It was early morning, the last chill of winter giving way, as I climbed the steps to gaze at Alhambra—the red fortress of Granada—framed by the glow of sunrise and the snowy Sierra Nevada. Something deep shifted within me as I watched: a longing to don tefilin, the...
Wat betekent Kabbala? Kabbala betekent ontvangen, van het Hebreeuwse werkwoord lekabel. Wijsheid kan niet alleen cognitief geleerd worden. Een boek of workshop met inzichten en concepten is waardevol, maar geen transformatie. Kabbala gaat pas leven wanneer je het...
I was sitting in the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, during its 350-year celebration. Next to me sat an entrepreneur. I asked him if there was anything special about Jewish business in Amsterdam. He answered with one word: “nejomme.” He meant neshama (נשמה) — soul....
Most leaders put on tefillin in the morning, then step into their day unchanged. But tefillin is not a ritual to leave behind. It is a technology of alignment. A compass for your leadership. When worn with awareness, tefillin aligns your higher purpose (Keter) with...
Walk through the narrow alleys of Girona’s Call and you enter a city within a city — a place where silence holds secrets. In 1492, despite the passionate defense of Don Isaac Abravanel, who pleaded with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella not to expel Spain’s...
