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Man as Verb
The truth about the Tanya
By Tzvi Freeman
I'll let you in on a little surprise: Who says that yourself is the real you? Maybe the real you is not a subject, not an object, but a verb? Maybe the real you is to be found not in who you are but in those things you need to do?  21 Comments | |
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Cold Soup
By Manis Friedman
Imagine, a couple gets married, and the man says to his new wife, "Would you make me something to eat, please? I'll be right back." She begins preparing. The guy comes back 3300 years later, walks into the house, up to the table, straight to his favorite chair, sits down and tastes the soup that is on the table. The soup is cold 1 Comment | |
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Man and Woman
By Manis Friedman
When G-d created Adam, at the moment Adam opened his eyes, what was his psychological profile? He had no Oedipus complex because he had no mother. He didn't have a birth trauma, because he wasn't born. He had no sibling rivalry... What was this man like? 11 Comments | |
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Kabbalah of Love
By Shifra Hendrie
We all yearn for the intimate touch of another soul. So why are we forever repelling love with our anger and criticism? 21 Comments | |
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Chassid in Wonderland
By Naftali Silberberg
Parallel universes, supernatural phenomena, and a world where good always prevails. Is this Grimm's fairy tales, or a chassidic text? 6 Comments | |
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A Daughter of Zelophehad Speaks
By Sarah Schneider
The Torah's account of the petition presented to Moses by the daughters of Zelophehad is relevant both to women seeking Halachic support for change, and to the rabbis who are ruling on their questions 6 Comments | |
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How One Word Changed the World
By Baruch Epstein
Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi added to a Scriptural verse a one-word modifier that revolutionized the way we think about ourselves and our lives: mamash. 11 Comments | |
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The Cosmology of the Mitzvot
By Avi Rabinowits
The physical realm as the "shadow" of the spiritual; the mitzvot as physical "symbols" that manipulate spiritual realities; matter as thye most compact form of energy; prayer as the language of the soul and the minyan as the "critical mass" that unleashes its power 6 Comments | |
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Journeys
By Chana Weisberg
I did not want to be myself. I did not want to become independent. I wanted to remain enfolded in your warmth, listening to the comforting rhythmic beating of your heart... 4 Comments | |
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A Path and a Choice
By Yanki Tauber
Follow your bliss? If it's going to make other people like you, that's the thing to do? Not the sort of advice you'd expect from a Talmudical sage... 3 Comments | |
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The Reinvention of Man
By Adin Even-Yisrael (Steinsaltz)
Two thousand years after all the sages of Israel, both the pessimists and the optimists, agreed that man was a failed experiment, the Rebbe re-opened the question... 9 Comments | |
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The Monkey and the Elephant
Insights into the month of laughter
By Yitzchak Ginsburgh
First the elephant's trunk is threaded through the eyelet, then his head, followed by his entire huge body. Imagine dreaming such a dream! | |
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The Difficult Case of the Private I
By Tzvi Freeman
My guru says I must first surrender my ego in order to proceed with his five day, ten-step path to total enlightenment. Personally, I find my ego quite useful, even neccessary. What do you think? Are egos really as bad as they are made out to be? 3 Comments | |
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Fallen Sparks
By Tzvi Freeman
The very core of reality is G-d's shattered dream, waiting for us to pick up the pieces 6 Comments | |
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Can People Change?
creating something from nothing
By Shifra Hendrie
G-d creates from "Nothing" because nothingness, ayin, actually means absolute, infinite possibility. And as a beings created in the image of G-d, we, too, can create "something from nothing" 5 Comments | |
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