Essays
G-d’s Relationship With The Kohen Gadol
A discussion based on Chassidus, Jewish mystical thought, on the basis that we refer to G-d as a kohen or a kohen gadol, as well as in other human terms.
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The Meaning: You Shall Be Holy for I Am Holy
What does the commandment “You shall be holy for I am holy” mean? Our relationship with G-d is complex. We contribute as much and even more than we receive.
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The Eruv: A Private World
The ultimate function of Shabbat is to establish an eruv in our “multi-occupant courtyard”: to integrate the diverse forces and realities of our world as a singular, harmonious expression of the divine truth.
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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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Love in the Ice Age
On Tevet 10th of the year 3336 from creation (426 B.C.E.) we were plunged into a winter from which we have yet to emerge. On that day, Babylon’s armies laid siege to Jerusalem.
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Hemshech Tzaddik Dalet
Nothing is real. That is the point proved by the chassidus of Rabbi Yoseph Yitzchak Schneerson in his series of discourses called Hemshech Tzaddik Dalet.
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The Book of Light
Kabbalah discusses not financial disputes and livestock trades, but spiritual worlds, supernal attributes and forms of divine energies.
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24,000 Plus One
The “deeds, teaching and works” of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai are the ultimate rectification of Rabbi Akiva’s disciples’ tragic failure to achieve the proper synthesis of love and truth that would make their love true and their truth loving.
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The Missing Complaint
A group of Jews had found themselves in a state which, by divine decree, absolved them from the duty to bring the Passover offering. Yet they refused to reconcile themselves to this.
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The Distant Road
The Second Passover is “a festival in its own right,” offering an opportunity for a teshuvah that is not limited to the literal sinner.
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