I'm turning 45 tomorrow! And to celebrate, I wanted to give you a gift - something that has brought new feeling and passion to my soul.
For the last several months, whenever I've come out with a new lesson, I then used AI to turn it into music. I know, we all have mixed feelings about AI! But hear me out.
Every one of these songs has hit me so deeply that it brought tears to my eyes - that was how I knew it was good. (And ask my family, I don't tear up easy!)
These two playlists are from courses I'm teaching through the Mussar Center. Mussar is the Hebrew word for discipline and is basically the lost art of becoming Christlike...or should I say, Messiahlike?
Listen here, and happy birthday to me!
MUSSAR PRACTICES: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDje41vGlZ_LP9EOxsjY6vzn-3_1kjPEG (from this course: https://www.mussar.tv/practices)
HERO'S JOURNEY: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDje41vGlZ_LlinP8XHALl-JgEv86N17Y (from this course: https://www.mussar.tv/journey)
If these songs speak to you and you'd like to join me on the Mussar journey, sign up for texts or emails at https://mussar.org. And I'm not going to lie, the biggest gift you could give me would be to subscribe here and join me for these courses because I really am pouring my heart and soul into them: https://www.mussar.tv/checkout/subscribe/purchase But I won't ask for that because the main point of this message is to share something with YOU that has become truly meaningful to my heart during this last year of my life.
Thanks for celebrating with me!
Izzy Avraham
Holy Language Institute
P.S. You may also be wondering, Mussar Center? What happened to Holy Language Institute? I only teach Mussar on Fridays; for HLI I've been working fulltime for over a year now on a book listing the 713 commandments of the New Testament - which is finally almost ready!
👀 LESSON: https://mussar.tv/videos/change4
🗺️ COURSE: https://mussar.tv/journey
🔴 PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDje41vGlZ_LlinP8XHALl-JgEv86N17Y
❤️ SHARE?
👀 LESSON: https://mussar.tv/videos/change4
🗺️ COURSE: https://mussar.tv/journey
🔴 PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDje41vGlZ_LlinP8XHALl-JgEv86N17Y
❤️ SHARE?
👀 LESSON: https://mussar.tv/videos/change4
🗺️ COURSE: https://mussar.tv/journey
🔴 PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDje41vGlZ_LlinP8XHALl-JgEv86N17Y
❤️ SHARE?
What's the biggest news from the last three months, and what am I most excited about coming into this fall?
What are people saying about our books, for better or worse?
How much money do we have coming in, and where does it go?
I talk about all this, along with acknowledging many of you by name and unveiling new plans I haven't officially talked about yet, in this quarterly update.
Watch here:
And I'd love to hear your feedback and questions in the video comments!
Izzy Avraham
Holy Language Institute
P.S. Congratulations to our newest member DON! And thanks to our most recent donor VERN. And if YOU aren't an active supporter yet, would you include us in your tithe? I'll see and appreciate it so much. Join now: https://holylanguage.tv/checkout/subscribe/purchase or donate: https://holylanguage.com/donate
⏰ 'Daily Commandment' starts today — listen FREE! 1️⃣
The first audio from our new 'Daily Commandment' discipleship program dropped this morning! Listen for yourself here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wJLj_6Eue0 (and tell me if you like how it ends!)
After that check out the questions designed to help you go from hearer to doer. (They're in the episode description and I'll attach them here too.)
I had originally said that each of these audios would only be available for 24 hours but to ensure nobody falls behind we'll keep each up for a couple days.
All of these are from the forthcoming book, 'All That I Commanded You: 713 New Testament Commandments (The Way of Discipleship)'. After it's out we plan to also release a Jewish version, 'Mussar Bible: 713 Mitzvot for Tikkun Olam'.
I'm kickstarting this audio program now because I want this two-year track to begin in the fall, and because this project has only been possible thanks to our members and I wanted to give you back something ...
I can't believe it's already been two weeks since I unveiled the project I've been working on for the last year and a half - a book listing the 713 commandments of the New Testament, along with the verses where they're given and related commands.
If you missed that check out the sampler here: https://www.holylanguage.org/download/713-New-Testament-Commandments.pdf
I can't say how much I appreciate the encouragement and support that poured in since then - and I'm happy to report that not only have I been making steady progress, but the local situation I told you about has also been mostly defused.
The Master's commands are at the heart of our love-relationship with him. They're also our mission - nothing more, nothing less. Yet if you were to ask most believers today to list ALL that we have been commanded, how high would they get before trailing off?
That's why this project is so explosively powerful. It's also why starting this September 1 I'm going to be dropping one audio commandment a day. ...
