Loving the Risk of Risking Love #Parsha Toldot Rebecca said, “Now my son [Jacob] listen to me and heed my instructions. Go to the sheep and take two choice young kid-goats. I will prepare them the way your father likes. You must then bring it to your father, so that …
The general way people understand God is that there’s existence, and then there’s God in existence. Within that existence God has created little you and me. And so here we are in existence, standing alongside Almighty God. With that picture before our eyes, we cannot help but feeling very small, …
HOW TO TURN PAIN INTO POWER When my wife was giving birth to our first child, she was in excruciating pain. Sure, we had gone to Lamaze birthing classes and learned how to breath and all those kinds of things. But when we got to the labor room, I felt …
Most people think that God is some super being floating in another realm called heaven, watching us from above. When the first Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went into space, ground control asked him, “What do you see?” He answered, “I don’t see God.” What did he think he would see? …
To Really Get It You Have To Let Go Abraham spent his whole life teaching the message of the G-d of love and protesting against the idolaters’ cruel practice of sacrificing their children. Why would G-d ask Abraham to sacrifice his son? How would he ever face the world after …
Rebbe Nachman–Likutei Maharan 36 Bad does not emanate from HaShem, as it is written (Eicha, 3), “From the mouth of the Supreme One, bad does not emanate.” The blessing and the curse occur by the person in accordance with the vessel that he provides, as it is written, “Behold, I …
WHY THE JEWISH PEOPLE WILL NEVER DIE All things are mortal, but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality? ~ Mark Twain “The Jew is eternal. He is the embodiment of eternity.” ~ Leo Tolstoy When G-d said to Abraham “Go …
Of what benefit is prayer? Will divinity change? Rather the one who is m’tpallel is calling to the godliness manifest within him, within the totality of his soul. This awareness definitely changes the person’s receptivity which is ever changing. …The external world is tied to the inner world. Positive change …
HOW TO GET YOUR PRAYERS ANSWERED [SOURCE] Of what benefit is prayer? Will divinity change? Rather the one who is m’tpallel is calling to the godliness manifest within him, within the totality of his soul. This awareness definitely changes the person’s receptivity which is ever changing. …The external world is …
CAN WE CHANGE GOD’S MIND? ~ RAV A.I. KOOK When prayer is understood in a crass way it becomes a mockery. A person calls out to G-d, whom he describes as powerful, resilient, mighty, dominant, victorious, and as One Who pursues honor and the obedience of grovelling servitude from His …