Category : Education

Only when mediated by the self-critical aspect of justice does tzedakah (charity) have the power to draw God's kindness into the world. This check and balance relationship is...

The quality of grace (chen) is constantly paired with the attribute of kindness (chesed), and the phrase "grace and kindness" (chen v'chesed) appears often in...

The only way for us to express our potential of grace and beauty, and insure that it comes from the side of holiness and not...

Kabbalah teaches that each of the twelve tribes of Israel represents a particular sensitivity of soul: Yehuda relates to speech; Issachar to thought; Zebulin to...

As we saw at the outset, the basic root of chinuch appears most frequently in the Bible in the sense of "inauguration" and "initiation" [see footnote #1]. However,...

The seventh and final skill that a teacher must acquire is the ability to use reward and punishment in monitoring his students' progress. The teacher...

Prayer notwithstanding, it is still often necessary to confront certain habits head on and refuse to indulge them any more. The teacher needs to remember...

Two currents of energy influence the conscious level of the human personality. The first is from "above" originating within the Divine soul. It is a...

Every human being is a confederacy of parts as expressed most explicitly in the Hebrew word adam meaning "man," which can be divided into two fragments. The...