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,…
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…
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…
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…
The websites Israellycool and Ynetnews documented multiple posts on social media showing blame of Jews for the coronavirus. Ynetnews published its findings just 18 days after the Israellycool post, and it showed a significantly larger amount of anti-Semitic posts added in that short timeframe.…
There has always been hatred in the world, but there hasn’t always been racism. Today, as the question of racism and race equality becomes increasingly prominent, it is easy to see its destructive potential. To avoid declining into extreme violence,…
Read this Jerusalem Post headline carefully: “Anti-racism protesters in Paris yell ‘dirty Jews’ at counter-protesters.” That’s correct: the demonstration was against racism, and the demonstrators cursed a counter demonstration by yelling them, “Dirty Jews.” Put simply, in the eyes of…
America has everything: socialists, communists, capitalists, starving people without a roof over their heads, and billionaires who own mansions throughout the world. America also has huge social gaps, and with the coronavirus and the anti-racism riots, troubles are inundating America…
We are made of egoistic material, where we primarily consider self-benefit at the expense of others. The more we develop, the more our egos grow, and in our era especially, our egos have developed to such heights that we find…
What is spirituality? Spirituality is an opposite altruistic quality to our egoistic human nature. The human ego—the desire to enjoy—is behind every thought and desire we have, and behind every action that we do. Therefore, we perceive what we want…