Fear about our lives in this world arises in us instinctively and uncontrollably. In relation to spirituality, we do not remove fear, but we redirect it to be specifically a spiritual fear. What does “spiritual fear” mean? Spirituality means bestowal…
In the wisdom of Kabbalah, the angel of death is our egoistic human nature that makes us wish to benefit ourselves alone at the expense of others and nature. This quality brings about hatred and separation between people, and thus…
The spiritual world and the soul are desires in their direct and pure form. However, the wisdom of Kabbalah discusses states where the soul is dressed in a body. Kabbalists do not describe states of a soul that is unclothed…
Helping people sometimes turns out badly if those helping do not understand the laws of nature at work. For instance, a common mistake is that people try to help others by aiming to improve people’s external conditions without inner education.…
One of my students asked me this very question. A Kabbalist educates himself by first determining one fundamental thing: that it is the Creator who is educating him. This is the biggest difficulty and the main work. From the very…
Although medicine is constantly advancing, from one year to the next, the difficulties in conceiving and maintaining a pregnancy only keep increasing. Why? How did it happen that such a natural process became something so complicated and uncertain, which requires…
What we are witnessing today in Iran is no isolated eruption, nor merely an economic protest. It is the expression of a long-accumulated inner tension between a people and a system that no longer corresponds to their inner development. Young…
Altruism is the quality of the soul, or in other words, the soul is a quality of love and bestowal. How can such a quality exist within us if our world, our nature, and everything we feel are built on…
A person cannot trust the feelings and desires that arise within an egoistic world and an egoistic body. There is no truth in our desires. All thoughts and feelings are fundamentally selfish by nature. Therefore, there is no point in…
Today, when we look at humanity, we see a lot of people shouting. On television, on talk shows, people sit a few feet apart and yell nonstop, as if volume could replace meaning. Shouting cannot lead to anything; people are…
Kabbalists write that there is no rest in this world nor in the world to come. In other words, we need to constantly advance without cessation, and when we completely rise above our egoistic desire to enjoy for self-benefit alone…
Calmness and harmony, as they are usually understood, are actually not good states for a person advancing spiritually. Although the ultimate purpose of creation leads toward harmony, for a person who is already directed toward the higher goal, a state…