Metzora
As physical ailments require physical cures, spiritual ailments require spiritual cures.
The Kohen, a soul doctor of sorts, a mystical chemist, develops a cure for the spiritually afflicted. Just as a being of flesh and blood may be afflicted by spiritual imperfection, so too may a home of brick and mortar. Once again, the Kohen diagnoses the symptoms and offers his spiritual prognoses. Sometimes the home may stand; sometimes it has to be destroyed. The reproductive ability is the deepest and most complex of all abilities. It is transformative and with all transformation comes impure residuals, body outweighing soul. We immerse in the baths of ritual – the mikvah – and recalibrate our bodies to or souls.
3 Vital Lessons For Today: Pre-Passover Workshop
Are You A Loner?
Enter into the innermost recesses of our unique, often lonely souls and discover how to transform loneliness into a positive form of singularity.
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Do You Know How to Empathize? Omer Workshop Session Two
Learn how to incorporate techniques to improve the way you feel for others. Discover how this can radically improve your situation and the world at large.
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The Pariah
At times, we all experience existential loneliness. The feeling of “not belonging,” that we are alone, different and isolated, without a sense of camaraderie and community.
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Storming Heaven
Look with selfish eyes and you see selfishness all around you. Peer with selfless eyes and you see selflessness all around you.
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Forty Nine Days Between Passover and Shavuot
From Passover to Shavuot, we conduct a daily count of the days and weeks in reenactment of the forty-nine-day process of self-refinement which our ancestors underwent from their exodus from Egypt on the first day of Passover to the revelation at Sinai on Shavuot.
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The Runaway Soul
How tzaraat is related to Chassidic teaching that the human soul is driven by two contrary forces: the drive to “run” or escape (ratzo), and the drive to settle (shov).
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The Colors of Blood Cells
The deeper significance of the colors of the various blood cells.
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My Encounter With The Rebbe: The Baseball Game
The Rebbe discussed baseball with a bar-mitzvah boy, and had a lifelong effect.
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G-d on the Moon
The moon’s greatness—her capacity to receive—is born of a sense of diminution and insufficiency.
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