Pressures, pains, doctors. Maybe the tests show nothing unusual, but the distress continues. Therapists, psychologists, medications. Sometimes there is some relief, but not a solution. Work is hard, family is hard, life is hard everywhere. Why has this epidemic come…
Nothing in life happens by chance. We are all connected by invisible threads of our spiritual roots. Every interaction and every separation is predetermined within the system of the common soul. When your soul must meet another for its correction,…
To live life fully means to remain young in spirit. Youth is not about age. It is about aspiration. You can live two hundred years and still be young if you are constantly striving forward. My teacher, Kabbalist Baruch Shalom…
True friendship requires inner work. There is no such thing as a friend without flaws. When you look at another and see their shortcomings, you are in fact looking into a mirror: their flaws are yours. The world around us…
Behind everything that happens in the world is the upper light, i.e., an upper force of love and bestowal. Even where we perceive darkness, we must polish ourselves and not the world, until that very darkness begins to shine. Every…
It is impossible for relationships between people to exist only on good terms. True connection is always built upon the ruins of what was destroyed. Only through experiencing both ascent and descent, joy and pain, can a person truly value…
According to the principle that half of a disease’s cure is in its correct diagnosis, combating antisemitism first requires accurately understanding antisemitism’s deep- seated cause. The cause of antisemitism is rooted within the Jewish people’s lack of acknowledgement of their…
When we look at humanity through the eyes of the upper governance, we see that there is no fixed place assigned to a person. A person can be placed anywhere in the world, and with time, adapt to it and…
Where does the sensation of pain come from? What is its role? What is the difference between today’s pains and those felt in the past? Can we do anything to ensure there will be less pain tomorrow? The basic substance…
What is the root of cancer? How do relationships between people influence it? Will we ever be able to eliminate it from the world? The integral approach to education, which views the human being, society, and nature as one whole,…
It is commonly thought that if you have your health, you have everything. However, despite much scientific progress, it is hard to say that today we feel healthier. What is the full definition of health? What is the root of…
Compassion is when we sympathize with another’s suffering and even share in it. Empathy means relocating into another person and feeling their experiences as our own. We rarely cultivate these qualities, yet from the age of thirteen or fourteen, people…