The Giving Pledge, according to the statement on the site, “is a promise by the world’s wealthiest individuals and families to dedicate the majority of their wealth to charitable causes.” In 2010, Warren Buffett, Melinda Gates, and Bill Gates founded…
2021 has been a tumultuous year. Covid-19 is still raging with recurring waves, the summer saw unprecedented fires in numerous places around the world alongside equally unprecedented floods, and earthquakes and volcanic eruptions seem to have been more frequent this…
Good is when we make voluntary progress toward balance with nature, i.e. balance with the universal force of love, bestowal and connection. On the contrary, we feel bad when we move involuntarily toward the same balanced state. If we feel…
Persian astronomer and poet Omar Khayyam was an artist at expressing indecision. In one his rubaiyats (four-line poems) he wrote: One hand with Quran, one with wine-cup dight, I half incline to wrong, and half to right; The azure-marbled sky…
Thought is the greatest force in nature. It operates above time and space. Thought is the highest force of human nature. In kabbalistic texts, it is written that “all is clarified in thought.” Thoughts come from the thought of creation,…
First of all, a divine experience is not a mystical or religious experience. A divine experience takes place when we connect with each other and sense the general system of nature. It is an experience in which we feel the…
According to a recently published Pew research, in 2007, 78% of Americans identified as Christians. Now, in 2021, that number is down to 63%. At the same time, the share of Americans who identify as having no religion (nones) went…
This Saturday, NASA is planning to launch its much-awaited next-generation space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope, which has been in the making for decades, is the most complex space science observatory ever built. According to NASA, “Webb…
We have the ability to rise to a level where we can see the origin of our experiences and observe life from a different vantage point. What is this new perspective we can reach? It is one where we attribute…
We first need to understand how we perceive life, which is through a lens of self-concern. We do not perceive life as is, but we have five senses of sight, smell, touch, hearing and taste, five openings through which we…
Recently, we learned that the US government and the Palestinian Authority have resumed their economic talks after a five-year hiatus. According to the State Department, the talks will revolve around infrastructure development, access to US markets, US regulations, free trade,…
“It seems that the Zionist regime has forgotten that Iran is more than capable of hitting it from anywhere,” the Tehran Times recently opened its front-page article with a map of targets against Israel covering virtually the entire territory of…