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…
The Urgent Need for Social Reform The deepening and unsolvable global crises—with its various manifestations of social rage and angst, raise an urgent need for changing prevalent social values—which are self-centered, egoistic, and ruthlessly competitive—to new ones that are positive;…