Shorts
What to Do When You Are On the Verge of Giving Up
The secret is to just keep going. Forge ahead.
Read MoreHow to Renew Yourself
Theme: Personal Rebirth
Regardless of how burned out you may feel, there are three basic steps you can take to spiritually and emotionally renew yourself. The fruit of your labor will be the return of a sparkle in your eye and the spirit of innovation in your heart and mind.
How to Get Yourself to Work Out
Theme: Spiritual Wellness
Deeper motivation and insight into the spiritual value of fitness can elevate your experience of working out, which will help you develop a positive relationship with it.
Fire of the Soul
Theme: The Kabbalah of Fire
All man’s greatest achievements, his noblest acts, his deepest loves – draw from the soul’s passionate fire.
Does Insecurity Stand In the Way of Your Success?
Theme: Fear of Success
If you are in a pattern of self-sabotage and/or underachieving, it is healthy to evaluate your sense of self-worth and your self-confidence. Our fears, inhibitions, and low self-confidence thrive when we don’t have clarity.
When You Can’t Turn Back the Clock
Theme: You Cannot Turn Back the Clock
What can you do when you have regrets but cannot turn back the clock?
Read MorePride, Strength, and Kindness When Confronted With Violence and Hatred
Theme: Responding to Tragedy
How should we react to violence and hatred like that of the recent massacre in Pittsburgh? Our outrage is very profound, but productive outrage is not expressed through retaliation or through fear, but through positive action, and ultimately recognizing that there is a calling that we have to live up to.
Slichos Song by Phillip Namanworth
Rosh Hashanah — head of the Year. The control center of our hearts and minds is open to rebuilding.
Read MoreThe Spiral Staircase
A great mystic uses the “spiral staircase” as an analogy for life’s cycles. What today is at the bottom, will tomorrow be at the top. And like a spiral staircase, we turn our backs to the destination just before we reach its peak.
Read MoreHow to Access Your Inner Genius
What you perceive your intellectual limits to be is subjective; nobody truly knows his or her own limits. You have the power to transcend your natural boundaries. It is possible to stretch your mind and intellectual horizons, not just quantitatively but qualitatively. You can do so through two ways.
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