Prayer
To pray is not to beg. To pray is to interweave with the Creator in high frequency conversations.
Talk is cheap. Well, it depends to whom you talk. Prayer is invaluable because you are talking to a Higher Reality that is priceless. Prayer is part conversation, part acknowledgment, part realization, part meditation, and part actualization. Prayer induces swaying the same way flame ignition induces flickering. Prayer is a ladder, embedded in earth, touching heaven. The entire molecular structure of existence hinges upon this ladder. It is here that the rungs of the world are righted.
On the Essence of Leadership
As Moses leads the Song of the Sea after the Jews escape the Egyptians, he demonstrates true leadership, for within Moses the soul of Israel was one.
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Shoftim: Elul Whispers
Elul is the month of love and compassion. As we enter the month we ask how we understand this in light of the reality around us filled with terror and war?
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Soldering Souls
The Baal Shem Tov teaches us that The fervor of prayer is a welder’s torch that fuses matter and spirit, heaven and earth, the mortal and the eternal.
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The Constructive Statement
Every mitzvah we perform is a testimony as to the essence and purpose of the created existence.
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Miriam’s Song
Learn the spiritual meaning of Miriam’s Song, at the Exodus from Egypt. Based on an address by the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
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Fire: A Narrative by Rabbi Pinchas Reizes of Shklov
Rabbi Pinchas Reizes of Shklov tells a story of a miracle on Simchat Torah.
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A Day in the Life of a Jew
As Jews, however, we are also guided by a more subtle calendar, a more spiritual clock: the calendar and clock of history. As Jews, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are as central to our concept of morning, noon and evening as the sun’s arc across the sky; Adam, Moses and King David mark our year as prominently as the turning of the seasons; and the twelve sons of Jacob, progenitors of the twelve tribes of Israel, are as basic to our daily schedule as the twelve numerals etched on our clock-face or the twelve spiral-bound pages hanging on our wall.
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Matot: What Can I Do About the Situation in Israel?
Let us create a true revolution. Let us reconnect to our Divine mission. Let us move heaven and earth with our actions. We have been promised that when we do, we will save the universe – literally.
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