Kabbalah & Chassidism; Mysticism

It’s 5:30 a.m. and faxes and e-mails are coming in nonstop. A maintenance worker hauls fresh chocolate cookies off a truck while another stacks endless pairs of non-leather shoes into a wooden shelf.

Four thousand years of Jewish wisdom in practical application for today’s lifestyles. Meditations, dialogues, classic texts and contemporary works, sci-fi/fantasy and one-minute animations—a feast of diverse treats for the hungry spiritual seeker.

Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and the essence of Jewish mysticism

They cherished these dresses dearly until, one day, they heard that in America the style was to wear short skirts. Now their dresses no longer seemed so beautiful...

We don't do anything. There's something in the atmosphere and experience that takes away the ability to concentrate or focus. One's greatest desire is simply not to be there, not to be doing this, and to have it be over with as quickly as possible...

There comes a point at which the external resources we've come to rely on are suddenly ineffectual, and the only place to turn is inward, to ourselves

May 10, 2012

He built them a house and put straw on the benches and brought her tomatoes from the garden. He was so happy and she was devastated. But this was the situation

Learning how the secrets of KABBALAH can help you change the world

From the Rebbe's essay "On the Essence of Chassidism" (free translation) The Torah has four primary levels of interpretation: pshat, the plain meaning; remez, the hinted, intimated meaning; drush, the homiletic, expounded meaning; and sod, the esoteric ...