241. Beyond Illusion: Discovering the Most Powerful Spiritual Tool
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Spiritually Hungry Podcast, we explore the profound wisdom of the Zohar—the foundational text of Kabbalah. Rather than offering surface-level
understanding, the Zohar reveals the deeper secrets within the Torah, shifting spiritual practice to true inner transformation. The Zohar isn’t just a book to study; it’s an energetic tool. This episode invites you to reconsider what it means to be on a spiritual path. It’s not just about what you know, but who you’re becoming.
Further Readings:
The Secrets of the Zohar by Michael Berg
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| 0:00.0 | Forget about everything else. Unless you can answer honestly this question, from day to day, |
| 0:13.7 | from week to week, from month to month, are you loving more people more deeply than you're |
| 0:18.3 | on a true spiritual path? Anything else, no matter what else you're doing, if the answer to that question is no, then you're on a true spiritual path. Anything else, no matter what else you're |
| 0:21.8 | doing, if the answer to that question is no, then you're not on a true spiritual path. |
| 0:28.5 | Hello and welcome to spiritually hungry. Today we are going to discuss a very important subject. |
| 0:40.3 | So what if I told you that there was a book that could give you the answers to any single |
| 0:48.0 | question that you have in life, and more than that, even questions you haven't thought of? |
| 0:53.9 | I'd be reading that book. |
| 0:56.9 | You'd be excited, right? |
| 0:58.3 | You'd read it cover to cover. |
| 1:01.0 | Act all, what, 24 volumes of this book? |
| 1:05.5 | So today we're going to talk about the main source of Kabbalistic wisdom. It is a very esoteric, deep, could take you a lifetime to study it, and then you'd only scratch the surface. So this book is called the Zohar. And Mr. Michael, you translated the Zohar from Aramaic to Hebrew to English when you were 21. |
| 1:34.6 | You completed it, 22. |
| 1:36.3 | A little bit older than that. |
| 1:37.2 | I think I started around 18 or so. |
| 1:40.2 | It took around 10 years. |
| 1:41.1 | You got the whole set, the whole 23 volumes. |
| 1:44.1 | That's why I fell in love with you. |
| 1:46.6 | I was so impressed. |
| 1:47.7 | So that's actually what today's podcast is about, why you love me. |
| 1:50.6 | Exactly. |
| 1:51.3 | Okay. |
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