Nature made everyone unequal. No one is equal to another, so at every moment, as external circumstances change, each person sees opportunities to rise or exploit the situation according to their egoistic desires, which prioritize self-benefit over everything else. The…
Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag, nicknamed “Baal HaSulam” (the “Master of the Ladder”) for his monumental multi-volume “Sulam” (“Ladder”) commentary on The Book of Zohar, is widely renowned as the greatest Kabbalist of the 20th century. Other than The Zohar commentary, he invested immensely in…
Kabbalah is updated with each generation as new souls descend and need a suitable exposition. While Kabbalah itself does not change, since we change, we require an updated methodological guide to the universe. Every Kabbalist in his generation felt responsible…
In order to attain a higher quality of love than what we feel in our day-to-day lives, we need to play a game. Why a game? It is because in a game, we do not play who we are now,…
Imagine yourself as a child. Think about how good and pleasant it is to have a great and wise big brother or sister who is devoted to you, standing behind you, wanting to help. That is how we need to…
Cooperative football. It involves having two teams on a football field, as there usually is in football, but no goals or goalkeepers. Five or six judges look out solely for aspects of cooperation, integrality, positive connection and mutuality. They seek…
The most important goal of education is to raise people to positively connect and complement each other, finding genuine happiness through positive relations. Toward such a goal, we should eliminate scores and ranks because they have a destructive effect. They…
In the wisdom of Kabbalah, we take upon ourselves the revelation of the Creator, to reveal our connection with Him and to bestow to all humanity. This means entering into all of nature to explore, discover, feel, and fulfill ourselves with…
Teachers should be honest and straightforward with their students, so that the students feel that the teacher is their friend. The students should also feel that the teacher is a wise adult that protects them, and who teaches them from…
I would teach equality to everyone in the classroom. A practical exercise in doing so is for everyone to write down people’s differences, and according to those differences we have in our natural qualities, we should then discuss: How can…
The most useful subject, especially in our present era, is learning what nature demands from us, and how we can meet its demands so that we develop harmonious, peaceful and fulfilling lives. What does nature demand from us? It demands…
We should start with the knowledge that our world is integral, that humanity is an integral group, and whether we are in our families, friend circles, classrooms, workplaces or any other grouping of people we might find ourselves among in…