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The Creator did not make a world where relationship only happens in light (goodness), clarity, pleasure, and success. He made a world where even confusion, shame, loneliness, fear, failure, and pain can become places...
From the beginning, the Creator gave Adam and Eve instructions for how to live in relationship with Him, with each other, and with the Oneness behind creation. But when a person lacks emotional awareness, instructions...
"The ego does not always tell a person to stop learning Torah. Sometimes it encourages the student to restrict his studies to abstract Talmudic subjects and to avoid those books that would inspire change [in...
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It comes after the Messianic era (which may be an era that is for 1 day or 200+ years, depends on when all the Jewish people learn to trust the Creator is good and accept the leadership/teachings of the 'Moses' He...
because it explains how to have the most positive relationship with existence. It teaches that the cause of the universe is not blind, random, or emotionally empty. The Creator has free choice, intelligence, and a...
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can keep giving chances because it is not swallowed by the emotion of the moment; it stands high enough to see the person, the failure, the purpose, and the future. Malchus means connecting through distance: 'I feel...
Halacha means [Oral] Torah law: the Creator's instructions for turning faith, love, awe, wisdom, and responsibility into actions that reveal Oneness. Torah law (from the Hebrew Bible) is based on a belief that the...
, "What should a person do to become wise in Torah?" he replied, "He should spend more time studying in a yeshiva, and less time engaged in business", "He must also plead for mercy from Him to Whom wisdom belongs –...
But everyone does. You can believe the cause of the universe is random. You can believe it exists but is too distant or mysterious to know anything about. Or you can believe that what exists within the universe...
like deep awe is often to listen to a nigun. The Alter Rebbe's nigun "Kol Dodi Dofek" is based on the verse: "I sleep, but my heart is awake. The voice of my beloved is knocking." Song of Songs 5:2...
Physics shows that reality is built with order, consistency, and laws. If the universe is reliable, it is reasonable to trust that the Creator, the Cause of that universe, is reliable too. Related guides: "If...
, he carefully explains why Rashi asks certain questions, why he chooses one explanation over another, and how every word fits into a larger method. It is not uncommon for the Rebbe to spend 5–10 pages explaining only...
discussed by Rabbeinu Bachya ibn Pekudah, who published many of his teachings in Judeo-Arabic. One of the ideas he teaches is that every soul accepted its mission before entering this world. Life is not an accident...
Often, it is about healing the patterns that stop you from showing up. The adaptive nervous system learns patterns to help you survive difficult experiences, beginning in childhood. Fight says: "I need to protect...
Every thought comes from one of seven emotional qualities. Kabbalah teaches that each quality can be expressed in a healthy way or a misguided way. A misguided expression is called a fallen spark. _______________...
It means goodness becomes so clear that you feel deeply compelled to make good choices. Your outlook on life and existence becomes more positive because reality is experienced with more revealed goodness...
by teaching them to see Chabad through suspicion before they ever learned it from its own sources. That was not Torah greatness. Torah and ahavas Yisrael are united. Rav Shach z"l was a great Rosh Yeshiva and made...
It is the word people use for the Creator of the universe, the One Cause behind all existence. "If everything that exists were dependent on something else for existence, nothing would ever exist." — Maimonides But the...
They are a structure for how a human being stands inside reality. The Rambam gives the foundation: Reality has one Creator. The Creator is not physical. He does not change. He alone is worthy of prayer. Torah is true...
They become part of the emotional world your nervous system has to live inside. You did not choose every belief or survival pattern you inherited, but you can choose how you work with them now. By nervous system, I...
The Creator gives light, life, pleasure, meaning, and relationship. Human beings build the vessel. This began with Adam and Eve. They were close to The Creator, but after they 'felt separate through sin' they did not...
They can describe qualities: wise, kind, powerful, patient, giving, alive. They can describe experiences: joy, sadness, fear, pleasure, wonder. They can describe roles: king, creator, father, teacher, judge. But words...
Table of Contents – Or a much shorter version of the ideas in this post. Table of Contents A strange thing happens when a person starts believing things happen for no reason. The nervous system has a personality...
Table of Contents The Messiah will not only teach higher mystical ideas. Why Relationship Means Responsibility A Different Kind of Spirituality Mystical Ideas Must Change a Person Standing Before the King The Messiah...
