The Jewish Mind

After G-d gave the Ten Commandments... "The appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a consuming fire atop the mountain, before the eyes of the children of Israel. And Moses came within the cloud, and he went up to the mountain, and Moses was upon the mountain forty days and forty nights." -Exodus 24:17-18 "Within the cloud:This cloud was a kind of smoke, and the Holy One, blessed is He, made...

"The people remained far off, but Moses drew near to the 'Arophel,' (Opaque darkness; Thick of the cloud) where G-d was." -Exodus 20:18 Why did G-d have to give the Children of Israel the Torah, if our forefathers already knew the Torah through Divine Inspiration? There are three reasons why, which build and expand upon each other. In this lecture you will learn the secret of the Arophel, the opaq...

"And with a mighty hand he [Pharaoh] will drive them out of his land," -Exodus 6:1 "Against Israel’s will he will drive them out, and they will not have time to make provisions for themselves, and so He says, ‘And the Egyptians pressed the people strongly...’ " -Rashi ibid "One out of five [Israelites] went out, and four fifths [lit., parts of the people] died during the three days of darkness." (...

G-d has come to His garden, which called Earth. It is here that we can have a conscious relationship with G-d. What is a relationship? How do we get into relationship? How do we maintain a relationship? Why do some people feel lonely in their relationship? In this lecture you will learn different levels of relationships, how to get into them, and how to maintain them, starting with having a consci...

Have you ever wondered what the secret to explosive success is? Explosive Success definitely demands emotions, however, emotions that endure. Have you ever wondered what the secret to endurance is? Why do some people have focus, endurance, and will-power, while others don't? Is it just genetic? Is it just the way we were nurtured? Hear why Moses had to be eighty years old in order to to lead the J...

Title: Be a Star with a Name Learning how to shine. The Book of Exodus begins with G-d counting Jacob and his family who came to Egypt. However, G-d already counted the same family of 70 members in the Book of Genesis, when it tells of how Jacob and his family joined Joseph in Egypt! Why does G-d count them twice, when they were alive and came to Egypt, and then again after they died in Egypt? "To...

The Holy Temple had two altars, and outer altar for sacrifices, and an inner altar for incense. The Human Temple has two hearts, and outer heart and an inner heart. The outer heart is susceptible to being influenced by the evolution of our mind, maturity, and by that which we see, hear, and experience with others. The inner heart is not influenced by the individual's perception, maturity, or exper...

Prayer is different that Torah-study. Torah-study is focused on G-d's words to me, while prayer is focused on my words to G-d. However, before we pray we say, "My L-rd, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare Your praise." -Psalms 51:17 This verse is far more than just lip-service. When said right, this one-verse makes all the difference in prayer. It is the secret of (a) how to have our prayer g...

Eradicate the Axis of Evil ~Understanding the Chanukah Story. President George W. Bush used the term “axis of evil” in his State of the Union Address on January 29, 2002 to describe governments that he accused of helping terrorism. What is G-d’s definition of “axis of evil’? The Chanukah war was not just against evil, but also against the axis of evil. Today, in a world wrought with terrorism, we...

Holy Smoke! ~Bringing G-d into our smoke. The concept of 'Holy Smoke' comes from the holiest soul, in the holiest place, on the holiest day, making smoke! Once a year, on Yom Kippur, the High Priest would enter into the room within the Holy Temple in Jerusalem called the Holy of Holies, and place incense in front of the Holy Ark. The law of this commandment was that the entire Holy of Holies was t...

Link mentioned in the lecture: http://www.fifthsense.org.uk/what_is_smell/psychology/ Jacob sent gifts to Esau in hope to appease Esau's anger and hatred towards Jacob. What is the mystical meaning behind this, and how is this mystical meaning a guidance for us to bring about transformation in our personal lives? In this lecture we explore which service to G-d is considered a gift to G-d. We also...

How To Attract Success ~Understanding beyond the fear of success Matina Souretis Horner (born July 28, 1939) is an American psychologist who was the sixth president of Radcliffe College. She is most well-known for pioneering the concept of "fear of success." Many others in the field have discussed this paralyzing fear as well. The book, Fear of Success by David Ward Tresemer, D.W. is dedicated to...

"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently...” -Abraham Lincoln; Illinois State Capital June 16, 1860 “And these are the offspring of Isaac the son of Abraham, Abraham begot Isaac.” -Genesis 25:19; Mount Sinai 2448 (1313 BCE) Amazingly enough Abraham Lincoln was teaching us what the Torah, in this week's Torah-portion was teaching us. If Issa...

Stability is what we look for in others who we interact with, and even more than this, it is what we look for in ourselves. What is the secret to stability? Can stability survive the roller-coaster of change that life throws upon us? How can we empower the essence of stability in our life? All this and more are discussed in this lecture.

The Prophet's Wife ~Understanding a timeless story of the prophets. This week's Haftorah starts with a story of a widow and her two sons who were suffering from extreme poverty, and the collector was threatening to take her two sons as slaves for payment. The woman cries out to Elisha the Prophet, who performs a miracle, filling all the empty containers in her house with oil, for her to sell and b...

G-d commanded Abraham, "Go to yourself!" What does it mean to go to yourself? Why did Abraham have to physically leave the land of his birthplace and his father's home, and go to the Holy Land of Israel (to be) in order to go to himself? Understanding the spiritual evolution of the different worlds, we come to find the answer to this questions. Then, we explore what this means to you and I today.

The story of Noah and the Flood is in the Torah because it has an eternal lesson to each and every individual, in every generation, and in every geographical location in the world. What is the lesson? The flood is called the "Waters of Raging Chaos," and it is called the "Waters of Comfort." Well, Which is it? Both! For one transforms into the other. Listen and learn how.

Moses says that the commandments are close to us, the Rebbe says that G-d never gave us a contract that life will be easy? What are they each saying, and how are these two statements mutually inclusive? Why is Rosh hashanah on the sixth day of creation, rather than, on the first day of creation? Why is mankind the centerpiece of the universe? What does the verse mean that G-d said, "Let 'US' creat...

"I am unto my beloved and my beloved is unto me." The verse speaks of two different relationships. One is the person below reaching up to G-d, our Beloved, and the other is G-d reaching out to us below. The first relationship is the pre-High Holiday experience, when we search our heart and return to G-d. The second relationship is the High Holidays, when G-d's presence reaches out to us. However,...

“If you go out to war on your enemies... and you take his captives, and you see among the captives a beautiful woman and you desire her, you may take [her] for yourself as a wife.... and she shall shave her head and let her nails grow. And she shall remove the garment of her captivity from upon herself, and stay in your house, and weep for her father and her mother for a full month. After that, yo...

What does Napoleon Hill mean when he writes that his decade of of research for his book Think and Grow Rich has shown him that every successful man is in love with a woman? Why is the Evil Inclination called The Great King, while the Good Inclination is called The Poor Wise Man? How is this all explained in the spiritual soul of the commandment, "Judges and officers you shall place at all your gat...

Creation, by definition is small, created from the smaller Emotion Emanations, while the Torah manifests the greater Intellect Emanations. Thus, through studying-Torah, we are magnified, so to speak, in the eyes of G-d. Additionally, Torah-study, has the Bird's-eye view, and genetically transforms the Jungle of this world into the Garden of true Essence Pleasure. Tefillin, on the other hand, cause...

Why is it so within human nature to struggle with consistency?! To me, it seems as if only the chosen few were blessed with the personality profile groomed for consistency, and it comes with such a heavy price upon other areas of the personality profile, that it makes someone like me grateful that I am not so blessed! This is what we are going to explore here, from a Kabbalistic and Chassidic pers...

What is a rich man's prayer? What does rich mean? What is the secret of the Red Heifer? Discover a 3D Judaism, and how to embrace it!

One's capacity to have peace with others depends upon his having peace within himself. However, the mind (cold and calm) and the heart (hot and excited) are pivoted for war! How can there ever be inner-peace?! Learn how from a Kabbalistic Bird's-eye view, drawn down into a business plan for success by the Small Business Guru, Michael Gerber, and the decades of research of Napoleon Hill. This then...