Today we must understand a fundamental fact about the world we live in: humanity has become completely interconnected and interdependent. This did not happen yesterday. The process has been unfolding for at least the past hundred years, and it began…
All the commandments or Mitzvot are nothing more than expressions of spiritual laws dressed in actions of our world. In and of themselves, the physical acts have no independent power. When a person performs them only externally, mechanically, without inner correction, they…
Abraham’s teaching can be called a religion from the moment it became a unifying force, i.e., when it turned into a practical method for building a society that absorbed the idea of unity, accepted it, and began to live by…
Q: Why do Jews write from right to left?Hebrew is written from right to left because the right side is considered the spiritual side or “the right one,” while the left is not. There is a spiritual root in nature,…
Hanukkah, in its spiritual meaning, is the revelation of a timeless inner process. The external events of 170 BCE—Antiochus’s desecration of the Temple, the persecution of the people, the uprising of the Maccabees, and the miracle of the oil—are branches…
The role of the Jews in the human puzzle is to unite (“love your neighbor as yourself” [Leviticus 19:18]) above differences and divisions (“love will cover all crimes” [Proverbs 10:12]) in order to become a conduit for the positive unifying…
The Tower of Babel provides an example of the human ego that grows so big that it shuts our ears, making us unable to understand one another. Just as it plays out in that story, such a state can once…
I see no positive signs in it. There can be a positive sign only when within Israel, among the people of Israel living in the Land of Israel, there will be more closeness and connection. The fact that there is…
As the forces wishing for Israel’s downfall become more demanding and sophisticated, new threats emerge over past ones. Indeed, antisemitism is nothing new. An inner hatred toward Jews runs through the pages of history, and each time it assumes a…
According to the principle that half of a disease’s cure is in its correct diagnosis, combating antisemitism first requires accurately understanding antisemitism’s deep- seated cause. The cause of antisemitism is rooted within the Jewish people’s lack of acknowledgement of their…
Inside every Jew sits the image of a merchant. This comes from the earliest roots of our people, as the ability to make connections is imprinted in us. For generations, we used this ability for business success, but today’s survival…
The subject of money and the Jewish mind brings up associations like life wisdom, entrepreneurship, commerce, opportunities, intuition, creating connections, behind-the-scenes consulting, strategy, planning, mental agility, quick grasp, inventions, sophistication, manipulations, and schemes. There is a certain feeling that money…