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. These conversations were derived from actual classes given by Rav Pinson at the IYYUN
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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 is pleasant to look at and good to eat, [including] the Tree
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Who Are We? Reaching a Deeper Understanding of Self An Exploration of the Soul
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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 where, and when, we are mature enough to realize that
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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 that even after our physical demise we will continue to exist
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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 very fact of speaking about our beliefs makes our inner
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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.
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