By Tzvi Freeman Hi Rabbi, You wrote in The Rebbe’s Big Idea that if there’s going to be purpose in life, then there’s got to be some higher context. You seem to be saying that higher context is G‑d. Not sure I get that. Why can’t I find purpose and meaning in life without believing in G‑d? Hey Rabbi, there’s […]

By Tzvi Freeman People the world over have different ways to talk about G‑d. At some point, the Kabbalists began calling G‑d “The Infinite Light.” For example: Know that before the emanations were emanated and the creations were created, there was a supernal, simple light filling all of existence. There was no vacant space . . . rather, all was […]

By Tzvi Freeman It’s All A Miracle Mother Nature is a coverup. It’s 100% authored, directed, engineered and powered by Elokim Unincorporated. Every moment, everything appears out of nowhere, miraculously. For those of you who believe miracles are absurd, dangerous, and a threat to the entire endeavor of science, Nature, it turns out, is nothing more than consistent miracles. The […]

By Tzvi Freeman “Blessed are the cracked,” said master philosopher Groucho Marx, “for they let in the light.” Perhaps it was from Groucho that Leonard Cohen received the inspiration for his poem: “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” Both got it right. Reality is full of cracks. If it weren’t, life would be dark, […]

By Tzvi Freeman We need to learn from the hackers. Especially the criminal ones—and plenty of the most nefarious, criminal acts today are hacks. We need to learn from everyone. Like the Mishnah says, “Wanna know who’s really wise? The guy who can learn something from anybody!” The Baal Shem Tov took that all the way. He taught that the […]

By Tzvi Freeman Dr. David Barlow of Boston U is known for making patients feel uneasy. If you try to take off your jacket in his office, he stops you and tells you to keep it on. The last thing he wants is for you to feel cool and relaxed when you’re sitting with him. He’s happy to see you […]

By Tzvi Freeman It was one of those brutal winter mornings for this West Coast kid in Brooklyn, not so much for the stormy weather as for the struggle to sleep in a dormitory where the Israeli contingent had deemed that night party night. A small group of us had cut a deal with Rabbi Yoel Kahn, teacher supreme of […]

By Tzvi Freeman It was one of one of those grand summits in the journey through life, when the entire landscape is set before you in ultra-high definition. Suddenly, you know where you are, where you are going and what you have to do to get there. I upgraded my iPhone. It was hard. I wanted the new one. But […]

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By Tzvi Freeman In the beginning, G‑d created everything out of nothing. He could have decided to make everything out of something, but He knew that nothing is better material than something. Because something is already whatever something is, but nothing can become anything. That’s why, at least as far as this universe is concerned, the only way to become a […]