seeing our soul, not seeing the
good in others, seeing two good in others. Something is
wrong with me. So we all have it. So number one,
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to know that the Creator created the opponent in order
to test and elevate humanity. That's our job, that's our journey.
So today will be dedicated some tools around revealing the
lie of the opponent and what is the practice. But
before I would love to share a story from the Torah,
(04:26):
a story from the Torah that in this weekly portion
that described the fight, the war, the wrestling between Jacob
and the negative angel, the wrestling all night until the morning,
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and Jacob won. That angel that represents own opponent, that's
the decordifying the tour or couldn't control Jacob and he
asked Jacob, please release me, and Jacob share said, before
I release you, I would like to know your name,
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and that angel representing the opponent within answered why do
you need to know my name?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And you released him, so the angel didn't really answer
you just answered with another question, why do you know what?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You need to know my name? And one of the
amazing lessons that roth Berg shared is when Jacob asked
the angel, in order to teach humanity, what what what's
your name? Name represents? And what is your essence? What
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is your strategy? How do you manipulate mankind? What's your
main tricks? And the angel slash the opponent answer, actually,
my main strategy, I do not want people to know
my name. I'm always hidden. If it will be so
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clear that every second of our day will see, Eh,
that's my opponent. I'm judging someone, I'm upset by something.
We are blinded. And the fact that we know that
I'm blinded and I need to hack that system of
not seeing the opponent within, that's a good beginning. Is
(06:50):
always hiding. So now we want to share with you
tools and examples. How do you recognize in the course
of a day the opponent within? Because recognizing it and
then going the opposite of the direction the opponent takes us,
(07:16):
that's what allows us to actually extract power, light, strength,
miracles accessing the next level. So what would be the
steps Elisheva you would recommend for me?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Personally?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
The teaching that really shifted me into.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
A more.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I don't think the word is aggressive, but at least
more active role in chasing down my opponent and being
more clear and aware of its effect on me was
the idea that if I want to if if I
want to do what my soul came to do, if
(08:04):
I want to fulfill my soul's purpose in this lifetime,
the best indicator of the what I'm meant to do
is the things that make me uncomfortable. That if I
if I don't want to do something. And it sounds
a little sadistic, But if I don't want to do something,
if I'm apprehensive, if I'm i'm I, I come up when
(08:28):
I when I come up with the reasons to put
it off, to tell someone else to do it, to
pass the buck, to avoid I know that's my my
opponent telling me stay safe, stay comfortable, don't make effort,
your effort is enough. You're you're you're not you know
those those catchphrases other people are doing.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Worse, right, Like you're not that bad?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
That that that voice that really I think that the
opponent is so afraid of us being fearless, being powerful,
being strong for me at least, And I know the
voice of the opponent is going to show up differently
for every individual, but maybe by us sharing different modes,
we can reach everybody out there who's listening and help
(09:16):
them to identify there is definitely a focus for the
opponent to.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Keep us stuck and to keep us still.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
So when you hear that voice right telling you don't bother,
it's not worth it, you can't make a difference, You're
not that impactful.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
What's the big deal.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
There's so many all of those stay small and stay safe.
Suggestions come from the voice of the opponent.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I love it. So tool number one that you share,
ask yourself a question, maybe at the end of the day,
based on what happened today or the beginning of the day,
towards the coming day, what am I avoiding? What's conversation
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I'm avoiding? What investment of energy I'm avoiding, What confrontation
I'm avoiding? What commitment avoiding? There's a constant voice, subtle
voice of the opponent, belief of the opponent's suggestion to
avoid doing or not doing something. So that will be
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the first tool. I would like to go to another tool,
and then we'll give practical example. Every time we don't
feel at peace, it's a hidden hint that the opponent
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is controlling me through my own thoughts, because we know
the opponent operating many levels and belief systems in thoughts.
So I would like to speak a little bit about thoughts.
So so I'm upset, I'm anxious, I'm bothered, And let's
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start with interactions with other people. You see someone doing
something that potters you, you just judge individual that is
not relating to you, or you judge someone that is
relating to you. We all day long have moments that
(11:43):
I'm set off and I'm disturbed and I'm not at peace,
And it doesn't have to be major reactivity. It can
be just I'm off, I'm bothered, I'm upset. So every
time I am with someone else, I always pause and
(12:05):
go back to my thoughts and asking myself, what is
the thought that causes me to be disturbed now? And
if you're really honest with yourself, the thought is it
shouldn't be this way. It's thoughts of the opposite of
accepting that reality in front of me is exactly the
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way it should be. Because every time I believe the
thought they should have done it, they should have been
more thoughtful. I don't like the way they've done it.
Already have done it that thought. I don't like what
they've done. They should have done better. They must change,
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They must understand me. They don't get it. That thought
by itself, when I believe in it causing me pain.
It's very simple. Any suffering on experiencing from emotional or
physical start with the thought of the opponent within me
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that causes me to have lack of acceptance of the
present reality. If I've all ever thought, it's exactly that's
how they behave, that's who they are. I might need
to need to share something and to contribute something and
maybe to to have discussion with them, But first they
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shouldn't have done it. That thoughts by itself, when I
believe in it cause me suffering. So any suffering that
of that first question my thoughts how I see life?
And then there's a second layer. The second layer, h
why the pa of that person disturbing me? What is
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the specific thing about what they said, what they've done,
what bothers me about them that can teach me lesson
about myself. So I'll give fast two examples. So the
person that I know just shared with me how it
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is upsetting that he revealed the person that is dating
cares too much and attached too much the relationship about
the fact that he has a lot of money, and
(14:50):
it was revealed to him that that's a major factor
that she one things she's attracted to you. So so there's
two layers, and we spoke about layer number one. Maybe
maybe she's attracted to the money too much. Maybe not.
(15:15):
You're not sure because we're not subjective. Nevertheless, is that
thought she wants my money, helping you to be at
peace or not. And I'm not suggesting be blind who
is next to you, but just first reflect she wants
my money? What as it does to your heart? Closing it?
(15:37):
She wants my god, she wants my money. So actually
the opponent the first thing making the other person you opponent?
She is who she is. I'm not sure this relationship
will go through part of my life. Is I have money,
Let's see, I'm open. Of course I want a sole connection.
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But they go to the thought she wants my money.
She wants my money, closing my heart, causing me to
be more judgmental, creating cold energy. That's number one deeper
layer and asking the question, is it the first time
that you think, or you believe, or you see or
you recognize the person next to you? Actually, she only
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wants my money, he said no, So ask yourself a question.
If there's a pattern, what does it teach you about yourself?
Because we would like to learn about my own opponent.
Now you focus on their opponent, my own opponent. I
want to open myself for truth home What does it
teach you about yourself? Is there something there that you
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can learn about your own opponent. Forget about them, let
me work on myself. And he does say, wow, I
realize I don't have enough respect to the energy, to
the love, to the contribution and bring to the table.
So actually, in my own mind, is the money that
I made becomes my part of my identity? Hmmm? How
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can you cleanse that? Are you in touch? How beautiful
your soul is? Maybe you need to have a deeper respect.
Is it part of your opponent when you look at
every situation that you're presenting this as your If you
say it or not, it doesn't matter, but in your mind,
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you're presenting yourself as part of your business card. I'm successful,
I have a lot of money I accomplish and that
was an eye opening. So let me work on cleansing
that and come to the table more open. So every
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time we.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Are disturbed by anything during the course of the day,
it's not the situation that disturb me.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
It's the opponent. It's a hint of the opponent blocking
me to connect with my soul. Any story you want
to share.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I'm smiling. There's two that came to my mind just
from the last few weeks. I was talking to a
student also and a while ago, a few months ago,
and she had the opportunity to travel with her family
to a wedding of another family member.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
So they flew together.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
On a plane and she noticed how much more respectful
the flight crew was to her parents than to her. Now,
it's triggering her already. We've spoken about it before that
people treat her that she's younger than she is. She's
she looks about ten years younger than she is, and
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it's bothering her.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
She wants to be treated like an adults at a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Of people will be excited about it.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
That's the other One of the things about the opponent
is that what my opponent does to me and the
challenges it presents me with would be easy for you
because it's not your opponent. It's my opponent. So you know,
I'm giggling. I would love to be treated ten years
younger than I am. We're talking about it, what does
it mean, what does it bring up? And trying to
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apply a higher level of consciousness to the situation. A
few meetings later, she brings the situation she's kind of
holding back in certain areas of her life because she's
not getting and again, wasn't so obvious. We broke it
down after a conversation that it's really you know, she's
afraid of what her parents are going to say or think.
(19:42):
How are they going to treat her differently, how they
might criticize or ridicule her, And different things came out
that she is, you know, she's looking to her parents
for medical advice, for career advice, for relationship advice.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
And I said to her, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
F that just a few weeks ago we were talking
about how you want to be treated like the mature
adult that you are, but at the same time, you
utilize the gift of your parents in the way that
a younger person would. Right, It's a blessing to have
your parents and your life, and they care about you
and they're interested in you. And at the same time,
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what can you learn from this? Do you want to
be the mature adult? And so when you said that
that I should be treated with more respect, I should
be treated as a responsible adult. And then at the
same time, behind that unrest, behind that trigger, lies a secret,
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a diamond that's asking to be polished and transformed. I
can be that mature, responsible adult. You know what's also
funny is I think it was last week. We have
a Kabbalah one in the center in Los Angeles with
more than two hundred people and was raining cats and dogs,
which was great for southern California. But about forty people
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didn't come to class last week. That's how the rain
affects people in Los Angeles. So the teacher of the
class said, how many of you looked out look at
the at the weather forecast before coming tonight and said, oh,
maybe I should stay, Maybe I.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Should, I should It's not work.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I can listen to the recording, but nonetheless you got
here right obviously, About fifty percent of the class raised
their hand some people. Then he said, how many of
you didn't rain? Didn't even factor it, You didn't even
think about it. You just came here. So he used
that as an example because for some people are deeply
triggered and bothered. Those people didn't show up to class
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at all because of the rain. Some people were triggered
and managed to overcome it, and some people didn't have
the trigger at all. So part of I think the
the understanding that the cabalist give us is your triggers
and your challenges that your opponent presents. You with our
tailor made for your growth and your greatness. It's very
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easy to look at a package. I mean, I'm listening
to what you shared before, and I'm sure people are saying,
I wish people would be attracted to me because I'm
so wealthy, Right, I would love that problem. It's not
a contest, it's not a competition. Our competition is actually
the current version of ourselves. How can we be a
(22:31):
more elevated, more expansive, higher consciousness version of ourselves versus
competing with someone else's opponents. Right, it's very easy to
think other people have it easier than I do. I
wish I had someone else's problems. We have to know,
and this is one of those essential teachings. The creation
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of the opponent is divine. It is for our benefit
and for our growth and for our goth good. And
that the idea that even in the tour it's called
an angel. It's the the Cabalysts teach that when the
Creator created the world, the Creator assigned an angel to
be the catalyst of that negative force so that we,
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according to our own wishes, would become co creators of
our reality. It's really by transcending and overcoming that voice
that we become who we're meant to be.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
So it's very easy to wish.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
I didn't have it, or I had something else, or
you know those The grass is always greener because we're
perceiving the other person's grass through the filter of our opponent.
So I think that it's important to go into this
week as we were going to have heightened awareness of
that voice, to make sure that we're not using it
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in the wrong way to almost be envious of other
people's opponents. We want to focus on the work that
our soul and the creator decided it is our focus
for this lifetime and not be distracted by the rest
of the noise.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Beautiful, so let me just go to it. Because we
spoke a lot about every time that I'm bothered and
I'm not feeling the flow of peace within me, it's
a hint there's some internal opponent actually playing with me.
But let me go the opposite way. Let's say you
have an amazing day, nothing bothers you. Everything seemed to
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be amazing and flowing. Is the opponent there the way
for us to climb to our next level of growth
of accessing the light of our soul in a greater
way and need to overcome the opponent within. If we
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think for a second that the opponent is off duty,
it's part of the lie of the opponent. Doesn't mean
I need to be anxious, and I'm not suggesting don't
enjoy the moment and don't appreciate the moment bad. Sometimes
the opponent manifest itself as being into my own little
(25:16):
babble and don't desire the next level of growth in
my life. Sometimes the opponent manifest itself being so stuck
in my own peaceful feeling and I don't have the
empathy and feeling the pain of people that close to
me and praying for them and asking them and reaching
out to them. Sometimes I'm settling for less while my
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potential is so much bigger, and I'm settling for less
with my own accomplishment and my own sense of I'm
being recognized and appreciated by others. That's heaven for me, God, please,
That's the only thing I want to maintain in my life.
Everybody loves me and everything is okay. So the opponent
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is tricky. While we did not come to this world
to be in anxiety, the opponent negativity, something is wrong
with me. No, Actually, part of overcoming the opponent is
in the absent downs. Let's try to maintain state of joy.
But there's always next level. There's always next level. When
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things amazing, pause, appreciate where this amazing flow come from,
and ask questions, what's the next level? I want to
unlock the next level? When things will be horrible, you
just complain about him and judging them. Pause for a second.
What are you complaining? It's your own complaints that causing
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you actually pain. You only issuld. You don't accept reality
and you don't learn the inner lessons within. So that's
what we're asking all of us. Do you want real,
more joy fulfillment, revealing your potential, go to the next
level of your life. You need to be willing to
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face the opponent within that is hiding today, and that's
part of the daily prayer. I want to connect with
my potential. I want to do what I came to
do in this world, and I want to reveal more
light and more positivity and connecting to my purpose today.
But please the Creator give me the strength their awareness
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and removing my blindfold to actually see the areas that
I manipulated. My negative thoughts, my fears, my judgment, my avoidance,
blind to see with the need to change and all
(28:02):
of that. Like Michael Berkshire the other Week is said
in one end, don't settle for less, go to the
next level. But part of the job to go to
the next level is be willing to dig and to expose.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I think if we all take everything you just shared,
the world is going to look dramatically different. And I
think maybe the most important difference is how we feel.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Say, you spend a lot of time talking today about
that feeling of disturbed, right, bothered, irritated, annoyed. I know
sometimes I have it a day, nothing major, but I
come home and I'm like agitated and I don't even
remember why. And I stop and I realized, Wow, I've
been thinking these intrusive thoughts and they kind of got
out of hand. And I don't want my energy to
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be that way. I don't want to show up that
way in the world, for my family, for my friends,
for my community. So I think even just making that shift,
that awareness of what gets us into that place and
how the moment we catch ourselves is the moment we
flip the switch, right, we take back the control. Who's
driving right now changes the whole scenario, regardless regarding obviously,
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we want to make sure that we're responsible for our
words and our actions when we're agitated. But the moment
we flip the switch, the light turns back on and
we can go back to the concerted effort that we're making,
as you said, to have more light, more connection, more blessings,
and especially in this month of miracles, the more we
go against that robotic, reactive nature, the greater we'll experience.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Miracles in our lives.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
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Good morning everyone, good evening, good afternoon wherever you are,
and welcome to this week's Weekly Energy Boost. My name
is Elisheva, and today Aton and I are breaking down
the secrets to facing your shadow. And if you've been
listening for any amount of time, you know that in
Kabbalah we call the shadow, the opponent, the ego satan.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
But this week is really.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
One of those powerfully powerful packed weeks where we get
the support and the awareness to see so clearly the
way that our own personal opponent blinds us, tricks us,
gets us to think it's us or that it's someone else.
And I'm so excited to share these not only teachings, secrets,
(00:56):
but also practical examples of how our opponent not only
hides within us, but also hides from us our strengths,
our gifts, and our greatest opportunities for growth. Weekly Energy
Boost is a seven day spiritual weather forecast where we
provide our listeners with the most practical and powerful tools
to navigate the coming seven days. We do that by
(01:18):
gleaning through the wisdom of Kabbalah and extracting the tips,
the tools, and the teachings that are going to serve
our listeners most not only this week, but literally any week,
any day, anytime of our lives, and because we have
this unique opportunity to focus in on again. One thing
I always caution myself about when bringing up this topic
(01:40):
is when when people learn about the concept of the
opponent in our classes, in the books, it's very easy
afterwards to take that knowledge and look at the world
around you and say, oh, that's my husband is definitely
in control of his or being controlled by his opponent. Oh,
you know, my mother and law is definitely, you know,
(02:01):
manipulated by her opponent.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
That's her opponent.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
The goal of these teachings is to reflect inward and
to use them on ourselves, not to weaponize them and
use them on others. This is definitely one of those
concepts that changes how you look at the world and
how you look at how people operate. But the most
important value that it has is it can change.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
How you live your life. So, Atan, how do you
how do you want to begin this conversation?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
So I'm excited about this conversation, and I'm excited about
the energy of this week that gives all of us
the strength to expose the lies of the opponent. Within
and by doing so, being able to access our soul,
access our light, and leverage that awareness towards miracles in
(02:56):
a growth because of the one of the important statement
I would love to share, which is very very essential
cabalistic principles. While all of us have an amazing, beautiful
soul and we have endless potentials and endless light within us,
in order to be able to access that light, I
(03:20):
need to overcome the opponent within in Each one of
us have different journey in this world, and that opponent
manifests itself in different ways. The opponent is the force
that when we are listening to it, and most of
(03:41):
the day weire is listening to the opponent. So we
naturally gravitated towards selfishness, reactivity, self doubts, worries insecurity, judging others,
not accepting reality, not seeing our soul, not seeing the
good in others, seeing two good in others. Something is
wrong with me. So we all have it. So number one,
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to know that the Creator created the opponent in order
to test and elevate humanity. That's our job, that's our journey.
So today will be dedicated some tools around revealing the
lie of the opponent and what is the practice. But
before I would love to share a story from the Torah,
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a story from the Torah that in this weekly portion
that described the fight, the war, the wrestling between Jacob
and the negative angel, the wrestling all night until the morning,
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and Jacob won. That angel that represents own opponent, that's
the decordifying the tour or couldn't control Jacob and he
asked Jacob, please release me, and Jacob share said, before
I release you, I would like to know your name,
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and that angel representing the opponent within answered why do
you need to know my name?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And you released him, so the angel didn't really answer
you just answered with another question, why do you know what?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You need to know my name? And one of the
amazing lessons that roth Berg shared is when Jacob asked
the angel, in order to teach humanity, what what what's
your name? Name represents? And what is your essence? What
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is your strategy? How do you manipulate mankind? What's your
main tricks? And the angel slash the opponent answer, actually,
my main strategy, I do not want people to know
my name. I'm always hidden. If it will be so
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clear that every second of our day will see, Eh,
that's my opponent. I'm judging someone, I'm upset by something.
We are blinded. And the fact that we know that
I'm blinded and I need to hack that system of
not seeing the opponent within, that's a good beginning. Is
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always hiding. So now we want to share with you
tools and examples. How do you recognize in the course
of a day the opponent within? Because recognizing it and
then going the opposite of the direction the opponent takes us,
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that's what allows us to actually extract power, light, strength,
miracles accessing the next level. So what would be the
steps Elisheva you would recommend for me?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Personally?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
The teaching that really shifted me into.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
A more.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I don't think the word is aggressive, but at least
more active role in chasing down my opponent and being
more clear and aware of its effect on me was
the idea that if I want to if if I
want to do what my soul came to do, if
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I want to fulfill my soul's purpose in this lifetime,
the best indicator of the what I'm meant to do
is the things that make me uncomfortable. That if I
if I don't want to do something. And it sounds
a little sadistic, But if I don't want to do something,
if I'm apprehensive, if I'm i'm I, I come up when
(08:28):
I when I come up with the reasons to put
it off, to tell someone else to do it, to
pass the buck, to avoid I know that's my my
opponent telling me stay safe, stay comfortable, don't make effort,
your effort is enough. You're you're you're not you know
those those catchphrases other people are doing.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Worse, right, Like you're not that bad?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
That that that voice that really I think that the
opponent is so afraid of us being fearless, being powerful,
being strong for me at least, And I know the
voice of the opponent is going to show up differently
for every individual, but maybe by us sharing different modes,
we can reach everybody out there who's listening and help
(09:16):
them to identify there is definitely a focus for the
opponent to.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Keep us stuck and to keep us still.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
So when you hear that voice right telling you don't bother,
it's not worth it, you can't make a difference, You're
not that impactful.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
What's the big deal.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
There's so many all of those stay small and stay safe.
Suggestions come from the voice of the opponent.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I love it. So tool number one that you share,
ask yourself a question, maybe at the end of the day,
based on what happened today or the beginning of the day,
towards the coming day, what am I avoiding? What's conversation
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I'm avoiding? What investment of energy I'm avoiding, What confrontation
I'm avoiding? What commitment avoiding? There's a constant voice, subtle
voice of the opponent, belief of the opponent's suggestion to
avoid doing or not doing something. So that will be
(10:33):
the first tool. I would like to go to another tool,
and then we'll give practical example. Every time we don't
feel at peace, it's a hidden hint that the opponent
(10:58):
is controlling me through my own thoughts, because we know
the opponent operating many levels and belief systems in thoughts.
So I would like to speak a little bit about thoughts.
So so I'm upset, I'm anxious, I'm bothered, And let's
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start with interactions with other people. You see someone doing
something that potters you, you just judge individual that is
not relating to you, or you judge someone that is
relating to you. We all day long have moments that
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I'm set off and I'm disturbed and I'm not at peace,
And it doesn't have to be major reactivity. It can
be just I'm off, I'm bothered, I'm upset. So every
time I am with someone else, I always pause and
(12:05):
go back to my thoughts and asking myself, what is
the thought that causes me to be disturbed now? And
if you're really honest with yourself, the thought is it
shouldn't be this way. It's thoughts of the opposite of
accepting that reality in front of me is exactly the
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way it should be. Because every time I believe the
thought they should have done it, they should have been
more thoughtful. I don't like the way they've done it.
Already have done it that thought. I don't like what
they've done. They should have done better. They must change,
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They must understand me. They don't get it. That thought
by itself, when I believe in it causing me pain.
It's very simple. Any suffering on experiencing from emotional or
physical start with the thought of the opponent within me
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that causes me to have lack of acceptance of the
present reality. If I've all ever thought, it's exactly that's
how they behave, that's who they are. I might need
to need to share something and to contribute something and
maybe to to have discussion with them, But first they
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shouldn't have done it. That thoughts by itself, when I
believe in it cause me suffering. So any suffering that
of that first question my thoughts how I see life?
And then there's a second layer. The second layer, h
why the pa of that person disturbing me? What is
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the specific thing about what they said, what they've done,
what bothers me about them that can teach me lesson
about myself. So I'll give fast two examples. So the
person that I know just shared with me how it
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is upsetting that he revealed the person that is dating
cares too much and attached too much the relationship about
the fact that he has a lot of money, and
(14:50):
it was revealed to him that that's a major factor
that she one things she's attracted to you. So so there's
two layers, and we spoke about layer number one. Maybe
maybe she's attracted to the money too much. Maybe not.
(15:15):
You're not sure because we're not subjective. Nevertheless, is that
thought she wants my money, helping you to be at
peace or not. And I'm not suggesting be blind who
is next to you, but just first reflect she wants
my money? What as it does to your heart? Closing it?
(15:37):
She wants my god, she wants my money. So actually
the opponent the first thing making the other person you opponent?
She is who she is. I'm not sure this relationship
will go through part of my life. Is I have money,
Let's see, I'm open. Of course I want a sole connection.
(15:59):
But they go to the thought she wants my money.
She wants my money, closing my heart, causing me to
be more judgmental, creating cold energy. That's number one deeper
layer and asking the question, is it the first time
that you think, or you believe, or you see or
you recognize the person next to you? Actually, she only
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wants my money, he said no, So ask yourself a question.
If there's a pattern, what does it teach you about yourself?
Because we would like to learn about my own opponent.
Now you focus on their opponent, my own opponent. I
want to open myself for truth home What does it
teach you about yourself? Is there something there that you
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can learn about your own opponent. Forget about them, let
me work on myself. And he does say, wow, I
realize I don't have enough respect to the energy, to
the love, to the contribution and bring to the table.
So actually, in my own mind, is the money that
I made becomes my part of my identity? Hmmm? How
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can you cleanse that? Are you in touch? How beautiful
your soul is? Maybe you need to have a deeper respect.
Is it part of your opponent when you look at
every situation that you're presenting this as your If you
say it or not, it doesn't matter, but in your mind,
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you're presenting yourself as part of your business card. I'm successful,
I have a lot of money I accomplish and that
was an eye opening. So let me work on cleansing
that and come to the table more open. So every
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time we.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Are disturbed by anything during the course of the day,
it's not the situation that disturb me.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
It's the opponent. It's a hint of the opponent blocking
me to connect with my soul. Any story you want
to share.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I'm smiling. There's two that came to my mind just
from the last few weeks. I was talking to a
student also and a while ago, a few months ago,
and she had the opportunity to travel with her family
to a wedding of another family member.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
So they flew together.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
On a plane and she noticed how much more respectful
the flight crew was to her parents than to her. Now,
it's triggering her already. We've spoken about it before that
people treat her that she's younger than she is. She's
she looks about ten years younger than she is, and
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it's bothering her.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
She wants to be treated like an adults at a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Of people will be excited about it.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
That's the other One of the things about the opponent
is that what my opponent does to me and the
challenges it presents me with would be easy for you
because it's not your opponent. It's my opponent. So you know,
I'm giggling. I would love to be treated ten years
younger than I am. We're talking about it, what does
it mean, what does it bring up? And trying to
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apply a higher level of consciousness to the situation. A
few meetings later, she brings the situation she's kind of
holding back in certain areas of her life because she's
not getting and again, wasn't so obvious. We broke it
down after a conversation that it's really you know, she's
afraid of what her parents are going to say or think.
(19:42):
How are they going to treat her differently, how they
might criticize or ridicule her, And different things came out
that she is, you know, she's looking to her parents
for medical advice, for career advice, for relationship advice.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
And I said to her, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
F that just a few weeks ago we were talking
about how you want to be treated like the mature
adult that you are, but at the same time, you
utilize the gift of your parents in the way that
a younger person would. Right, It's a blessing to have
your parents and your life, and they care about you
and they're interested in you. And at the same time,
(20:22):
what can you learn from this? Do you want to
be the mature adult? And so when you said that
that I should be treated with more respect, I should
be treated as a responsible adult. And then at the
same time, behind that unrest, behind that trigger, lies a secret,
(20:43):
a diamond that's asking to be polished and transformed. I
can be that mature, responsible adult. You know what's also
funny is I think it was last week. We have
a Kabbalah one in the center in Los Angeles with
more than two hundred people and was raining cats and dogs,
which was great for southern California. But about forty people
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didn't come to class last week. That's how the rain
affects people in Los Angeles. So the teacher of the
class said, how many of you looked out look at
the at the weather forecast before coming tonight and said, oh,
maybe I should stay, Maybe I.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Should, I should It's not work.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I can listen to the recording, but nonetheless you got
here right obviously, About fifty percent of the class raised
their hand some people. Then he said, how many of
you didn't rain? Didn't even factor it, You didn't even
think about it. You just came here. So he used
that as an example because for some people are deeply
triggered and bothered. Those people didn't show up to class
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at all because of the rain. Some people were triggered
and managed to overcome it, and some people didn't have
the trigger at all. So part of I think the
the understanding that the cabalist give us is your triggers
and your challenges that your opponent presents. You with our
tailor made for your growth and your greatness. It's very
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easy to look at a package. I mean, I'm listening
to what you shared before, and I'm sure people are saying,
I wish people would be attracted to me because I'm
so wealthy, Right, I would love that problem. It's not
a contest, it's not a competition. Our competition is actually
the current version of ourselves. How can we be a
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more elevated, more expansive, higher consciousness version of ourselves versus
competing with someone else's opponents. Right, it's very easy to
think other people have it easier than I do. I
wish I had someone else's problems. We have to know,
and this is one of those essential teachings. The creation
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of the opponent is divine. It is for our benefit
and for our growth and for our goth good. And
that the idea that even in the tour it's called
an angel. It's the the Cabalysts teach that when the
Creator created the world, the Creator assigned an angel to
be the catalyst of that negative force so that we,
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according to our own wishes, would become co creators of
our reality. It's really by transcending and overcoming that voice
that we become who we're meant to be.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
So it's very easy to wish.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
I didn't have it, or I had something else, or
you know those The grass is always greener because we're
perceiving the other person's grass through the filter of our opponent.
So I think that it's important to go into this
week as we were going to have heightened awareness of
that voice, to make sure that we're not using it
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in the wrong way to almost be envious of other
people's opponents. We want to focus on the work that
our soul and the creator decided it is our focus
for this lifetime and not be distracted by the rest
of the noise.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Beautiful, so let me just go to it. Because we
spoke a lot about every time that I'm bothered and
I'm not feeling the flow of peace within me, it's
a hint there's some internal opponent actually playing with me.
But let me go the opposite way. Let's say you
have an amazing day, nothing bothers you. Everything seemed to
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be amazing and flowing. Is the opponent there the way
for us to climb to our next level of growth
of accessing the light of our soul in a greater
way and need to overcome the opponent within. If we
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think for a second that the opponent is off duty,
it's part of the lie of the opponent. Doesn't mean
I need to be anxious, and I'm not suggesting don't
enjoy the moment and don't appreciate the moment bad. Sometimes
the opponent manifest itself as being into my own little
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babble and don't desire the next level of growth in
my life. Sometimes the opponent manifest itself being so stuck
in my own peaceful feeling and I don't have the
empathy and feeling the pain of people that close to
me and praying for them and asking them and reaching
out to them. Sometimes I'm settling for less while my
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potential is so much bigger, and I'm settling for less
with my own accomplishment and my own sense of I'm
being recognized and appreciated by others. That's heaven for me, God, please,
That's the only thing I want to maintain in my life.
Everybody loves me and everything is okay. So the opponent
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is tricky. While we did not come to this world
to be in anxiety, the opponent negativity, something is wrong
with me. No, Actually, part of overcoming the opponent is
in the absent downs. Let's try to maintain state of joy.
But there's always next level. There's always next level. When
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things amazing, pause, appreciate where this amazing flow come from,
and ask questions, what's the next level? I want to
unlock the next level? When things will be horrible, you
just complain about him and judging them. Pause for a second.
What are you complaining? It's your own complaints that causing
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you actually pain. You only issuld. You don't accept reality
and you don't learn the inner lessons within. So that's
what we're asking all of us. Do you want real,
more joy fulfillment, revealing your potential, go to the next
level of your life. You need to be willing to
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face the opponent within that is hiding today, and that's
part of the daily prayer. I want to connect with
my potential. I want to do what I came to
do in this world, and I want to reveal more
light and more positivity and connecting to my purpose today.
But please the Creator give me the strength their awareness
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and removing my blindfold to actually see the areas that
I manipulated. My negative thoughts, my fears, my judgment, my avoidance,
blind to see with the need to change and all
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of that. Like Michael Berkshire the other Week is said
in one end, don't settle for less, go to the
next level. But part of the job to go to
the next level is be willing to dig and to expose.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I think if we all take everything you just shared,
the world is going to look dramatically different. And I
think maybe the most important difference is how we feel.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Say, you spend a lot of time talking today about
that feeling of disturbed, right, bothered, irritated, annoyed. I know
sometimes I have it a day, nothing major, but I
come home and I'm like agitated and I don't even
remember why. And I stop and I realized, Wow, I've
been thinking these intrusive thoughts and they kind of got
out of hand. And I don't want my energy to
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be that way. I don't want to show up that
way in the world, for my family, for my friends,
for my community. So I think even just making that shift,
that awareness of what gets us into that place and
how the moment we catch ourselves is the moment we
flip the switch, right, we take back the control. Who's
driving right now changes the whole scenario, regardless regarding obviously,
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we want to make sure that we're responsible for our
words and our actions when we're agitated. But the moment
we flip the switch, the light turns back on and
we can go back to the concerted effort that we're making,
as you said, to have more light, more connection, more blessings,
and especially in this month of miracles, the more we
go against that robotic, reactive nature, the greater we'll experience.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Miracles in our lives.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
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