Light of the Infinite: The Genesis of Light

Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson suggests that with positive emotion (joy, gratitude, calm, hope, compassion etc.), “Our vision literally expands, allowing us to make creative connections, seeing our oneness with others, and facing our problems with clear eyes.”

realizing that what Hashem gives isn’t only to fulfill one’s own mission, but that of the missions of those that preceded him. And so valuing possessions not only because they allow him to reveal the Light of Infinite in this world, but also because they allow him to further the state of completion of the souls that came before him.

There is an adage, If you see that your livelihood is limited, then give tzedakah. It applies to lack in general—if you feel like you aren’t receiving, focus on giving,

Hashem’s light even in a place seemingly devoid of it. In our own lives, we need to eliminate our safek, our Amalek, the nations and notions that attempt to force us to turn away from faith and alignment.

each of us is tasked with not only upholding the covenant of Avraham, but of doing right with all the blessings that come from it—going inward to elevate ourselves to the most high, and spiritualizing reality, which inspires all those around us to do the same.

The power of tzedakah is that you literally give life to someone: they go from a lowly state of hopelessness and darkness to a state of feeling life and hope and light again.

Avraham, the father of the Jewish tradition, discovered the Truth by searching what it meant to be his true self and the responsibilities that come with that, while those around him had fallen to worshiping desires and other false idols.

Esav’s reality is stuck within the conception of material temporality, which is a being moving towards death; every moment a whisper of imminent and inevitable mortality.

Yakov doesn’t see each moment as being a movement, a slow death march, or an infinite repetition, but rather he sees that within time, there is the space that offers the possibility of being present, of elevating moments, and of redemption at any moment. And knowing that time is full of struggles, as well ups and downs, but specifically within thos