A student told me about a forty-four-year-old woman who had decided when she was younger never to have children. But now that she is older, she wonders if she made the right choice because even though she has friends and…
The construction of the Tower of Babel represents humanity’s first level of egoistic development that took place around 4,000 years ago. The story of the Tower of Babel describes people who, out of increased egoism, aspired to reach the governing…
We should first understand what is desire and what is bad about our desires. What is bad about our desires is that they control us and our intellect. Desire—or to be more precise, the desire to receive—is our entire essence,…
Israel exists in a kind of game, where no matter how much seeming good Israel brings to the world, with the many advances in science, technology, medicine and humanitarian aid, the world increasingly relates negatively to Israel. We indeed need…
Human nature is the desire to receive, also called “desire to enjoy,” and it functions by receiving what is beneficial to itself and rejecting what is harmful. Everything in our lives is built upon this calculation where we first try…
As the new Israeli government was taking shape, an open letter titled A Call to Action began to circulate among American Jewish communities. The signatories, some of whom are prominent figures in American Jewry, pledged “to not invite any members…
A little while after I had started studying with my Kabbalah teacher, Kabbalist Baruch Ashlag (Rabash), a letter reached us from a prisoner who lived under terrible conditions in a prison camp in Siberia. The letter was written in Hebrew, full of…
A little while after I had started studying with my Kabbalah teacher, Kabbalist Baruch Ashlag (Rabash), a letter reached us from a prisoner who lived under terrible conditions in a prison camp in Siberia. The letter was written in Hebrew,…
The wisdom of Kabbalah is all about bringing people together. Human connection holds primary importance in the method, and becoming a Kabbalist means becoming an expert in positive human connection. For instance, I understand every person I have ever spoken…
Through empathy we come to feel the pain of others, and through compassion we feel the pain of others but are able to handle it. It is because compassion comes with love, which is the key difference between the two.…
Through empathy we come to feel the pain of others, and through compassion we feel the pain of others but are able to handle it. It is because compassion comes with love, which is the key difference between the two.…
𝘈 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯? By understanding that the source of all lies and disinformation is nature itself, that our brains, hearts and hands are all under…