After analyzing data from over 450,000 Americans, psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton concluded that happiness has a price tag. They found that once a person’s annual income reaches about $75,000, their day-to-day happiness levels off and does not increase much with…
Many people feel lonely in their romantic relationship. They have a partner, yet they feel alone. The more practical question here is, how can the emptiness in such a situation be filled? Take this case study of a couple in…
The Jewish nation began in the cradle of modern civilization: Mesopotamia, known as “the land between two rivers.” Mesopotamia was a vast and fertile land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now Iraq. It was the birthplace…
It is because we thought that it would lead us to better lives, that we would progress, flourish, and achieve goodness and happiness. Therefore, it has become common to measure success in life by the number of hours that we…
There was a time when people dreamed of acquiring a higher education, degrees, status, becoming directors, and earning more and more. But what was the purpose behind all that movement? Today, more and more people have begun to feel the…
The Kabbalists who wrote The Book of Zohar did so by sitting and studying together in a cave through which they reached a state where they could express themselves through The Zohar. That is, The Zohar became expressed through the power of those ten…
We, as humanity, continually end up facing the questions: Where are we headed? What is our final destination? Also, what should we change to improve our lives? In the meantime, we walk various paths and develop in different directions. Today,…
A Kabbalist prays for the war we are in to not be a world war, but that the main war is one that passes through our hearts; that this war will disappear, that we will be able to hate the…
The story of our exile in Egypt begins with intense hatred among brothers, continues with their reconciliation and prosperity, collapses again into division and crisis, and ends with unity and a miraculous escape. And the prize for our restored unity:…
Who will hold me if I fall? Will someone offer a shoulder, support, and warmth? Insecurity, a feeling of deficiency, is the engine that drives us. If it were possible to calm us down by some miracle, to give the…
The easiest formula for success is that in any interaction we have between us as people, we want our actions to bring about maximal benefit to everyone. Then, we can conduct ourselves in an easy and optimal manner. To do…
Until today, we have built our sciences and industries according to our egoistic nature, where we each prioritize self-benefit over the benefit of others. Our era, however, is marked by a fundamental shift that we still have yet to process…