Protecting Faith From Superstition
BASED ON A CLASS GIVEN ON MOTZA'EI SHABBAT SHOFTIM | SEPTEMBER 10TH, 2005 | IN CROWN HEIGHTS In the portion of Shoftim, we find one of the...
Category : Chassidic Psychology
Parashat Balak: Prophetic Powers
Parashat Balak recounts the attempt of Balak, the king of Moav, to hire the heathen prophet Balaam to curse the nation of Israel. Balak was...
Parashat Chukat: Paradoxes of the Ego
Our parashah begins, This is the statute of the Torah that God commanded, saying, speak to the Children of Israel and have them take for...
Short Insights on Names, Souls, and their Elevation
We all seek to move forward and improve. We all seek to better ourselves and believe that it would be best if we could realize...
Lifting Others
Every year, HaRav Ginsburgh teaches from a particular Chasidic work and many of these classes are published in Nifla’ot, the Hebrew language counterpart to Wonders....
Sefirot HaOmer Insights
From the second day of Pesach, the holiday celebrating the Exodus from Egypt, and the holiday of Shavu’ot, when the Torah was given on Mount...
Part 2: Immaturity, Maturity, and Time
Continuing the theme of immaturity and maturity with regard to the Kabbalistic intentions (kavanot) of Sefirat HaOmer begun in our previous issue, this article explores...
The Journey from Immaturity to Maturity
The beginning of a person's life, from the onset of pregnancy through full maturity, is a manifest process of development, from smallness, or immaturity, to...
Five Dynamics of Leadership: A Sense of Holy Folly
This week, we complete our review of HaRav Ginsburgh’s book, Awakening the Spark Within: Five Dynamics of Leadership that Can Change the World. Having treated...
Submission, Separation and Sweetening on Pesach
One of the most important teachings of the Ba’al Shem Tov is that every process, whether material or spiritual, progresses through three stages: submission (hachna’ah),...
