Song of the Soul

I learned that if I needed life-saving dialysis, I would make time for it. And that is how I want to relate to you. Not like a chore. And not like a luxury. But like life-saving oxygen.

By joining forces, prayer won’t be fractured.

The G‑dly soul intuitively feels the excitement and wants to sing with joy. What about the animal soul?

Who is pulling your soul with thick cords of love?

Our feelings are generated as a direct result of our thoughts.

We may have knowledge of G‑d’s existence, a general theoretical awareness of it, but if the light is not on, we can stumble.

Prayer is an exercise of the imagination.

How can we be free from our deep enmeshment with physicality and its trappings, and the “highs” we experience from it?

It takes the human experience, where there is a void of G‑d’s absolute truth, to appreciate and recognize the absolute truth.

The spiritual rooster above knows not only the difference between darkness and light but between goodness and bad, revelation and concealment. We could all use some of that discernment in our lives.

How does the soul free itself from its desert state?

While G‑d’s light might be “hidden” in a tent-like fashion, He has given us an exact prescription for access to His great love by doing actual good deeds.

The soul is not here for itself, but to refine and elevate the animal soul.

During the days of the First Temple, no formal prayer was needed.

After praying with such fervor, the soul feels able and determined to return to its daily tasks.

No matter your industry, generating an income entails work. Is that compatible with deep spirituality?

What do you do with this powerful love and desire for G‑d, awakened during prayer as a result of our challenges?

It is not enough to live a good life because our intellect or hierarchy dictates so; we need to take that self and transcend it.

Prayer is called a war. We don’t actively fight the bad; instead, we engrave the truth of G-d’s Oneness into our psyche and the fact that everything in our life is being recreated by G-d at every moment.

You’re setting a cycle of love in motion.

We pray to G‑d to help us experience Him and feel Him in a way that relates to our experience.