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 Tzvi Freeman, a senior editor at Chabad.org, is also author of several books, including Wisdom to Heal the Earth. He writes Chabad.org's highly popular Daily Dose of Wisdom. Rabbi Freeman served for five years as mashpia of the West Coast Rabbinic Seminary in Los Angeles, and currently resides in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Subscribe to regular updates of Rabbi Freeman's writing with the Freeman Files subscription.
וְהִנֵּה, כָּל בְּחִינָה וּמַדְרֵגָה מִשָּׁלֹשׁ אֵלּוּ: נֶפֶשׁ רוּחַ וּנְשָׁמָה – כְּלוּלָה מֵעֶשֶׂר בְּחִינוֹת, כְּנֶגֶד עֶשֶׂר סְפִירוֹת עֶלְיוֹנוֹת שֶׁנִּשְׁתַּלְשְׁלוּ מֵהֶן, הַנֶּחְלָקוֹת לִשְׁתַּיִם, שֶׁהֵן: שָׁלֹשׁ אִמּוֹת וְשֶׁבַע כְּפוּלוֹת; פֵּי...
Introduction You’ve just discovered you have a divine soul. How do you tap into her energy? How can you channel it into down-to-earth reality? In this chapter, Rabbi Schneur Zalman maps out the psyche of this divine soul to reveal his key strategy to harn...
The Faculties of Your Soul Now, the divine soul, on each of her three distinct levels of nefesh, ruach, and neshamah, consists of ten faculties corresponding to the ten sefirot of the higher, divine world. These faculties are actually micro-versions of th...
A practical guide to achieving the impossible
A Jew once demanded of the tzadik, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk, “Rebbe! Where is G‑d?” The rabbi answered him, “Wherever you let Him in.” The secular world does not react kindly to the notion of holiness. Holiness creates distinctions. It’s much more e...
Read your life from the future backwards.
וְנֶפֶשׁ הַשֵּׁנִית בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל, הִיא חֵלֶק אֱלוֹהַּ מִמַּעַל מַמָּשׁ, כְּמוֹ שֶׁכָּתוּב: "וַיִּפַּח בְּאַפָּיו נִשְׁמַת חַיִּים", וְ"אַתָּה נָפַחְתָּ בִּי", וּכְמוֹ שֶׁכָּתוּב בַּזֹּהַר, מַאן דְּנָפַח מִתּוֹכֵיהּ נָפַח, פֵּירוּשׁ, מִתּוֹכִיּוּתוֹ וּמִפ...
The Divine Soul The second soul in a Jew is “a part of G‑d from beyond” Job 31:2. in actual fact. “Part” here means not a particular part of G‑d, which is absurd, but a particular iteration of a sample of Him. This second soul knows G‑d from her very esse...
Introduction The Second Soul If you feel you’ve been left hanging at the end of chapter one, it’s probably because that’s exactly where you are supposed to be. The bar seems to be set very high and, so far, all you’ve got inside yourself to tackle the cha...
I used to put my menorah in my window, but since last year I’m scared of having my window smashed.
Intro At the dawn of modernity, Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (1698–1760) came to awaken the smoldering ashes of darkened hearts, to breathe life back into the dry bones of a nation weary from persecution, and to lift from the ground a people buckling under ...
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