Baruch Nachshon

You can light thousands of candles from one flame without losing the slightest amount of its light; but put thousands of candles in a room, and there will still be a single light...

The Baal Shem Tov loved light. So his disciples always made sure to have many candles burning whenever they expected their master...

Some people think Judaism is all about tradition. It's not. It's about making a whole new world

Imagine if everyone saw you as you really are, as you see yourself. And you looked at everyone else and saw them as they see themselves. Our world would be a very different place, wouldn't it?

It's like working and working at a job and never getting paid. We can exist on "I will get paid someday" but it wears thin after a while. We begin to wonder if there's really someone behind the door of the Boss's big corner office...

A historical perspective on the events that led up to the destruction of the Holy Temple

On the awesome day of Rosh Hashanah, G-d shifts into transcendent mode. "The Throne of Judgment," our sages call it. Our mission: to re-awaken the flow of energy to the cosmos. To re-engage G-d

There's actually a clear ruling in Shulchan Aruch, the Torah's "Code of Law." This law does not even speak about the land of Israel -- it applies equally to Jerusalem and to Wellington, New Zealand

If He had made the world a complete and utter mystery, we would have no path to know Him. But if all would fit together like a neat and tidy grandfather clock, we would not know that there is anything more to know...

We philosophized our way to science, and then science led us through the doorway into mysticism. But we still don’t know how to live our lives.