The darkest time of night is before dawn. Likewise, the authors of The Zohar stated that humanity’s darkest time will come before its spiritual awakening. Kabbalists Rav Isaac Luria (the Ari) and Rav Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) both pointed out the time The…
Chaos is a state that emerges on the spiritual path to the extent that we aim to build the necessary conditions for spiritual progress—positive connection among us. The chaos unfolds inside the person, because the transition from one spiritual level…
After the death of our egoistic intention to benefit ourselves alone, we start truly living. Until we free ourselves from the egoistic intention, we do not experience life. Instead, we perceive ourselves and our lives from within the narrow limits…
Yes, it is. Spirituality is focused exclusively on bestowal, while religion exists within the corporeal sphere, which is about reception, and which has corresponding intentions. However, judging from people’s actions, it can be quite unclear. Spirituality requires never dividing creation…
What is spirituality? Spirituality is the quality of love, bestowal and connection. This is why spirituality is so elusive. It is concealed from us, since it is complete altruism while our quality is the opposite, total egoism. Then, the question…
A spiritual game is one that elevates us from the animal degree, where we consider self-benefit over benefiting others, to the human degree, where we prioritize benefiting others and nature over ourselves. Such a game involves learning and participating in…
Human nature is a desire to enjoy and it divides into a few levels: individual desires for food, sex and family; social desires for money, honor, control and knowledge; and a tiny desire for spirituality. Our soul is where we…
We have been evolving over thousands of years, and at a certain point, we start awakening to questions about the meaning and purpose of our lives. They are the first awakening that we receive toward spirituality, and they become our…
Body and soul have no connection. The soul exists in and of itself, and the spiritual world reveals to us only if we attain a soul. By attaining a soul, we start sensing a new reality outside the narrowness of…
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…