Bechukotai
We may walk down the beaten path or we may walk up the never-beaten path. The choice is ours.
Every day is a crossroads: When we walk with the Divine, the destinations are beautiful and prosperous. The opposite is also true, a tangle of thorns and rebukes, lost in a foreign land. That is no ultimate destination, but rather a detour – albeit a very painful one – through the harshness of material cynicism. There is an eternal bond and no off-road outback can break that. When we commit our resources and our selves to the Divine dream, pledging to reclaim the path and finance it if necessary, then is there really any other path than one that come to us naturally?
How Do You Deal with Setbacks?
Learn the successful formula that teaches us how not to allow failures get you down, and how to convert seeming failure into springboards for creating new channels of growth.
Read More
How to Turn Liabilities Into Assets
Failure and loss can bring out either the best or the worst of us. Learn how our true character and strengths emerge when faced with an obstacle.
Read More
Are You Dignified? Omer Workshop Session Six
Learn about the deepest and most vital of all our emotions, nobility. Discover techniques to increase your dignity, and transform into your potential self.
Read More
In Defense of Anarchy
The continued quest for an authentic teacher results in a discussion about the virtues of a specific anarchy and the refinement of our search for a rabbi.
Read More
The Kabbalah of Curses
To understand the deeper meaning of these blessings dressed up in the “garments” of “curses” requires a penetrating look into the forces that lay beneath the surface of existence in general.
Read More
The Kabbalah of Curses
The 49 curses listed in the Torah portion of Bechukosei evokes an interesting question: what possible benefit can be found in these curses?
Read More
Making it Count
The Counting of the Omer, which tracks the number of days between Passover and Shavuot, is a useful tool for recalling our gifts.
Read More
Ulterior Motives
The difference between a love that depends on something versus a love that does not depend on anything is discussed in light of our relationship with G-d.
Read More
Terms of Termination
The literal and figurative implications of the Hebrew word “hashbatah,” which means “terminate,” are debated by Talmudic sages Rabbi Judah and Rabbi Shimon.
Read More
The Eighth Dimension
The natural and spiritual dimensions of the numbers seven and eight are discussed from a Kabbalistic point of view.
Read More
Destroying the World
Drawing on the wisdom of the Oral Torah and the Zohar, the ten utterances which created the world and the perfection of the number ten are expounded.
Read More
Behar-Bechukotei: Jerusalem 2009
Take the “scoundrel” by its throat and strangle it. Not with your hands or with violence, but with light. Strangle darkness with light. Asphyxiate pain with joy.
Read More
Bechukotei: LSD Part 2
Last week’s article, Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, elicited quite a number of responses, most positive, some critical, many of them posted online in the comments section on the article.
Read More
The Kabbala of Curses
The 49 curses listed in the Torah portion of Bechukosei evokes an interesting question: what possible benefit can be found in these curses?
Read More
Behar Bechukotai: Global Dimming
Present day conflict has a direct source in biblical schisms of our forefathers, and in the ongoing war between the spiritual and the material.
Read More
