Yesterday was Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the six million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices during World War II. Today, April 19, is the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the…
Humanity has to acknowledge that it has developed a corrupt society with hostilities and collisions in its connections. Today, we have to undergo a self-examination and ask ourselves serious questions about how and why we live: What are we living…
Pain is our body’s reaction to all kinds of bodily disruptions. It warns of danger and makes us act—to move toward pleasure and away from pain, to diagnose the cause of the pain, to reach conclusions and to advance in…
We constantly adapt to various codes of behavior in order to avoid feeling ashamed. Beyond taking care of life’s essentials, namely that we have food, shelter, good hygiene and can take care of our families, everything else we do is…
Thoughts about the meaning and purpose of our lives are the Creator’s way of inviting us into a dialog. They are like couriers knocking on our doors to notify us about a special delivery. We only need to open our…
Thousands of years of human progress, and what do we get? We can get any material thing we want, but remain dissatisfied. In any case, we play the game and chase transient pleasures. What else can we do? We look…
Punishment from God is among the many theories people have come up with for why we suffer, i.e. that God punishes us for certain actions we have (or have not) done either in our current life, or in past lives.…
Humanity needs to know that there is a next level of complete unification to which nature advances us, and the fact that nature is connecting us against our will is the reason for all forms of suffering we endure. In…
It is common in Israel to disrespect people of status, such as state officials. The reason for this is that we—the people of Israel, the Jews—are a free people in our roots. We originated as a nation of members who…
There are different kinds of divisions in every society and nation, but in the Israeli nation, the division is much stronger. This is because, as it is written, we are “a stiff-necked people.” It means that we are incredibly stubborn,…
Passover is the most festive of all the Jewish holidays. It is a celebration of freedom, when the people of Israel became liberated from the yoke of slavery in Egypt. Back then, the Hebrews united around Moses, and despite internal…
In order to unite, we need to annul our egos toward each other. What are our egos? They are our self-aimed inclinations that make each of us consider ourselves the greatest, that there is no one like us. Such an…