HOW TO MAKE A HUGE PROPHET Awakening to the Role and Goal of Your Soul A good actor plays his part, but he doesn’t get lost in his part. He never forgets who he really is although fully immersed in his role. Similarly, you are a soul playing a character. …
Sweetest Facebook Friends, Thank you for your comments on my article “Why We Should Not Pray.” Here are some of the classic Torah sources from where these ideas come. Whatever teachings I share are never my own. They are always based on traditional sources. Blessings, David WHY WE SHOULD NOT …
Why We Should Not Pray #Parsha Veyichi At first glance prayer seems to be about whining and begging G-d, “Please heal this person … please bring me my soul-mate … please help my business, etc.” One could mistakenly think that G-d is holding out on us and gets pleasure watching …
ARE YOU ENJOYING THE JOURNEY OF LIFE? Parsha Vayigash “For I made myself responsible for the naar youth — to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever… For how shall I go up to my father, if …
CHANUKAH: ONLY LOVE IS REAL Imagine you walk into a magic store where they sell special flashlights equipped with magic lights of different kinds. For example, you can buy the light of science, and when you point that flashlight at your hand, you see not a hand, but cells and …
Watch my short animation – LIGHTS: How To Find God – and complete the below quiz. Answers will be posted later this week. Please circle all answers that are true. There can be more than one answer that is true. 1) The boy questions his belief in Electricity because a) …
WHY IS LIFE SO DIFFICULT? Making Peace With Our Battle In this week’s portion, Jacob asks for peace and relaxation but G-d had another plan. “Jacob settled (down) in the land of his father’s dwellings, in the Land of Caanan.” — Genesis 37:2 The foremost commentator, Rashi, explains: Jacob wanted to …
Life is like a dream. The world you experience yourself in is actually in you. Change starts from within. Rav A.I. Kook, Arpelay Tohar All the worlds are within the soul and the deeper we delve toward inner knowledge of the contents of the soul, the more we understand the …
WHAT GOOD IS EVIL? The Torah teaches us that Jacob went to the house Laban, his uncle, and dwelt there for many years. After years of struggling with Laban constantly deceiving him he finally left to return home and face Esau who hated him. In the middle of the night …
THE ANSWER TO ALL HUMAN SUFFERING Humble Words to Console According to the Kabbalah, creation is an act of divine thought. G-d is like a thinker, and the entire universe is His thought. We come into existence through G-d’s thinking of us, so to speak. And we exist only as …