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...
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...
Rembrandt’s genius was not only his mastery of paint. His true gift was in revealing a light that others could not see. His portraits radiate something deeper than technique — they carry an inner glow that feels almost sacred. In Jewish mysticism this light is...
Amsterdam in the 1600s was a city of new beginnings. For Jews fleeing Spain and Portugal, it was the first place in centuries where they could live openly again. Among them was Menasseh ben Israel — born Manoel Dias Soeiro in Portugal, raised in Amsterdam, and...
Spain: The Craddle of Kabbalah Kabbalah—the mystical core of Judaism—found its most revolutionary expression in medieval Spain. Although its roots began in 12th-century Provence, it was in Catalonia and Castile that Kabbalah blossomed into a transformative spiritual...
