The soul is selfless. For, like the Creator, our soul has but one desire – to share. After the sin of the Golden Calf, the Creator wanted to destroy the people – to essentially hit the reboot button, and start over. Moses challenges God, “If you bring destruction on these people, then destroy me too. Erase...
In Hebrew, the word Noach (Noah), means “to be comfortable.” This should already tell us a little bit about the energy that exists in the cosmos this week, and how we can grow spiritually from it. We read in the Torah, “The earth was also corrupt before God, and the earth was full of violence....
This week’s portion is Ki Tetze, which opens with the words: Ki tetze la milchamah. This is normally translated to mean, “When you go forth to war.” Yet the word ki does not really mean when, but rather because. In a nutshell, the beginning of this week’s portion tells us: Because you go to war...
The fulfillment we seek in this world lies in the spiritual work of overpowering the consciousness that life is “only about me.” If we spend our days chasing things that do not satisfy our soul’s deepest desires for fulfillment, we will eventually feel empty and joyless. If we work only to serve the body, we...
Letting go of ego means listening to another completely—even when we don’t agree with what they have to say. It means allowing someone to have a differing opinion—and not turning it into a war of words. It means being in a place where we recognize that we don’t have to take offense—just because someone doesn’t...
