A spiritually mature person is one who ceases to pursue self-aimed enjoyment, and in its place, seeks love, bestowal and positive connection to others. Similarly, in our corporeal lives, as children, all we know is how to receive self-aimed enjoyment,…
We exist within an absolute and eternal force of nature, which exists above time, space, motion and everything that we can possibly imagine to ourselves. This force created an empty space within itself, and that empty space is where we…
The universe appears to be enormous, but it is in fact minuscule in comparison to the world that we can discover if we rise above the limits imposed on us by our inborn egoistic nature. If we break free from…
We first need to understand the source of suffering in life, and then we can implement a method to end it. In order to understand the source of suffering, the wisdom of Kabbalah explains a key interaction between two fundamental…
People on the spiritual path feel that their daily lives, everything they experience, fits in with this path. For instance, if you work in an office for eight-to-ten hours a day, you understand that it is part of your spiritual…
We first need to understand that we have no idea what true love is. Until we reach true love, we interpret love in all kinds of corporeal and egoistic ways, i.e., where we primarily benefit ourselves from whatever we picture…
Nationalism and racism share the same root. They both stem from an event that we study in the wisdom of Kabbalah called “the shattering of the common system of Adam HaRishon,” where we broke off from feeling that we all belong to a…
There will be no more big innovations in humanity. The era of great discoveries is behind us. The next major innovation will take place solely through self-transformation, i.e., by working on ourselves to transform our egoistic selves—where we want to…
One of my students asked me, as a kabbalist, what is gratitude according to the wisdom of Kabbalah? Kabbalah is a serious wisdom, and so when it discusses gratitude, it means spiritual gratitude. What, then, is spiritual gratitude? Spiritual gratitude…
Morality is a clear realization of the principle, “Love your friend as yourself,” i.e., a state of absolute positive connection above the ego, where we perceive and sense a completely different reality to the one we feel in our inborn…
Love is a law of nature. Everything is born and lives through love. However, hatred is necessary for love to exist because love needs to become established over another property, otherwise we would have no sense of it. There are…
It is due to the human ego, which is the nature of every person and holds us back from relating to others as to ourselves. Some people find themselves harming others—whether children, the elderly, or others whom they perceive as…