At the beginning of January, you dream about and take action toward whatever you want to create in the New Year—your New Year goals. You imagine all your desires fulfilled, but as the months pass, your frustration mounts because your desires remain unfulfilled. The reason is simple: you have not made room for anything new …
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These days, it’s common to hear talk of manifestation and attracting or creating what you desire. Long ago, only in religious circles were you taught, “Ask, and you shall receive.” However, if you cannot receive, you can ask until you are blue in the face and still not create what you want. You must be …
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I’ve recently had the honor of receiving help from someone. This person could be earning a lot of money helping someone else, but he chose to help me—for free. Despite everything I know about giving and receiving, which are integrally related, and what I’ve learned during my years of personal growth work, I have found …
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I hear lots of talk about the importance of giving or being a giver. However, it’s equally essential to be a good receiver. If you close your hand into a fist, you have no way to accept the gifts offered or the abundance available to you. If you’ve ever studied the Law of Attraction or …
The Kabbalists taught that human beings were created as receivers. God, the Ultimate Creator, created us to receive all the goodness the Divine had to offer., explained these Jewish mystics, Our purpose in creation lies in receiving that goodness. We naturally desire that goodness, and the desire pulls the goodness to us. We need only …
Do you want to create something new? Look around. Do you have space for that new thing to exist in your life or space? If not, it’s time for you to make space. According to the Kabbalistic creation story, in the beginning the Divine was everywhere and everything. To allow something else to exist—the world …
Most of us find it difficult to receive anything. We say we want or desire things, like increased income, a loving relation (or a better relationship) or a call telling us we have a new job or literary agent, but they don’t manifest. When we do receive something, even a tiny compliment, we have trouble …
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Do you ever question your beliefs about Your religion? Do you question God’s word, the value of the commandments, the teachings of the forefathers, the meaning of the rituals and prayers? They say the Jewish people are God wrestlers. We don’t always accept God’s word or anything to do with our religion without questions, without …
As I wrote in yesterday’s post, we must give as well as receive. The two are integrally connected. Indeed, when we give, we open ourselves to receiving. We also become “like God,” since God is the Giver and we are the receivers. We, therefore, move closer to God, reducing the separation we tend to feel …
One of the major premises in my work, both my writing and teaching, revolves around the need to give as well as to receive. The two are integrally connected. Indeed, when we give, we open ourselves to receiving. Yet, we don’t want to give in order to receive. When we give, we make room to …
The Hebrew word kabbalah comes from the Hebrew verb “lekabbel,” whose root kbl means “to receive” or “to welcome.” Thus, Kabbalah means “receiving” or “reception.” Most people define Kabbalah as a wisdom tradition or mystical tradition received from teacher to student, handed down from generation to generation. Thus, we receive it from someone. We become …
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I’ve been mulling over how one can seemly go from lack to abundance in one fell swoop. Maybe it’s simply a mindset, though, a change in perspective. My husband felt the lack of a job so profoundly for the four and a half months he was unemployed. He also felt the lack of any job …
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