Natural disasters have doubled globally in the last two decades. The world is in danger of becoming “an uninhabitable hell for millions of people,” warns the UN, unless actions are taken on climate change—floods, hurricanes, heatwaves, earthquakes, fires, and now a pandemic. Calamities…
Our universe is a thought. Our world is a thought. We live in thought. Our perception constantly develops, and the more it transforms, the more changes we observe in the world. It is very significant to note that we can…
Altruism is egoism’s opposite, and egoism is self-centeredness, or a desire to enjoy at the expense of others. Altruism is thus giving from oneself to others, to what is outside of us—humanity and nature. Egoism is an inward direction—a desire…
Israel, the land that was meant to host the ingathering of the exiles and reunite the Jewish people, is tearing at the seams. There has never been real unity in Israeli society, but we always knew how to rise above…
Top Jewish values are those that originally united us as a Jewish people. They are values initially established by Abraham and his group, who became known as “the people of Israel,” around 3,800 years ago. Abraham set the foundation for…
Natural disasters have doubled globally in the last two decades. The world is in danger of becoming “an uninhabitable hell for millions of people,” warns the UN, unless actions are taken on climate change—floods, hurricanes, heat waves, earthquakes, fires, and…
am-packed with anger, frustration, and mutual abhorrence avidly cultivated over weeks of closure, the residents of the State of Israel are beginning to resume life, if you can call it that. No one is hopeful. Everyone knows that the next…
One of the most curious articles written by my teacher’s father, the great 20th century kabbalist Baal HaSulam, is a short piece titled “The Thought Is an Upshot of the Desire.” When I read it for the first time, and…
Did you think that your thoughts build or ruin the world around you? They do; they are our desire’s “brain” that designs the world we live in. We’ve known for decades that humanity is destroying the planet, that our way…
A Times of Israel story recently reported festively, “YouTube removes Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam channel.” According to the story, YouTube announced that it has “strict policies prohibiting hate speech on YouTube, and [will] terminate any channel that repeatedly or…
A matter of pride to some and a source of envy to others, the fact is that Jews have traditionally stood out as Nobel Prize recipients, and this year is no exception as Jews have dominated basically all the areas…
A matter of pride to some and a source of envy to others, the fact is that Jews have traditionally stood out as Nobel Prize recipients, and this year is no exception as Jews have dominated basically all the areas…