Spirituality is above our corporeal reality. It is a completely opposite perception and sensation to our inborn bodily one. We are born into an egoistic human nature, prioritizing self-benefit over benefiting others. However, spirituality operates in an opposite, altruistic way…
In the early 1930s, my teacher’s father, the great Kabbalist and illustrious thinker, Baal HaSulam, wrote a groundbreaking essay titled “The Peace,” where he outlined how humanity can achieve peace and what will happen if it doesn’t. Among other things,…
With a tenacious worldwide pandemic, an unprecedented Saharan dust cloud crossing the Atlantic and threatening to throttle Central, South, and parts of North America, locust swarms all over Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America, it seems as though…
Be it a plague or a war, a flood or an earthquake, a revolution or a financial meltdown, in the end, there is always one culprit – the Jews. In America, too, many already blame COVID-19 on the Jews, as is the case…
The length of time for each person’s spiritual awakening depends on the state of the collective system we are all parts of, which develops to an increasingly unified state, and how we are needed in that system. A person is…
Ask any baby boomer where they were when they first heard that JFK was shot, and they will tell you. They will never forget that tragic moment in American history. In many ways, so was September 11, 2001, when the World…
Every day, I get emails and phone calls from people telling me that only six months ago, life smiled at them, and now they’re at a loss. Their world has crumbled and they see no future. It’s heartbreaking. With every…
Wherever we look these days, it seems like hate is engulfing the world. It’s not as though there was no hate before, but in recent months, it seems like there is no escape from it. On the one hand, hate…
In the wisdom of Kabbalah, the Tree of Life describes a specific spiritual phenomenon. The wisdom of Kabbalah is defined as a sequence of roots that hang down by way of cause and consequence, weaving to a single exalted goal:…
The wisdom of Kabbalah describes how nature works on all of its levels: still, vegetative, animate and human. It engages in how we are made and operate at deeper levels of reality, and not in any abstractions. One of Kabbalah’s…
When speaking of hunger, we are used to thinking of countries in South Asia, or Yemen, Syria, or in Latin America. This is no longer the case. Thanks to COVID-19, hunger is now a real threat in the U.S., as…
Spiritual work starts from accepting the laws of your own correction. To do so requires: reaching an understanding that rising above the ego is of utmost importance, and that connection to others as a single whole according to the rule…