G-dly Soul, The

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Men, women and children showed up at Mount Sinai, where they would receive the Torah. Only seven weeks earlier, the very same people stood steeped in the mental, physical, and spiritual disease of slavery in Egypt...

On an overcast morning one Fourth of July, sullen clouds hinting to the imminent fall of rain, I came to a Forensic Psychiatric Ward in Northern Connecticut.

If the core of my being is a "spark of G‑d," then where is the me in me? Is this idea that I have of myself as an "individual" a lie?

The paradox of the flame's life: its attachment to wick and fuel in the lamp sustains both its continued existence and its incessant striving for oblivion

We have seen the potential for destruction in the release of the energy in a single atome. How much greater is the positive creative power entrusted to every individual in harmony with the Divine purpose...

Escape the prison of "being that."

An historic controversy arose between the Rabbis and sectarians as to the meaning of the command: "And you shall count unto you from the morrow after the Shabbat." Although the Rabbis proved their case, why did the Torah use a word so open to misinterpret...

Our Parshah begins by mentioning the death of Nadav and Avihu, the sons of Aaron. Their death is something of a mystery, for while they seemed to have been punished for their faults (no less than 14 different "sins" and shortcomings are enumerated by the ...