Italian scientists from the University of Catania created a computer model of 1,000 individuals, observed their progress over 40 years, and concluded that the wealthiest and most successful were not the smartest—but the luckiest. Kabbalah teaches that we each have our destinies…
The meaning of Lag B’Omer is generally not well understood. Its historical background and the sequence of events leading up to the holiday are unfamiliar, not to mention its spiritual significance, which has all but vanished from the public’s view.…
Humanity keeps inventing more and more because it wants to achieve a serene and good life. However, the opposite happens. Take nuclear energy, for example. We say it is for peaceful purposes, but at the same time, it has the…
Today, we live in a time when people have stopped sensing one another. For instance, Hortulanus, Machielse, and Meeuwesen’s “Social Isolation in Modern Society” explored how social isolation manifests in contemporary societies, showing the decline in social contacts and emotional connections among…
When I look at the world today, I see that there are already eight billion of us. And yet, very few are ready to say, “I am the one who needs to learn.” Everyone points at others: “They are bad…
If leaders feel an excessive desire for power, the first thing they must do is decide to set a clear condition: leadership must be determined solely by the measure of kindness and love that they have for those under their…
The force changing humanity today is nature’s source force of love, bestowal, and connection. It is a force that manifests specifically in the human being, who is the highest stage in nature’s development. It changes us because it directs itself…
The First and Second Temples were built from above. A spiritual force came down and united us. They were not the work of people, or in other words, they were states of unity that we did not achieve by ourselves.…
The connection to the source of life, the force of love, bestowal, and connection, goes through Israel. Israel here is meant in the spiritual sense (“Israel” from the words, “Yashar-El” [straight to the upper force]), not as a geographic location…
Habit replaces happiness. If we continually give to our spouse, if we invest daily, then they become dear to us. A person is a small egoist whose nature is a self-serving desire for enjoyment. Love means receiving fulfillment. If there…
Hell is not a place of fire and brimstone, but an internal spiritual state we experience on our path to attain the purpose of our development, a state of complete balance with nature, which we call “adhesion with the Creator”…
The Torah is everything that we discover when we go beyond this world, when we exit this world. After all of our searching and inquiry in this world, when we come to break through the shell of this world and…