Nothing is fixed or predetermined. By default there is NOTHING. We create EVERYTHING by thinking about it. Reality is like a white canvas, or like the paper we use for Origami. Until we fold the paper into a shape it is just plain paper. So is life. The universe, or our world, is the canvas…
Parashat Chukat פרשת חקת What did Moshe (Really!) do wrong? So why was moses not allowed to enter the land of Israel? Let’s start from the end: “And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron: ‘Because ye believed not in Me, to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not..
Since publishing my first article, I have received many comments from friends – mostly religious. Some told me that they thought of my words as heresy, but that they still loved me and asked me to stay the way I am… Now I’d like to delve a bit deeper into what I meant. The..
Here is an interesting thought about Iran and its behaviour towards Israel and the world. When the religious Ayatollahs seized power in Iran (back in 1979), their intention was to create an Islamic state while expanding their influence in the Arabic world. But there was an obstacle standing in their way, and it was definitely..
If we give it some thought, though we realize that:1 – it was absolutely necessary, and 2 – it was such a genius solution that only a very high intelligence would be able to understand it. Here is why.Every human being sins at some point in their lives. If a person is religious (and back..
Imagine you find an old map showing how to get to some huge treasure buried on an island by pirates many years ago. Now you assemble a team of experts, get all the necessary equipment and begin to search for it. After a few months, a metal box containing over a million dollars worth of..
Navigating life’s lanes. Lanes on the road of life are arranged from best to worst, or top to bottom. We are always in a lane and they are constantly changing. When we are in a good lane, all the lanes surrounding us are also good, so we feel like we are in the “flow.” On the..
This time it is different, and could be very painful for Israel. Right now it looks like any of the past forgotten and failed agreements between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, but it is NOT. Palestinian Authority President and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas finally arrived at the 21st century. He understands now that “resistance” is much more..
וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים יְהִי אוֹר וַיְהִי-אוֹר. ד וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאוֹר כִּי-טוֹב וַיַּבְדֵּל אֱלֹהִים בֵּין הָאוֹר וּבֵין הַחֹשֶׁךְ. ה וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לָאוֹר יוֹם וְלַחֹשֶׁךְ קָרָא לָיְלָה וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר יוֹם אֶחָד. כאן ״ויבדל״, או ״ויפריד״, זה לא כמו שמקובל לפרש שזו הפרדה פיסית. ההפרדה כאן היא על ידי זמן. קודם יש חושך, ולאחר מכן אור, ולכן אומר הכתוב וַיְהִי–עֶרֶב וַיְהִי–בֹקֶר יוֹם אֶחָד. קודם..
People don’t normally change. I believe that we are born with a certain set of characteristics and we die with them. All the rest is just information, similar to a computer program which may collect and create lots of data, but at its root, stays the same. So how do we make the world a..