Soul, The

A soul is Divine energy, a little piece of G-d within you. Your inner identity, your raison d'être

What is a soul? I asked a couple of angels, a psychiatrist, a physicist and a guru, and this is what they told me...

We can sit and gaze at it for hours. What is it about a burning flame that captures our imagination?

Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and the essence of Jewish mysticism

The wick would flare and die. The oil is difficult to ignite at all. But when brought together in the lamp, they produce a steady flame. And so it is in the of the "a lamp of G-d" that is our soul

How does the The Torah deal with behavior modification? From the bottom up

I picture it pulsating somehow, like a lighthouse, like a heartbeat, like the rhythmic in and out, on and off, here and there, now and then, dark and light of life

The phrase "crushing labor" appears repeatedly in the Torah's account of the Egyptian exile and enslavement, in the text of the Haggadah, and in the symbolism of the seder observances. What is crushing labor?

Jews have always been called the "chosen people," because that's how we are described in the Bible. But what does it mean to be "chosen"? Chosen for what? How did we get to be chosen? Why did G-d have to choose a people?

He is 15 or 50; he is white or black; his hair is blond, brunette, streaked with gray; Like the anorectic, he may be a she.