Light of Infinite

If at every moment you can choose the path that you want to pursue, as the Talmud states, Hashem will help you towards the path of your choosing, then you have to ensure that you're in alignment & on a path of positivity! We shouldn’t ever look at ourselves as fully bad or fully good, cuz that can color how we approach the future & more often than not, in a negative way. If we realize that...

“The best fighter is never angry.” ― Lao Tzu The main problem with hitting the rock, which was born from a moment of imperfect faith by Moshe, was that it was an act of force. Moshe’s sin was in the moment of questioning, & the anger seeped in in that one tiny moment. The Maharal teaches: where there is complete faith, there is no room for anger, for there is great joy. What Korach didn’t unde...

Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev teaches that Korach (this parsha) didn’t think that Torah could assume the trappings of this world. It was at that moment that the earth “opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all Korach’s people and all their possessions.” He explains that it was as if the earth was saying, “If you’re unwilling to sanctify me through your deeds and to purify me...

As Big Sean raps on Justin Bieber ’s album, “Believe”, “the grass ain’t always greener on the other side. It’s green where you water it.” It’s like this with anything— our relationship with our partner, with life, and just the same or even more so with our Source, the Light of Infinite. We need to open our eyes & align with the present & have that presence manifest concretely. The verses b...

The truth is we all will fall time & again. The secret is to not view it negatively. Because life is only truly negative if we don’t use our fall toward elevation. If falling back pushes us forward, it’s a powerful tool towards transcendence. Just living, in and of itself, presents challenges, and each challenge is an opportunity to get it right the next time. If we can greet hate with love, o...

King Solomon writes in Mishlei/Proverbs that whatever a person pictures in their mind has the power to happen. Our power to draw down blessings is tied into the faith that colors our beings as vessels to receive. The law of attraction is simple yet profound— positive thoughts bring positivity into a person’s life. And since the opposite is also true, it’s that much more important to paint the pict...

We all have a Nefesh Elokit (part of God) in us, we just need to transcend the layers of doubt and unlock the powerful truth and redemption that awaits. It’s written in a Mishnah, “Every human being is unique, and every human being is a copy of the prototype human being (Adam)…therefore, every human being must say, ‘For my sake the world was created.’” The same Mishnah teaches, “that every life is...

For this week I wrote about how to bring more blessings into your life, which is outlined in the beginning of this Parashah. I brought in elements from Jon Batiste’s speech at the Grammy’s and some deep lyrics by Kendrick Lamar, and epic teachings by the Alter Rebbe and Rebbe Nachman, and as always, lots of Kabbalah around the Parashah! The two aspects of the ה (heh) in the Havayah bring to mind t...

All of life is about the beautiful balance of releasing control and connecting. Because we're tasked to toil for our bread, we find ourselves stuck in a mindset of thinking that we are in control of our lives, that the more that we dominate our circumstances, the more in control we are. What we find in the lessons of Shemita (the year of release) - which we read about in this week's Torah portion...

_“My kedushah (holiness) is greater than yours.”_ – *The Maggid of Mezrich* It’s not just an LA thing;), we’re all affected by vibes and energy. That’s why it’s so important to be mindful of the company we keep. I often place myself in what I call sacred spaces, cuz when people are there to reach higher levels of being, it means the base level of what’s expected is elevated. Life can be so preciou...

Everything in this world has the power for good or for evil, for elevation or degradation, just as we read about with the two goats. Even with air and breathing there is kedushah and sitra achra , Rebbe Nachman of Breslov teaches that there are two “lifelines” that we can draw in when breathing in air, one is the lifeline of kedusha , the other is of tumah . The righteous draw in pure air, while t...

All of Passover (Pesach) is an opportunity for bitul hayesh, to negate and nullify all traces of ego and self-centeredness, to transcend the illusion of self. I just wrote this Pesach & Omer companion called, ‘The Transformative Power of Pesach and Sefirat Ha’Omer’ that you might find interesting. #Linkinbio to read it in full. We can draw connections between the weekly portion from Leviticus...

I touched on this in the intro of my book - in the How to Exist in Love chapter. There this epic wisdom in these Torah portions, Tazria & Metzora, where we learned about tzarot (sad things), and that tzarot come from lashon hara (slander/negative speech), which means one is looking at people and oneself negatively.  This ayin hara (evil eye) leads to lashon hara, which means looking at people...

Kabbalah teaches that the world was created as a broken vessel; Hashem/God constricted himself and hid His good in the brokenness of the world. Reb Natan of Breslov says that our highest task is to choose to see His Light, to choose to let in and partner with Hashem, even when he is hidden. Our laws and customs, in ways so mysterious and in ways very obvious– literally turning our physical bodies...

When I can’t sleep, I often free-verse about whatever’s on my mind. It’s always interesting reading it the next morning. From the other night: The world is full of enough dissonance produce melody perform alchemy sift the good notes from the bad the serene from the siren song step in rhythm grow in concert we are all notes in this divine orchestra of existence It seems we all want to be one with o...

The entire journey is about trusting and fueling our perceptions of reality with emunah/faith rather than fear. There is this curious verse in the Torah that reads: 'אֵ֗שׁ תָּמִ֛יד תּוּקַ֥ד עַל־הַמִּזְבֵּ֖חַ לֹ֥א תִכְבֶּֽה' “A constant fire shall be kept burning on the altar; it shall not be extinguished.”   There is beauty in the imagery of a constant fire burning on an altar for Hashem, but Chas...

𝕊𝕡𝕚𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕦𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕫𝕖 ℝ𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪 - This week we read: “When one among you offers a sacrifice to G-d…”. Immediately, we ask, what sort of sacrifice? Why? and how? King David writes in Psalms, “For You [G-d] do not desire sacrifices; else I would give it: You do not delight in burnt offering. The sacrifice of God is a broken spirit. A broken & contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.”   Animal sacrifice...

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This week we are commanded to keep the Shabbat - there is no more elevated bridge between this world and the next; it’s the finite time and space where our soul feels tapped into the infinite. Its splendor is ineffable. Hashem created the world in six days, and on the seventh, He rested. We spend our days emulating Hashem in creating, in trying to conquer nature, to mold it into our desires, but o...

The last 139 days have been almost impossible to navigate the ups and downs that come with living in this difficult time… as Mark Ronson says, Nothing Breaks Like A Heart. I woke up today and it hit me that we’re all just scattered pieces of a broken soul trying to come together and make it whole. The Parashah opens with: “And you will command the Children of Israel that they shall take for you cl...

This week we read, “Speak to the Children of Israel & let them take for Me a portion, from every person whose **heart so moves them ** …”    As Miles Davis said, “Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.” Sometimes we get stuck in overthinking or feeling we have to do so much that we don’t do it at all, when really we need to focus on doing even just one thing, but d...

Ahava (ah-ha-va) /אהבה /love . In Hebrew, the root word for ‘love’ is related to the Aramaic word ‘hav’ which means “to give”. Loving is synonymous with giving — as real love is created. The basis of Jewish faith is action/giving of oneself, & it’s through the mitzvot/commandments that clarity, unification & love manifest themselves. This is the love we look for in partners & often fee...

Years ago I connected with Nissim Black and we did a slew of songs together. I have seen him get bigger and bigger, and his light has reached just about everyone I know.. We all have so much light within us. That’s why we feel so much light when we encounter someone that’s fully tapped into their own. I just played a show with him in LA and one line from his song with Levi Robin really resonated w...

The lesson that keeps coming up is that the path to the Promised Land is fraught with obstacles, & we each must overcome our doubts & confusions and continuously clarify our goals. This happened with Avraham, having to go to Egypt first & then we see it happening to the entire Jewish nation. Instead of being led on a direct path, God took them around. As Mac Miller sings on Hurt Feelin...

The first mitzvah/commandment given is to sanctify the New Moon. Rashi explains that Moshe wasn’t able to fully understand the mystery of the New Moon until Hashem showed him the exact moment of the moon’s renewal - and the deeper reason for the moon’s waxing & waning, one of the mysteries behind Creation, similar to the process of Tzimtzum – the contraction of God’s light – which led to the c...