Category Archives: Torah Portion

The Final Scream As long as we were distant, even if it was accepted and normal, without crossing any internal or social norms, without breaking clear red lines, we continued to carry our painful situation without fighting it.  However, when we fell, when we reached a place that we never dreamed of reaching, we wereContinue reading “Parashat Tazria”

A Little Bit More I’m not telling you to deny all the bad that you did, I’m only asking you to search, inside all of the bad, maybe within that there is some good point?  Take a magnifying glass and scan all of your failures today, search well, dig to the depths, maybe amongst all the bad thereContinue reading “Parashat Shemini”

More Complete with a Broken Heart People tend to be frightened by tears because they relate the tears only to sadness, but truly tears because of a broken heart go together with happiness.  Pain which we feel without opposing it is life, but sadness is not pain, it is escaping from responsibility to a placeContinue reading “Parashat Tzav”

My Place This is the place to find yourself… ‘Here’, it is written with letters of fire on the door of personal prayer, ‘here you will find yourself and everything that you lost!’  So, if personal prayer is so amazing, why can’t many of us succeed in doing it?  Why do we receive upon ourselvesContinue reading “Parashat Vayikra”

This is My Movie We have so many theories and conclusions and opinions and criticism and blame about the world outside. There are so many things which seem to us to be true about the outside world, and we even have colorful proofs, flickering on a white screen.  However, truly, we are just projecting!  WeContinue reading “Parashat Pekudei”

On Shabbat We Rest Harav Israel Asulin Translated by Moshe Neveloff Sunday, 19th of Adar I, 5776 BS”D When, in the recent past, did you go on a vacation? Vacation.  This phenomenon, which is an inseparable part of our routine in this generation, already has a culture and jargon and rules of its own.  ItContinue reading “Parashat Vayakhel”

Respecting Boundaries Harav Israel Asulin Translated by Moshe Neveloff Monday, 13th of Adar I, 5776 BS”D This week’s Torah portion, Ki Tisa, opens with Hashem’s special request to Moshe Rabbeinu[1]: “When you take a census of the Children of Israel according to their numbers, every man shall give Hashem atonement for his soul when countingContinue reading “Parashat Ki Tisa”

Connection So many Jews spend years upon years in treatment after treatment, go from one method to another, from coaching to meditation, from a psychologist to a psychiatrist, from CBT to DBT to NLP, from Prozac to Prozac plus Clonex… But the soul will not become fulfilled.  It’s true, there is a little bit ofContinue reading “Parashat Tetzaveh”

To Illuminate Hashem loves your new beginnings, the tremendous amount of times you overcome the ego and the embarrassment, when you get up and say: “It doesn’t matter what was, it doesn’t matter how much I’ve fallen, I’m starting anew!” Harav Israel Asulin Translated by Moshe Neveloff Monday, 29th of Shevat, 5776 BS”D Light.  AnContinue reading “Parshat Terumah”

Everything Depends on It Truth is the main principle which everything depends on!  All of the work of personal development depends and relies upon truth!  If you don’t have this honest will, to reach the truth, then there is no reason to begin the work.  Why?  What is so critical about being truthful or notContinue reading “Parashat Mishpatim”