Discover Your Ultlimate Purpose in Life: Receive to Give

To receive you must also give.

Most of us find it difficult to receive anything. We say we want or desire things, like increased income, a loving relation (or a better relationship) or a call telling us we have a new job or literary agent, but they don’t manifest. When we do receive something, even a tiny compliment, we have trouble [...]

Do You Question Your Beliefs?

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Do you ever question your beliefs about Your religion? Do you question God’s word, the value of the commandments, the teachings of the forefathers, the meaning of the rituals and prayers? They say the Jewish people are God wrestlers. We don’t always accept God’s word or anything to do with our religion without questions, without [...]

God is the Giver, We are the Receivers (Part 2)

As I wrote in yesterday’s post, we must give as well as receive. The two are integrally connected. Indeed, when we give, we open ourselves to receiving. We also become “like God,” since God is the Giver and we are the receivers. We, therefore, move closer to God, reducing the separation we tend to feel [...]

God is the Giver, We are the Receivers (Part 1)

One of the major premises in my work, both my writing and teaching, revolves around the need to give as well as to receive. The two are integrally connected. Indeed, when we give, we open ourselves to receiving. Yet, we don’t want to give in order to receive. When we give, we make room to [...]

What is Kabbalah? The Art of Becoming a Good Receiver

The Hebrew word kabbalah comes from the Hebrew verb “lekabbel,” whose root kbl means “to receive” or “to welcome.” Thus, Kabbalah means “receiving” or “reception.” Most people define Kabbalah as a wisdom tradition or mystical tradition received from teacher to student, handed down from generation to generation. Thus, we receive it from someone. We become [...]

From Lack to Abundance in One Fell Swoop

I’ve been mulling over how one can seemly go from lack to abundance in one fell swoop. Maybe it’s simply a mindset, though, a change in perspective. My husband felt the lack of a job so profoundly for the four and a half months he was unemployed. He also felt the lack of any job [...]

Receiving all the Goodness in the World

I was reading a book recommended to me by Avraham Loewenthal, a wonderful Kabbalistic artist in Tzfat, Israel, as well as a Kabbalist in his own right, when I was struck by two particular pieces of information. In Chapter 3 of “In the Shadow of the Ladder” by Rabbi Yehudah Lev Ashlag, the author explains [...]