In this week’s Even Shlomo on the Parsha, Rav Shlomo Katz and the chevre of Shirat David walk with Yaakov into the darkest, most misunderstood place in the human heart – loneliness.
“ויבשר יעקב לבדו" – Yaakov was left alone.” Reb Shlomo reads this night of wrestling not as a tragedy, but as the moment Yaakov’s deepest self is revealed on the night he receives the name Yisrael and gives every Jew the strength to stand alone until the dawn of Geulah.
Rav Shlomo Katz unpacks:
- The difference between crushing loneliness and a holy state of being levado
- How the revelation of your soul is really “finding out what Hashem had in mind when He created you”
- Why you were never meant to be an “identical bagel” in shul – and how to discover the one shlichus no one else can do
- The Tzanzer Rebbe’s radical teaching that the thing you most need in life cannot be written black-on-white in the Torah, so that you’ll have to seek it directly from Hashem
-Why real hisbodedus is not a mental-health “add-on,” but the place where Vayivaser Yaakov Levado becomes real in our own lives
For anyone who feels out of place, unseen, or “too different,” this shiur is a lifeline: a Torah that says your essential loneliness isn’t a mistake – it may be the only place your true name can be revealed.
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“The Essential State of Loneliness | Reb Shlomo Carlebach on Vayishlach” is a video from Rav Shlomo Katz, published on December 3, 2025 and available to watch on VideoVinkel. The total runtime is 45:10. It has been viewed 1,266 times so far. Press play above to stream the full video right here, or open the original on YouTube.
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