This Thursday evening, we will celebrate LAG ba Omer, the 33rd day of the Omer count, which begins the day after Passover and ends forty-nine days later, on the eve of the holiday of Shavuot. The 33rd day is very…
As the climate crisis escalates and extreme weather is growing increasingly frequent, experts are seriously pondering how close we are to the point of no return. CBS News reported on April 26 that according to Professor Timothy Lenton, a global…
We live in an egoistic dimension, the quality of reception, where we have self-aimed desires and needs that we constantly try to fulfill. Around us is a hidden dimension of an opposite quality: bestowal. While living in this quality of…
According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, defining individual consciousness and collective consciousness depends on transforming our inborn natural qualities into a new mode of perceiving reality. Those who transform their perception of reality into one that is above the inborn…
Many years ago, when I was a university student at the Medical Academy in Leningrad (today’s St. Petersburg), there was a special project that the academy conducted in the Black Sea. It had to do with communicating with dolphins and…
Nature divides into four levels: inanimate, vegetative, animate and human. We currently belong to the animate level, because like animals, we engage in maintaining our body and earthly life. Animals, however, instinctively provide for themselves. We, on the other hand,…
Giving to someone and helping them without expecting anything in return is indeed incredibly difficult, and even impossible. While doing whatever deed of giving or helping that you are doing, if you think that by doing so you insert a…
“This is suicidal. We must end our war on nature and nurse it back to health,” said UN Secretary-General António Gutierres to mark International Mother Earth Day. There is not much to celebrate anymore—climate change, emerging pandemics, extinctions of animal…
Spiritual health is a state where we positively connect among each other in order to draw closer to spirituality, i.e., to a state where we are united with a common intention to love and care for each other. It is…
This week, the world marked Earth Day 2021. The theme was “Restore Our Earth.” Indeed, Earth has suffered the punishments that humanity has inflicted on it for far too long. Regrettably, we cannot restore it, not right now, and not…
On every aspect we can examine, life is better today than it ever was: We have more food than ever, even too much; we have better health care; we live longer; and we have freedom of speech, at least compared…
Behind every drug addict are unanswered questions about the meaning and purpose of life. We are all born, live and die against our will, and we thus all question the meaning and purpose of our lives. Drug addiction emerges as…