In our corporeal lives, we come into contact with various pleasures, but we remain unhappy because the moments of pleasure instantly disappear. They are temporary because the contact with a pleasure in order to receive it for self-benefit alone cannot…
Say you woke up in the dark. You understand, know and feel nothing at all. You then slowly go about your morning routine, leave your home, and head out onto the street and into the world. You flip…
There is a principle in the wisdom of Kabbalah that the individual and general are equal. It means that the tiniest individual particle contains the information of the whole system of which it is a part. This principle of similarity…
The best way to overcome stress is to deal with it in a group setting. When we are parts of a supportive and encouraging group that immediately starts discussing the cause of the stress and how to work with it,…
The exodus from Egypt is the exit from our egoistic approach to each other to new relations of love and positive connection. Being in Egypt and under Pharaoh’s rule means that we are under our ego’s control, which pits us…
Being free means being free from our egoistic desires, which make us wish to benefit ourselves at the expense of others and nature. In other words, freedom means becoming free from our egoistic nature that rules over us, so that…
There is an increasing understanding that we can no longer live our lives the way that we do, i.e., that our consumerist culture of overproducing and over-consuming is destroying our planet, robbing it of its resources, and which ultimately leads…
Elijah announces that the Messiah is coming. What is the Messiah? The Messiah is a force that pulls us our of our egoistic desires. In Hebrew, the word for “Messiah” (“Moshiach”) comes from the same linguistic root as the word…
The evolutionary process we undergo is in order to adapt us to the upper world, i.e., to lead us to a state of harmonious connection “as one man with one heart,” one humanity functioning as a single system. We exist…
The ego is the desire to enjoy at the expense of others, and the problem with it is precisely in that it makes us think and act at the expense of others. It blocks us from seeing how we are…
𝘛𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘢 𝘉’𝘈𝘷 is a very important and prominent state in the development of creation. According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, Tisha B’Av commemorates the ruin of the Holy Temple, i.e. the shattering of the vessels, the state when we lost…
God is the general integral force of nature that operates upon our planet and our universe, which is behind the existence of everything and everyone. God wants to teach humanity as His children, for us all to recognize His greatness,…