This piece is an excerpt from:
‘The Garden of Paradox’ – The Essence of Non Dual Kabbalah in 3 Conversations.

The conversation occurs in Rav Pinson’s study with three representational students,
embodying respectively, the philosopher, the activist and the mystic.…

Following the River back to its Source

from the introduction to ‘The Garden of Paradox’ by Rav DovBer Pinson

G-d planted a Garden in Eden… and placed there the human… G-d made grow out of the ground every tree that …

Who Are We?
Reaching a Deeper Understanding of Self

An Exploration of the Soul

The distinction is quite clear, heaven is where it is me and you, hell is me or you. Hell is where, and for that matter when, we cannot stand seeing another human beings pleasure, heaven, on the other hand, is …

Humans are the only creatures on earth -at least this is what humans think- who are aware of their own mortality. We are finite, and being conscious of our finitude we quest for immortality.

True, on one level we realize …

We all believe. “Israel are believers, the sons of believers.” Some of us are consciously aware of our innate beliefs; others of us are not because life experiences and negative indoctrination have covered over our essential selves. At times, the …

The going out of Egypt is viewed as the birth of the nation of Israel. The preceding enslavement was the labor pains, and the exodus, the birth. So let’s observe the language the Torah employs when discussing the nation’s birth and see if we can unearth a pattern that bespeaks national identity development and spiritual evolution.