Our body is naturally adapted to endure physical suffering. It can withstand pain, torture, even extreme conditions like solitary confinement, and still recover. But mental suffering—stress, despair, a lack of purpose—can break a person entirely. The reason is because our…
Suffering is given to us so that we can take a good look at our lives, examine whether we ourselves are the source of our pain, and understand how to rise above it. The suffering itself is not the goal…
There is no death, but it has nothing to do with the first law of thermodynamics. Life itself is not a matter of energy transfer. What we call life—our existence, experiences, thoughts, and feelings—does not stem from physical energy. It…
As we round up our 2025 World Kabbalah Convention on the theme “Connecting to Lishma,” it was incredibly inspiring to see hundreds of people from all around the world make the trip to Israel to join thousands more at the convention…
First, immortality is not about preserving the physical body, because the physical body does not actually exist. It exists only in our imagination, just like everything we perceive in this world. That is why the world is called “Olam” in…
There is no death. What we perceive as death is merely a transition between states, nothing more. In order to understand this concept we need to gain access to the spiritual reality above our corporeal existence in this world. When…
Being spiritually dead means having no spirit. Spirit refers to the quality of bestowal upon others, not the quality of receiving from others. Our earthly life is based on the desire to receive from everything around us, in every form,…
People need happiness. At our core, we all seek to feel happy. But real happiness is not found in fleeting pleasures. It comes when we understand why we exist, for what purpose, and how our lives and the world around…
An example of a miracle takes place when people who are naturally distant from one another, who reject, oppose, and even hate each other, rise above their differences. Despite how they feel and how they might treat each other, they…
Dr. Yeshayahu Rubinstein, an Israeli scientist, made an intriguing discovery about DNA. He found that the sulfur bonds between the base pairs of genetic material follow a repeating pattern: 10, 5, 6, 5, which correspond to the numeric value of…
An illness of the soul is far more challenging than a physical illness because it is the root of all illnesses, every single one of them. If we attain the correct attitude toward the world, i.e., one of absolute love,…
First, we should internalize the immense responsibility doctors hold in our world. People entrust doctors with the most valuable thing they have, their very life. Since most people do not live spiritual lives, i.e., life in connection with the upper…
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