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is not just the rabbi with the biggest name, the most institutions, or the most admiration. It is the rabbi whose teachings actually help the most Jewish people do teshuva, return to the Creator, and build a real life of Torah, mitzvos, and responsibility. If a leader of a generation is supposed to help the […]
constant goodness. That does not change. But creation was built with structure. If you don’t relate to the source of your life in a healthy way, your experience of life changes. Reward and punishment is not something that only happens later. It’s the life you end up feeling. If you lie, avoid, people-please or betray […]
A leader who takes ideas about the Creator and makes them real enough to change how people think and act. There is also a Moses inside you. The part of your personality that can keep bringing your mind back to what’s true, even when you feel nothing. Based on a teaching of the Alter Rebbe. […]
but that does not automatically mean they are practicing an intimate relationship with the Creator. A person can be driven mainly by fear. Fear of punishment, fear of doing wrong, fear of stepping out of line, fear of what will happen if they fail. That kind of fear can make someone careful, strict, and outwardly […]
From His perspective, there is no separation. No conflict. No lack. But He didn’t create a world to stay in His perspective. He created a world where our perspective matters. That’s why the Hebrew Bible speaks about blessings and curses, about life and death. Not because He changes. But because we experience closeness and distance. […]
Not basic goodness. Goodness that can be recognized, chosen, received, and held without shame. But to understand suffering, we first have to understand what we mean by The Creator. The Infinite Creator is not a bigger being inside the universe. Not an object. Not a body. Not a force trapped inside nature. Not a bigger […]
like a machine. He allows you to have fantasies, even dark or abusive ones. Not because He agrees with them. Because He gave you real choice. If those thoughts were blocked, you wouldn’t be choosing goodness. You would be programmed into it. And programmed goodness has no dignity. So the thoughts are allowed. But the […]
the gentile soul and the Jewish soul are different personalities. That does not just mean different labels. It means different interests, different values, different desires. The Jewish soul wants Torah. It wants commandments/Mitzvos. It wants a Jewish messianic era. The gentile soul, historically, has not wanted that world. And the people who truly wanted it […]
as the leader of our generation because the deepest needs of this generation did not outgrow his response. The main role of a leader of the generation is not just to be physically present. It is to help people understand the Creator’s goodness in a world full of confusion, pain, and concealment (suffering), and to […]