Good morning, everyone, everyone, good evening, good afternoon, wherever you are, and welcome to this week's weekly energy boost.

My name is Elisheva, and I have the privilege this morning of being

joined by Batya Solomon, who is a dear friend and fabulous all-around person but happens to be

one of the senior teachers at the Kabbalah Center of Florida and we will hear all about her

fabulousness shortly. This is a fabulous week for you, for those of you that are finding us for the first time,

because we are delving into perhaps one of the hottest topics on everyone's mind these days,

which is fear.

And the weekly energy boost is a seven-day spiritual energy forecast.

We delve through the wisdom of Kabbalah and share with you weekly the most practical

and powerful wisdom that we can find, not only what we think is interesting and powerful, but also what's working for us

as Kabbalah students and what's working for our students over the years. Batya, I'm sure you've

counseled thousands upon thousands of people. So this is not, I had a great idea on the shower

this morning and I want to share it with everybody. This is not only tried in true wisdom,

but ancient wisdom that we do our best to make modern and relevant and useful. So today we're

talking about what is fear. I'm sure that a lot of people are saying, well, I know what fear is.

It's something I encounter every single day. But Kabbalistically speaking, and on a metaphysical level, we want to

understand what's taking place because over the next few weeks, we're going to learn how to tackle

and transform it. Now, the reason this is really the most appropriate theme for us to be exploring is

because today, according to the Kabbalistic calendar, is the new moon of Scorpio.

And every time we have the new moon, we don't always get to have a show on the new moon live,

but whenever we have the new moon in the week, we always talk about how it's important on the new moon,

sometimes it's 24 hours, sometimes it's 48 hours,

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