Essays
Finding Your Transcendent Soulmate
There are many other questions that need to be answered when searching for your soul mate. Here are some of the requirements necessary to achieve a transcendent relationship. It is always best to have a close trusting friend or mentor that can help you objectively assess your particular relationship.
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The 15th of Av: Full Moon Musings
The full moon of the month of Av is associated with relationships. The moon teaches us three fundamental lessons about successful relationships. The full moon means being full with another. Your feeling of lack and incompleteness allows you to become the most complete.
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A Matter of Perspective
A frightful pauper, there was never enough to eat in Reb Zusha’s home, and his family was beset with all sorts of afflictions and illnesses. Yet the man was forever good-humored and cheerful, and constantly expressing his gratitude to the Almighty for all His kindness. It was a matter of perspective.
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Rising From the Ashes
There is a secret world in which your first tablets were never broken. We each possess a tiny corner in our soul which forever remains invincible and pure. A look at the personal meaning of the shattered tablets.
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Thank You for Giving Me Back My Life
A moving letter of a survivor of childhood abuse who found out that her life is meaningful. Example of spirituality helping with overcoming child abuse.
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Bread from Heaven
Spiritual meaning of food: Food is the glue of life, the medium that holds body and soul together. So food, too, has both an “elementary” and a “particular” role in the sustenance of life.
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Food & Our Relationship with G-d
The Talmud points to the relationship between the soul and the body as a model for the nature of G-d’s relationship with the world. The soul cannot be perceived by the senses, yet its presence and effect is keenly felt in every part of the body; so too, G-d, though He transcends our reality and is utterly beyond its perception, vitalizes the entirety of creation and is fully present in its every nook and cranny. Food is the glue that keeps soul and body together, sustaining the embodiment of the spirit within its material shell.
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Spiritual Thirst
Spiritual thirst is a thirst without water. It is a thirst for truth, meaning, and purpose.
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