In The Beginning
While many people focus on the debate between evolution and creation, they often overlook a more important question about responsibility to a Creator.
Read MoreGastronomic Universe
Physical & spiritual pleasures: In Parshat Balak the Jews faced the plague of Pe’or – they encountered the cosmic digestive system & the energy of waste.
Read MoreThe Disposable Self
The closer one comes to G-d, the more one realizes one’s own insignificance in the face of the divine infinity.
Read MoreSpiked Chassidism
The fifth Rebbe of Lubavitch teaches us the importance of learning, self-development and growth in spiritual matters.
Read MoreSeparatism
A divorce of deed from faith and feeling is obviously antithetical to the very essence of Judaism.
Read MoreThe Spiritual Meaning of Straw
Esau wished to tithe the straw of life, to attribute spiritual worth to animal fodder. Instead of exploiting the material to serve the spiritual, he wished to invest the material with a significance and value of its own, which is the spiritual meaning of straw.
Read MoreThe Return of Hagar
Three years after Sarah’s death, Abraham remarries Hagar. Learn the significance of the return of Hagar, spiritually and as an historical event.
Read MoreRunning After You
Every Passover, we are again showered with a unilateral outpouring of divine love, as G-d again draws us to Him. This is followed by the forty-nine day sefirah (“count”), in which we again climb the forty-nine rungs of our psyche.
Read MoreTerumah: Yet Again
The world’s infrastructure is built on selfishness and leading to tragedy after tragedy. Instead, we must usher in a new era of spirituality and unity.
Read MoreBereishit: Passion & Complacency
Let us set the world on fire, the fire of spiritual passion that transforms. Together let us create a true revolution: Passion with poise.
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