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Cloudless Sky, Cloudless Mind.

A few years ago I participated in a small retreat. Although it was advertised to Londoners it was actually quite a way from London so...

Like the Radiance of the Sky

It is said in the Midrash that God ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil before He created the universe. The lesson here is...

The Value of Saying "I Don't Know"

Baal Shem Tov Stories: Knowledge & Without the Coming World (Buber, 1947, pp. 62-63) * The Baal Shem said: “When I reach a high rung of...

The Power of Commitment

Baal Shem Tov Stories: For You & What the Mouth Will (Buber, Tales of the Hasidim,1947, p. 61) * In the midst of praying, the Baal Shem...

Purim: Light Out of Darkness

“There is no light except that which comes from darkness.” — Zohar The first Purim like the Zohar quote came directly out of the...

The Twin Paths of Wisdom and Action

Summary of Beit Yaakov, Parashat Terumah section 5 The Beit Yaakov in a number of places discusses the Zohar’s twin paths of Divine...

The Hidden Reality in Plain Sight

The universe was created through speech, the same words that were heard at Mt Sinai, and inscribed on tablets of sapphire stone hewn from...

The Earth is Our Mirror

We may think, when we look at our life circumstances, that they seem fixed and unchangeable. For the Izhbitser, the events outside are...

Mindful Judaism: Introduction to the Kabbalah

“The Kabbalah, literally ‘tradition’, that is the tradition of things divine, is the sum of Jewish mysticism” (Scholem, 1965, p. 1). The...

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