Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh's blog
Posted in Rectifying the Sense of Sight on Jul 3rd, 2011
Each month of the year is associated with a sense. The sense of the month of Tamuz is sight. The month of Tamuz is the time of the year to rectify our sense of sight. The rectification of sight (on the spiritual plane, which manifests on the physical plane as good eyesight) entails two complementary [...]
Posted in Questions in the Bible on Jun 1st, 2011
In Hebrew, the question “where [am I/are you] from?” (מאין) contains the answer. “Where from?” literally reads “from nothing.” The first appearance in the Torah of the question “where from?” is in the story of Jacob on his way to Haran, about to meet and fall in love (at first sight) with Rachel. (He was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 17th, 2011
The four questions that we ask at the Seder table begin: “What is the difference between this night (of Pesach) and all (other) nights?” The children at the Seder table ask their father to explain to them the meaning of all the unique customs that we perform on the first night of Pesach. We are all children of our [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 1st, 2011
The pit was empty, no water, but full of snakes and scorpions. The pit is the mind, water – Torah, snakes and scorpions – bad thoughts. Joseph’s brothers threw him into an empty pit, an environment without Torah and full of spiritual dangers, negative influences from all sides. A crisis in life is a trial. [...]
Posted in Tweets from the year 5771 on Feb 24th, 2011
Torah is the blueprint of reality. Blue is the color of the sea, the sky, and the Throne of Glory. White – transcendence, blue – immanence. Diamonds are white and sapphires are blue. In Hebrew, “diamonds and sapphires” = Israel. Leah’s 5th and 6th sons were Issachar and Zevulun. Their precious stones on the breastplate [...]
Posted in Tweets from the year 5771 on Feb 24th, 2011
One of the objectives of studying Kabbalah is to rectify, broaden, and mature our associative power of imagination. So do we witness unity. To recognize the symbolism as well as the synchronicity in the things that we see requires a high level of consciousness. Kabbalah helps. Synchronicity in our life experiences is a manifestation of [...]
Posted in Tweets from the year 5771 on Feb 24th, 2011
God saved Jacob from his father-in-law Lavan, his brother Esau, and his “son-in-law” Shechem (his daughter’s rapist), three generations. Jacob is the all-inclusive Jewish soul. From him we learn that each of us has an enemy in the previous, this, and the next generations. The common denominator of the three enemies is that they all [...]
Posted in Tweets from the year 5771 on Feb 24th, 2011
God created all of us; He put us here, and gave us free choice. Let’s ask Him to look over us and protect us from misusing our free choice. One of the great Chasidic sages would say, walking down the street: “Lead me along the true path.” Another great Chasidic sage would simply say “Guard [...]
Posted in Tweets from the year 5771 on Feb 24th, 2011
In Kabbalah, to live is to be on the move. Life is defined as movement. Movement originates in the mind, physically manifesting in the eyes. In Hebrew, eyes and movement share the same 2-letter subroot written backwards. Eye movement balances the psyche. Consider the head as a sphere. It has 3 great circles that meet [...]
Posted in Tweets from the year 5771 on Feb 24th, 2011
“The tzadik falls seven times and rises.” Each fall is for the sake of an additional rise. After each fall you get a raise. After each fall in life one must give rise to a new personality, create a new “face.” He must rise to the occasion of having fallen. If we fall, although we [...]