It is said that we have two eyes for a reason: one eye to see the beauty and warmth in our friends, and the other to look inside ourselves to see what is wrong with us so we can transform it. It is so much easier to look for what is wrong in a person...
There is a beautiful story that I told in a recent lecture. I’m sure I have written it down before, but it is so powerful for this time, for this month of Aquarius, that I want to share it with you again. It is a story about a great tzadik, a righteous rabbi. One day,...
I’ve said this before, but it takes only one small candle to bring Light to a darkened room. We have the power to be that small light every time we choose to make a difference in one person’s life. Being that candle doesn’t require a great deal from us—it’s the way we smile, the way...
It’s no secret that there is horrible chaos erupting all over the world at this time. Some regions are shrouded in such darkness and pain that it is even hard for most of us to even wrap our heads around what is happening. For this reason, those of us who are perhaps more in tune...
All of us are tested each day. The question is whether we can, in the midst of our difficulties and pain, find it within ourselves to say, “Whatever place I find myself in is here so that I can become someone better in the future.” In the middle of a bankruptcy or during the breakdown...
Sometimes a person who has helped us in the past does one small thing in the present that we perceive as “being against us,” and we forget all the good that came before. A concept that we often return to in our studies of Kabbalah is that if someone has given you something of value...
The way we receive the most satisfaction in our life is through the knowing that without the Divine Light—that part of us connecting us to the infinite Lifeforce of the Creator—we are nothing. In this kind of true humility, we can receive all the blessings the Creator intends for us. Consider this: A person goes...
