Dangerous Kabbalah

Loose an argument and win a friend
Many millennium ago in the lands of just east of the Nile and west of the Euphrates there happened to be two very different generations, their differences recorded by the ancient Kabbalists describe one generation as being very religious and pious and the other much less pious and very […]

Learn From The Trees and the Naturally Beautiful Fields
Separating the World from God is Suicide !
The Ethics of the Fathers teaches that ‘If you are learning and meditating on God and you stop to look at a beautiful tree or a beautiful field you forfeit your life.’ That to me has always seemed a little […]

Stop running Way From Yourself !
I’ve always been puzzled by young, intelligent, movers and shakers in the Jewish community upping and moving to Israel, it seems so dualistic, and short sighted.
The primary motive they cite is that they don’t feel comfortable in the Diaspora and that they feel really Jewish in the Land of Israel […]

My wife and I have been blessed with a baby boy, and almost from conception we chose to follow a particular baby expert’s advice.
We bought all the books, followed her advice meticulously. The promise was that by three months he would be sleeping from about 12-7am. Her schedules dictated every minute of the day of […]

There is a call for an overhaul of Judaism as it is today, the problem is that we all must be intimately familiar with the Torah and the Talmud and in fact the entire Oral Torah – that is every blade of glass on this football pitch of Judaism, for us to really take back […]

The ONLY reason why Yom Kippur is such a big ‘Jewish’ holy day is because most Jews have addopted the Christian culture, it is our token day of Catholicism. It, like the contemporary Jewish celebration of the Holocaust, and the state of Israel, represent a new branch of Jewish obseverance and ritual, it if filled […]

One of the most important theologically charged statements in the Bible, which is recited perhaps 4-5 times a day by the Observant Jews (and it’s something that i’m sure you’ve said yourself) is the ‘Shema’.
the first word of the Shema - is the word Shema - and it simply means LISTEN!!!
It itself is a profoundly […]

Of course it is vital to make whatever it is you are doing, meaningful for you, so that you live a life that is full of meaning. To find reason, purpose and fulfilment in the rituals, to look and search for notions and ideas that resonate with your deepest being.
However, the Talmud is not the […]