about building a synagogue show that people need more than just the right ideas to feel the Creator’s presence. “The Creator doesn’t need a building. you need help feeling his presence.” The Creator is everywhere, but we are not aware everywhere, and our felt awareness changes throughout the day. Our nervous systems get pulled into […]
as the leader of the generation, then who do they accept? “Want to feel awe? Read the worlds of King David in psalms. They train you to feel the creators greatness, closeness, and your place.” After Moses, leadership didn’t disappear. It’s the rabbi whose teachings are guiding the most Jewish people toward real relationship with […]
will not just believe that the Creator exists. “The messianic era means living with the felt truth that your personality matters to the creator.” They will live with a felt sense that their life matters to the Creator, and that their personality matters too. Not just whether they technically did the right thing. But how […]
There are only a few situations that are meant to feel that serious. A wedding is not one of them. A holiday is not one of them. Hosting guests is not one of them. But when you go into debt for them, you end up living in survival mode more often. That means something is […]
It keeps the mind busy scanning, predicting, and trying to stay in control. It asks: What is wrong? What could go bad? How do I protect myself? How do I not get hurt again? That kind of thinking can feel smart. But often, it is the mind trying to survive. Relationship mode is different. It […]
“Your values are shaped not only by what you believe, but by what your emotional skills allow you to recognize, tolerate, and live.” But values are also shaped by emotional skill. Because you do not only choose from ideas. You choose from the emotional capacities you have developed. If you have little self-compassion, you may […]
-repair can only happen in the physical world. Because this is where you can still choose. This is where you can learn to confess: “I was wrong.” “I want to begin again.” “I want to be honest.” “I want to repair.” Here, relationship is active. It has resistance. It has ego. It has the ability […]
is baseless hatred pretending to be theology. “Replacement theology projects human hatred onto th ecreator. It imagines that the Creator rejects souls the way insecure people reject each other. “ It projects human rejection onto The Creator. It takes the logic of rivalry, rejection, and erasure, and imagines that The Creator relates that way too. […]
“The creator relates to the world. Humanity chooses weather that world feels like cruelty or goodness.” That relationship is constant. But humanity does choose what kind of world He is relating to. A world shaped by cruelty or a world shaped by goodness. The Creator gives existence. Humans give it direction.
“The desire for intimacy is the desire to not be alone inside yourself.” It is made of movement. First there is pleasure. Pleasure is the basic goodness of life, the fact that existence can be felt as valuable, meaningful, or fulfilling. Then pleasure becomes desire. Desire is when life reaches toward something. Toward love, safety, […]