Pain protects us by making us feel a boundary, where if we cross it, then we enter a danger zone. We typically want to simply not feel pain, and if we feel it, we want it to disappear right away.…
It seems like these days, everyone wants to be the prime minister, the president, the leader of the country. But if you look at the candidates, you realize the choices are very poor. Those who get to the top, get…
It’s not as if struggles are a thing of the past, but it seems as though people are beginning to grasp that war is a bad idea. From Khamenei to Putin, from Xi Jinping to you name it, world leaders…
What is the meaning of life? It is to rise to a level where we become as one with our life’s source—while we are alive. In the wisdom of Kabbalah, that source has various names including “the Creator,” “nature,” “upper…
If we were born with complete knowledge about ourselves, the world and reality in general, then we would be no more than machines or robots. The desire of the force that created us, called “the Creator” in the wisdom of Kabbalah,…
If you look at the world from a bird’s-eye view, you will see that its parts are gradually coalescing. We may approve or disapprove of the process, but it is both involuntary and irreversible. And the more we coalesce, the…
We live in unprecedented times. In our era, humanity is becoming increasingly interconnected, and together with this growing connection, we discover more and more inner resistance, rejection and opposition. Moreover, today we also see that we have no idea about…
You can always tell when a youth becomes a grownup: It’s that shift in their attitude when instead of blaming others for their misfortunes, they examine themselves soberly, learn what they did wrong, and work on improving it so it…
It’s been a year since we started imposing tightening closures the world over because of Covid-19. At first, we thought that we would shut down the economy and send people home for a couple of months, the summer would come…
The love we know, or corporeal love, involves loving whoever or whatever gives us pleasure. Spiritual love, by contrast, is built on feeling an inner distance, rejection, and opposition to others, and building love upon that distance. In other words,…
Any period before elections is nasty, and Israel’s campaign before Israelis go to the polls in March to elect the prime-minister is no different. The split is at its peak, the mutual contempt is celebrated while everyone pulls in opposite…