Getting G-d’s View on You: How to Make Worlds of a Difference “And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. My servant Moses is …
TORAH: REALLY GETTING IT SHAVUOT When the Jewish people received the commandments from Hashem at Mt. Sinai, they experienced the difference between freedom from oppression and freedom to expression. When they left Egypt, the Jewish people were freed from Egyptian slavery, but only when they accepted the commandments were they …
Wanna Meet Someone Special? Animation Transcript My first time in Manhattan was overwhelming; –the tall skyscrapers –the hustle and bustle of the traffic and thousands of people around me. I went into the subway, on the train ride more and more people got on, a crowd started to close in …
YOU ARE LOVED: Stand Up and Be Counted The LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. He said: “Take a census of the whole …
Bonding or Bondage: Why Serve G-d? “For unto Me the children of Israel are servants; they are My servants who I took out of the land of Egypt; I am the Lord G-d.” — Leviticus 25:55 There is an Eastern teaching that proclaims, “Be here and now.” Torah however would …
The purpose and the main point of everything and all that is intended in the entire Torah and 613 mitzvot is to bond through them to the living G-d, and realize the first statement that we heard from the Almighty: “I am the Lord your G-d!” And it is said …
WANT A LIGHT? THE ABCs of KABBALAH A story is told about three men who were imprisoned in a dark dungeon. Two of them were intelligent but the third was not very smart. Everyday, when their food was lowered into the dark dungeon, the third fellow would fumble with the …
CAN YOU REALLY LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOUR SELF? After reading this essay, you’ll never look at yourself — or others — the same way again. The actor Kirk Douglas once told me that when people compliment him on a performance, they often tell him how great he was at …
When we forget the essence of our soul itself, when we are distracted from introspection, from the content of inner life, everything becomes confused and doubtful. The beginning of repentance which immediately illumines the darkness is that a person return to himself, the root of his soul, and he will …
How to Succeed at Sacred Selfishness: The Ultimate Happiness Secret I had a student who told me, “My father was an atheist and the most moral man I ever knew. I don’t believe that had he been a believer, he would have been any a better person.” I asked him, …