All posts tagged "Jewish spirituality"
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Ki Tavo: Claiming our Inheritance of God’s Love – the One who gave us life, freedom, the Torah, identity, and Land.
By Ariel Ben Avraham We have said in previous commentaries on this portion of the Torah that the Promised Land, the Land...
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Shoftim: The Justice of God’s Love
Ariel Ben Avraham . The Torah commands us that “Judges and officers you shall place at all your city-gates” (Deuteronomy16:18), the Prophet...
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Va’etchanan: The Lord is our God, the Lord is One
By Ariel Ben Avraham. We must conceive our connection and relationship with God as part of Him. This is the main lesson...
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Devarim: Facing the Material World
by Ariel Ben Avraham. “The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb [Sinai], [and] said: ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain. Turn and journey forth (…)’” (Deuteronomy 1:6-7)...
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Matot-Massei: Enforcing our Connection with God’s Love
By Ariel Ben Avraham . We mentioned in previous commentaries that the war against the potential negative trends in our consciousness must...
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Pinchas: Priesthood as the Highest Level of Consciousness
By Ariel Ben Avraham Consciousness is a multidimensional space that encompasses all aspects, traits and qualities that shape human identity. These dimensions...
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Balak: The Blessings of Love’s Ways and Attributes
by Ariel Ben Avraham. In the dual perception of the material world we are compelled to make choices every moment, and the...
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Chukat: Living God’s Commandments
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar By Ariel Ben Avraham We have said frequently that the Torah defines our Jewish...
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Behaalotecha: Living in Love’s Ways and Means
By Ariel Ben Avraham .“So it was, whenever the ark [of the Covenant between God and Israel] set out, Moses would say,...
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Bechukotai: Our Relationship with the Creator
By Ariel Ben Avraham. In previous commentaries in our blog about this portion (Parshat Bechukotai: “Following Love’s Ways” on May 2, 2010...
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Behar: Serving the Love of God
The Torah defines the Jewish identity as the people who are destined to serve the Creator. The entire Torah is about our...
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Tzav: Elevating our Life to God’s Love
Ariel Ben Avraham . Tzav continues detailing the offerings to be brought to the Creator in order to be close to Him....
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Ki Tisa: The Attributes of God’s Love
By Ariel Ben Avraham . Our highest knowledge of God and His Love (represented by Moses) enables the highest awareness of our...
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Purim: The Meaning of the Jewish Identity
By Ariel Ben Avraham . We have referred in this blog in various occasions to the Jewish identity as defined by the...
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Tetzaveh: Living our Connection with God’s Love
by Ariel Ben Avraham The Sanctuary and the High Priest relate to each other not as complements but as parts of the...
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The Sanctuary as the Connection with God’s Love – Terumah
by Ariel Ben Avraham The Torah, Israel, the Promised Land, and the Temple of Jerusalem are the essential elements to reveal God’s...
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Love as the Meaning of Life – Beshalach
by Ariel Ben Avraham. One of the fundamental principles that the Torah teaches, and the book of Exodus in particular, is the...
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Blogs
Bo: From Darkness to Light
by Ariel Ben Avraham The last three plagues prior to the Exodus from Egypt came with a deeper awareness of the Creator...
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The Jewish Spiritual Approach to Ego
The Creation of the Universe with the 22 Hebrew Letters. Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar by Ariel Ben Avraham We...
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Art
Lech Lecha – Walking Before the Creator
Commentary by Ariel Ben Avraham of Safed, Israel. Art by Phillip Ratner Ratnermuseum The portion of this week starts saying: “And G-d...
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