Aryeh Siegel, at The Blogs

May 13, 2021, 8:19 PM

Excerpts from Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag's essay “Matan Torah” are patched together here to create a brief statement of what once made it possible for God to speak to an entire people. What essential message do we need to "get"...

Apr 10, 2021, 11:12 PM

Seeding Connectivity

Parashat Tazria begins with the laws regarding a woman that tazria and gives birth to a male. The word “tazria” literally means “causes seeding”, so the apparent meaning is “causes pregnancy”. Still, the meaning is not clear regarding a...

Mar 6, 2021, 9:51 PM

Nisan – Our Miracle

According to Rabbi Baruch Shalom Ashlag, the name of the month that we are announcing this Shabbat Hachodesh has a significant meaning. The suffix “an” in Aramaic means “our”. So “Nisan” means “our nes”; that is, “our miracle.” To understand...

Aug 3, 2020, 1:29 PM

What a joy!

What a joy it is when you have the exact thing that someone wants and needs, and you give it to them! Giving - that’s a wonderful feeling. And “Giving: The Essential Teaching of the Kabbalah” is the title...

May 25, 2020, 2:10 PM

Bless! And be blessed

“Blessed are you God…that you have sanctified us with the holiness of Aharon and have commanded us to bless…with love.” I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and...

May 5, 2020, 3:40 PM

Wash Your Hands! The Corona Commandment

“The priests must not become spiritually unclean by contact with a dead person” Wash your hands! That is the commandment of the Corona era. In the Middle Ages a person could go half his or her life without ever washing...

Apr 30, 2020, 10:06 PM

Love! The Golden Rule

“…and love your fellow as yourself…” Rabbi Akiva says: “This is a great general principle of the Torah.” “…God asks of us to love. This may sound simple, but it turns out that it doesn’t come naturally; and it takes...

Apr 7, 2020, 12:39 AM

Do We Know How to Ask?

Remember the fourth son at the Passover seder? He doesn’t know how to ask. The holy Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev said, “That’s me.” In the science fiction work “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” the supercomputer Deep Thought is...

About Me

Aryeh Siegel is a Diplomate in Logotherapy (Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy) with a Ph.D. in philosophy of logic and metaphysics (M.I.T.). Having studied for over 20 years the Kabbalah of Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag (Baal Hasulam) from Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Gottlieb, he publishes articles and delivers lectures on the philosophy of Kabbalah and Logotherapy. As translator and editor, he has published the book "Giving - The Essential Teaching of the Kabbalah" (Urim Publications, 2020), which includes essays by Baal Hasulam with Rabbi Gottlieb's commentary.

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