Everything we see around us—people, events, objects, successes, failures, disturbances, and even seemingly random encounters—is not random. It is a picture deliberately arranged and presented to us so that we will discover the single upper force of love, bestowal, and…
One of my students asked me to describe, point by point, what the development of the coming year would be like. Kabbalists indeed have a general understanding of the direction in which humanity is moving. They understand the overall process…
There are many verses about Shabbat, and in general the matter of Shabbat is something very great, because it corresponds to the end of correction—the seventh millennium, which we all hope to reach. This is a matter of spiritual degrees:…
The following is a statement by Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak: “When we started Apple, Steve Jobs and I talked about how we wanted to make blind people as equal and capable as sighted people, and you’d have to say we succeeded when…
Fear about our lives in this world arises in us instinctively and uncontrollably. In relation to spirituality, we do not remove fear, but we redirect it to be specifically a spiritual fear. What does “spiritual fear” mean? Spirituality means bestowal…
In the wisdom of Kabbalah, the angel of death is our egoistic human nature that makes us wish to benefit ourselves alone at the expense of others and nature. This quality brings about hatred and separation between people, and thus…
The spiritual world and the soul are desires in their direct and pure form. However, the wisdom of Kabbalah discusses states where the soul is dressed in a body. Kabbalists do not describe states of a soul that is unclothed…
Helping people sometimes turns out badly if those helping do not understand the laws of nature at work. For instance, a common mistake is that people try to help others by aiming to improve people’s external conditions without inner education.…
One of my students asked me this very question. A Kabbalist educates himself by first determining one fundamental thing: that it is the Creator who is educating him. This is the biggest difficulty and the main work. From the very…
What we are witnessing today in Iran is no isolated eruption, nor merely an economic protest. It is the expression of a long-accumulated inner tension between a people and a system that no longer corresponds to their inner development. Young…
Altruism is the quality of the soul, or in other words, the soul is a quality of love and bestowal. How can such a quality exist within us if our world, our nature, and everything we feel are built on…
A person cannot trust the feelings and desires that arise within an egoistic world and an egoistic body. There is no truth in our desires. All thoughts and feelings are fundamentally selfish by nature. Therefore, there is no point in…