Don’t feel like smiling? Force yourself to smile. Force yourself to whistle, or hum a tune, or sing. Do yourself a favor and take Rebbe Nachman’s, Rav Arush’s, and Dale Carnegiestein’s advice...
What's your brand of slavery? Your need for recognition? Your need for a feeling of importance? Appreciation? Food? Physical desires? Ego? Must we all be slaves to something?
Tired of being scatterbrained while engaged in mitzvot? Given up on being mindful during prayers? There's no time like the present to get back on track...
Why was I put through that traumatic experience? What's my purpose in life? What's going to be with me? Rabbi Arush shows how all of these deep questions are really one question with a single answer...
You think winter is a slowdown, but step through your front door and you’ll discover a world in full spiritual bloom. This season isn’t here to bury you — it’s here to jump-start your soul.
What is it that we all lack? What is the deep reason we give up on ourselves? More importantly, what can we do about it? Rabbi Arush gives a surprising answer. A MUST READ!
Our perception of life defaults to one dimension: Get a job. Make money. Have friends. Be the best. However, we are Am Israel, and our national name and symbol represent how our job is to break free from the narrow boundaries that the world straitjackets us into.
For a year, my rabbit Milo sat on a balcony and ate. He didn’t do much of anything until we set him free. After he was released, he hopped higher and moved faster than I’d ever seen him. It’s amazing what someone can do when they are in the right place!
Emunah means believing that everything Hashem does is good, and it’s for our benefit. One of the great keys to opening a vault of emunah is realizing that we have no clue who we will be tomorrow, let alone years from now.
Even when it looks like you aren’t going anywhere, you are moving in place – you just don’t know it. You can move higher and higher on your path to Hashem without taking a single step forward.
Businesses and institutions develop an “agenda” to meet their goals. The soul also has a goal - maturing from a taker into a giver. What is the soul’s agenda and how does it fit with our notion of freedom?
If we judge a wheat field by the way it looked at a single point in time, we might make the tragic error of judging it to be worthless. Same goes with judging people (including ourselves). Never underestimate the ability to repent!
Arrogance can temper our attitude toward others, often blinding us to their inherent good. How do we uproot that in our lives?
Can you feel good without having to run after the objects of your desire? Is it possible to feel good right now? YES! Read on...
It's easy to complain about winter… but it has many silver linings, besides some empowering reminders for us during hard times.
Sometimes, a person's worst-case scenario actually comes true in order to show him that everything Hashem does is truly for the very best...
The world is inherently good, and people are inherently good. We need only to reveal it, and save ourselves and the world in the process…
We need a flood of blessing and salvation. The power to bring down the personal and global salvations we need rests in our hands!