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The Other Side of the Tapestry

The Other Side of the Tapestry St. Paul, Minnesota, February, 1979 I sat in the hall waiting for the program to start. I felt alone in a room filled with hundreds of people. I had cancelled my trip to the country. Instead, I was here, in this hall full of chassidic Jews – a stranger […]

Coming in Second

Coming in Second Last week, I went camping overnight in the mountains of upstate New York. As I was relaxing on the beach of a beautiful mountain lake, watching happy campers boating and swimming, I spied a group of five young children playing a game on the beach. They were racing from the lifeguard’s chair […]

The Kabbalah of Love

The Kabbalah of Love Intimate Love. What feelings do these words stir up in you? Longing? Excitement? Pleasure? Fear? Whatever the feeling, if thinking about intimate love makes your heart beat faster, I’m not surprised. This feeling is more powerful than almost any we can experience. That’s because it’s nothing less than the touching of […]

Chaos & Metamorphosis

I’ve always been an emotional person, and the disconcerting thing has been that my emotions have a tendency to swing in dramatic ways. As I move forward in my inner geula work, there is far more joy and the joy is far brighter and more sparkling, filled with amazement and gratitude much of the time. […]

Cracks in the SnowGlobe

Once upon a time, some ten  years or so ago, I had an energy healing session with a very powerful woman. I slipped into a deep place, where I had a clear and tangible vision of all of humanity trapped together inside of an enormous snowglobe, literally tangled around one another like creatures in medieval […]

A Deeper Truth: Finding Divine Power in Turbulent Times

“Everything will turn out good in the end, and if it’s not good, then it’s not yet the end.” Tonight at sunset the world enters into a sacred space that the Jewish people know as Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. In actual fact for these 25 hours we are invited to enter a level […]

The Kabbalah of Speech

“In the sixth century of the sixth millennium, the gates of supernal [heavenly] wisdom will be opened, as will the wellsprings of earthly wisdom, preparing the world to be elevated in the seventh millennium.” The Zohar (a source text of Kabbalah) TRY SAYING THESE WORDS TO YOURSELF: Depressed, sad, afraid, guilty, alone, weak, fragmented, disconnected, […]

The Secret Power of Ego

The Key to True Love Do you long for love? Most of us do. The intimate touch of another soul is the most powerful antidote for the all-too-human experience of aloneness. It may be the most compelling and pleasurable experience there is. So why do we spend so much of our time and energy avoiding […]

Breaking Out of Your Inner Jail

“In the sixth century of the sixth millennium, the gates of supernal [heavenly] wisdom will be opened, as will the wellsprings of earthly wisdom, preparing the world to be elevated in the seventh millennium.” The Zohar (a source text of Kabbalah) The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and […]