What Your Face Reveals About Your Soul, Destiny & Relationships with Eliyahu Jian.
Kabbalah coach Eliyahu Jian discusses face reading as a spiritual diagnostic tool rooted in Kabbalistic texts, explaining how physical features correspond to soul-level corrections (tikkunim). He connects addiction, relationship dynamics, and personal growth to Kabbalistic concepts like the sefirot, nefesh/ruach/neshamah, and the importance of desire over results. The conversation also features insights from a recovery professional about consciousness, breaking generational cycles, and the necessity of hitting rock bottom.
Summary
The podcast features Eliyahu Jian, a Kabbalah coach with 32 years of experience, who explains how he uses face reading — a technique he traces to the Zohar and the section of the Torah where Moses selects judges — as a tool to identify a person's soul-level corrections (tikkunim). He describes how different facial features, including forehead lines, eyebrow placement, ear position, eye distance, lips, and palm lines, correspond to specific behavioral and spiritual patterns. The forehead is divided into three regions representing intuition, memory, and logic, while the lines on the forehead correspond to the seven sefirot as expressed in the prayer Ana B'Koach.
Eliyahu connects the first forehead line (chesed) to addiction, arguing that people with addictive tendencies have an excess of love but lack gevurah (boundaries). He proposes that overcoming addiction and redirecting that love toward God represents the highest spiritual achievement for such individuals. He also discusses how the palm's lifeline can physically change through acts of charity (tzedakah), and that Rosh Hashanah and Passover are the key times when God determines the length and quality of one's life respectively.
On relationships, Eliyahu explains the Kabbalistic framework of Ze'ir Anpin (the male principle as a pipe delivering abundance) and Malchut (the female principle as a well receiving it). He argues that men are wired to give and should be complimented on performance — in business, sports, and intimacy — while women should be acknowledged for their presence and the finished result. He warns that a man who is stingy is exhibiting a spiritual disease identified by King Solomon, and that wealth without relational development leads to loneliness.
Eliyahu discusses reincarnation, noting that male bodies can carry female souls and vice versa, which affects relational dynamics. He also touches on astrology, explaining that one's rising sign and moon sign are mathematically determined by birth time and the Hebrew calendar, and that all astrology has its roots in Judaism.
The second speaker, a recovery professional, shares lessons learned from working in addiction treatment centers: that closed-mindedness can be fatal, that desire and energy are never wrong — only misdirected — and that judgment-free environments allow people to heal. He frames his life's mission as transferring Kabbalistic teachings (particularly Rabbi Nachman's and the Baal HaSulam's) into practical consciousness work. He describes consciousness as moving people from fear-based living to trust-based living, and argues that one's internal state either builds or destroys the metaphorical Temple for everyone around them.
Both speakers converge on the idea that the ratzon (desire to change) matters more than results in God's eyes, that rock bottom is a necessary and even merciful catalyst for growth, and that generational curses — such as addiction passing from parent to child — can only be broken when someone chooses to stand up and interrupt the pattern. The episode closes with a reflection on legacy, with the recovery professional expressing his desire to be remembered for elevating consciousness rather than for resume achievements.
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Key Insights
- Eliyahu Jian argues that addiction is spiritually rooted in chesed (unconditional love) without gevurah (boundaries), meaning addicts have an excess of love but no filter for where it goes — making them uniquely capable of achieving deep love of God if the addiction is redirected.
- Jian claims that physical lines on the palm can literally change when a person gives charity, citing this as observable evidence he has witnessed firsthand, and that Rosh Hashanah determines length of life while Passover determines quality of life.
- Jian asserts that Botox and cosmetic procedures do not erase a face reader's ability to read a person, because other facial features — ear placement, eye distance, lip thickness, eyebrow arch — still carry the spiritual and behavioral information.
- Jian argues that men should be complimented exclusively on performance (business, sport, and intimacy) rather than appearance, because men are spiritually structured as Ze'ir Anpin — a pipe whose identity is defined by what it delivers, not what it looks like.
- The recovery professional argues that a person's internal emotional state is the foundation of how they treat others — that people treat others based on how they feel about themselves, making internal healing the precondition for positive social impact.
- Jian contends that things that come easily to a person — beauty, money, talent — are actually their area of tikkun (correction), not their strength, because they did not earn those gifts and therefore have a bread of shame relationship with them.
- The recovery professional describes observing that the same intensity clients use to smuggle drugs into treatment facilities is the exact energy that, if redirected, could fuel their recovery — framing addiction as misdirected desire rather than moral failure.
- Jian argues that Rabbi Nachman taught that God judges people not on results but on ratzon (desire), meaning a person who relapsed a hundred times but had genuine desire is spiritually superior to someone who never struggled but also never strove.
- Jian frames contractions (business failure, personal crisis) as Kabbalistic tzimtzum — necessary vessel-stretching that precedes a larger expansion, and claims he has internalized this to the point where rough times no longer generate doubt but rather signal incoming abundance.
- The recovery professional argues that allowing people to hit rock bottom is itself a mitzvah (commandment), because an unbroken vessel cannot receive new information or light — and that preventing someone from crashing can actually be a form of harm.
- Jian claims that all astrology is rooted in Judaism — that the zodiac signs correspond to Hebrew months, the Twelve Tribes, and Sefer Yetzirah — and that it is a mathematical system, not a mystical or psychic one, based on the Hebrew lunar calendar.
- Jian argues that breaking a generational curse — such as a child of an alcoholic choosing sobriety — is one of the highest spiritual acts a person can perform, because it corrects not just the individual but repairs the soul-pattern across multiple generations.
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Transcript
Welcome to today's podcast. Today's podcast is sponsored in the in the s'chut of Shoshana Bat-Zipporah Malka. Today's class is also in L'um Sh'ma Yeruch Me'er Yerim Magna Yisrael, Succession Yerushalayim of Gadiel, Emet, and Shefa. Um, uh, Bat-Eliyeva, uh, Gadiel Ben-Elishava, Shefa Bat-Elishava, Reina Malka B'to-Ve-Vasha, and Emet Ben-Elishava. Today's class is also sponsored by Yehuda Ben-Morach Ha'Gitul and Rachel Brau Matchmaking. I have the pleasure of having Coach Eliyahu aka Kabbalah Coach aka his palm reader aka good friend. Welcome, welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for inviting me, for including me. Amazing, amazing. We follow the same things. We follow the Baal Sulaim and I know you have personally coached people not only on a…
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