Today, we live in a time when people have stopped sensing one another. For instance, Hortulanus, Machielse, and Meeuwesen’s “Social Isolation in Modern Society” explored how social isolation manifests in contemporary societies, showing the decline in social contacts and emotional connections among…
When I look at the world today, I see that there are already eight billion of us. And yet, very few are ready to say, “I am the one who needs to learn.” Everyone points at others: “They are bad…
If leaders feel an excessive desire for power, the first thing they must do is decide to set a clear condition: leadership must be determined solely by the measure of kindness and love that they have for those under their…
The force changing humanity today is nature’s source force of love, bestowal, and connection. It is a force that manifests specifically in the human being, who is the highest stage in nature’s development. It changes us because it directs itself…
The First and Second Temples were built from above. A spiritual force came down and united us. They were not the work of people, or in other words, they were states of unity that we did not achieve by ourselves.…
The connection to the source of life, the force of love, bestowal, and connection, goes through Israel. Israel here is meant in the spiritual sense (“Israel” from the words, “Yashar-El” [straight to the upper force]), not as a geographic location…
Habit replaces happiness. If we continually give to our spouse, if we invest daily, then they become dear to us. A person is a small egoist whose nature is a self-serving desire for enjoyment. Love means receiving fulfillment. If there…
Hell is not a place of fire and brimstone, but an internal spiritual state we experience on our path to attain the purpose of our development, a state of complete balance with nature, which we call “adhesion with the Creator”…
The Torah is everything that we discover when we go beyond this world, when we exit this world. After all of our searching and inquiry in this world, when we come to break through the shell of this world and…
It is said “Do not rejoice when your enemy falls” because your enemy is there to push you to correct yourself, to rise above your egoistic self-aimed desires and draw closer to balance with the integral laws of nature. Your…
It might sound like masochism, but it is not. The one who rebukes helps us by cutting at our ego, which lets the light in. “Light” here means the quality of love, bestowal, and connection dwelling in nature, or in…
It is because if we speak ill of someone, we speak against the very force that created and sustains us all. There is nothing but this force. So, by engaging in slander, we thus harm the system of connection, the…