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 Tzvi Freeman, a senior editor at Chabad.org, is also author of several books, including Wisdom to Heal the Earth. He writes Chabad.org's highly popular Daily Dose of Wisdom. Rabbi Freeman served for five years as mashpia of the West Coast Rabbinic Seminary in Los Angeles, and currently resides in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Subscribe to regular updates of Rabbi Freeman's writing with the Freeman Files subscription.
…and how to get on the right track
1. Myth: Nobody goes to a Kabbalah class expecting to actually understand anything. Truth: Kabbalah is about the human mind grasping the ungraspable. As in every discipline, we’re never able to grasp everything. Physicists admit they don’t grasp what real...
You are three people, one nested within the other. You are a divine person. Nested within a rational person. Nested within an animal person. The divine person within you is drawn upward, like the flame of a candle, towards the spiritual and the divine. It...
Within you is a divine person nested within a human, rational person, nested within a human beast. What does a perfect, divine soul have to gain from nesting within a visceral body, refining and taming a human beast? Everything. The stubborn defiance of y...
The Baal Shem Tov insisted that when you do a favor for another, there must be no strings attached and no expectations. Of course, you want this person to become a better person, a more spiritual person, to fulfill the purpose for which this soul came to ...
Hillel would say, “Be of the disciples of Aaron. Love peace. Chase after peace. Love every person that G‑d created, and draw them to Torah.” —Mishnah Avot Hillel the Elder is speaking about those who are so distant from G‑d and His service that their only...
Here's a thought that can pick you up, and even has the power to pick up the whole world.
Let's all leave ourselves behind this Passover
In denial, we humans are the oblivious jackhammer at the symphony, pounding away at the foundations of our environment, ripping the very fibers of the cosmic order.
Another thing about your kosher inner animal: Having a split hoof means it points in two directions at once. That's important. Because if you want your animal to shine, never let it go in just one direction. It has to go to the right—to reach out to other...
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