The Creation of Light
The creation of light is G-d’s concept of existence. It is the vision He articulated into being before getting down to the nuts and bolts of creation. The vision which precedes all, pervades all, and culminates all.
Read MoreNewfound Manuscript From the Mitteler Rebbe Gives Hope
This manuscript was penned by the second Chabad Rebbe’s (Rabbi Dovber Schneerson, the Mitteler Rebbe), and it includes the conclusion of a discourse delivered by his father, Rabbi Schneur Zalman on Shabbat Parshat Va’eirah 5568.
Read MoreThe Book of Light
Kabbalah discusses not financial disputes and livestock trades, but spiritual worlds, supernal attributes and forms of divine energies.
Read MoreWhat’s in a Name?
In the Holy Tongue, a word precedes its subject, creates it, and constitutes its very being.
Read MoreLight Reading: The Story of Light
I am watching the candles; the candles are watching me. I listen to their story; they listen to mine. Their warmth is my warmth; their light is my light; their story is my story – it is the story of light.
Read MoreThe Purpose of Chanukah Lights
This is the quintessential light of Torah: light as an end in itself; light as light is the purpose of Chanukah lights.
Read MoreThe Body and Soul of Light
The wave/particle nature of light – like everything in existence – has a body and a soul.
Read MoreElectric Light: The 19th of Kislev
The 19th of Kislev is celebrated by the Chabad community as the “Rosh Hashanah of Chassidism.”
Read MoreVayechi: Soul Profit
Your soul, the origin of human dignity, contains unimaginable strength waiting to be released by you. Discover the power when matter is fuzed with spirit.
Read MoreTazria-Metzora: Divine Containers
The world increasingly witnesses a union of form and function and spirit and matter. This concept is examined through the lens of kabbalah and Chassidus.
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