The holiday of Shavuot is a celebration of the ‘Giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai’— when infinite Divine intelligence was revealed within the finite world of time and space.
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Charity: Two “Owners†The charity that is given from the more fortunate to the less fortunate establishes a relationship between 'giver' and 'receiver' and ultimately reveals a deep bond between the two 'owners'—the person who gives it away and the person who now has it in their
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BEING IN THE PRESENT: A prisoner, in the sixteenth century who was incarcerated for life was given a unique choice; one day of the year he was allowed to live a free man. . .
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A Basic Understanding “You shall love Hashem, your G-d, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. And these words which I command you today shall be upon your heart. You shall teach them thoroughly to your children, and you shall speak of them when you
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To err is human, we all make mistakes. "There is no righteous person on this earth who does [only] good and does not err," the wise King Shlomo wrote. And yet despite the fallibility of human beings, as a tremendous kindness, God has given us teshuvah—a way of returning to God
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The word teshuvah is normally translated as “repentanceâ€, yet teshuvah does not mean “repentanceâ€, rather it means ‘turning around.’
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Mitzvos operate in a paradoxical manner—they have finite formulas which we must grasp and somehow unite with the Infinite. The mitzvah to put on a
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We take a cup of water—with its chesed of natural undifferentiated seamless whole—and we empty it on gevurah, thus receiving the power to transform restrictions and concealment into vastness and openness.
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In English, the word prayer is employed to describe various activities such as, petition, intercession, adoration, devotion, penitence, thanksgiving, confession, protest, affirmation, introspection, contemplation and evaluation. While all these may be the branches of prayer, what is prayer itself?
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