At the Essence

By Tzvi Freeman

Do not be misled by those who claim there is no purpose.

They may know life, but not the bowels of its fountain.

They may know darkness, but not its meaning.

They may have wisdom, but they cannot reach higher, to a place beyond wisdom from which all wisdom began.

They may reach so high until the very source from which all rivers flow. To the place where all known things converge, where all knowledge is one. But they have not touched the Essence.

At the Essence there is nothing—no light, no darkness, no knowledge, no convergence, no wisdom—nothing but the burning purpose of this moment now.

Save Our Skies

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You're Not The Only One

There is a thing that happens when you have been carrying a thought that no one around you seems to share. You start to wonder if you are wrong. Not because the evidence changed, but because the loneliness of holding a position alone is its own kind of silent pressure cooker. The isolation does what the argument couldn’t.

Most people are not saying what they actually think. The social cost of honesty has been artificially inflated for several years now and the result is a population of people who believe one thing and perform another, wondering if they are the only one in the room who noticed the emperor’s wardrobe malfunction.

I promise: You are not the only one.

The Spiritual Journey

A teacher kept a large chalkboard full of errors from her students’ assignments. When asked why she didn’t erase them, she would say, “These mistakes show how far they’ve come.” Each week, she added new mistakes but also wrote small notes beside them – corrections, improvements, insights.

At the end of the school year, the chalkboard looked chaotic. But to the students, it was a record of their growth. Every mistake on the board was connected to a lesson learned, a skill improved, or a fear overcome. Instead of hiding their errors, they learned to appreciate them as stepping-stones.

The same can be applied to our spiritual journey. Growth is built from insight, not from self-condemnation. Missteps and wrong turns aren’t barriers; they’re signals. They are meant to guide us, not block the path entirely. Naturally, we’re embarrassed by our errors and try to erase them from our memories as quickly as possible. But when we view our missteps as signs of learning and growth, they become markers of progress rather than failure.

Taking responsibility means learning, adjusting, and allowing ourselves to continue. When we release shame, we reclaim direction. When we shift our mindset from guilt and criticism to refinement and development, mistakes stop feeling heavy. They become life lessons rather than life sentences, and provide insights rather than indictments. Each one teaches us something essential about ourselves and the path we’re on. When we stop measuring ourselves by what went wrong, we create space for what can go right. Our journey doesn’t always look clean, but it does look real – and real growth is wonderfully messy.

Inspired by the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov, Rabbi Yisrael ben Eliezer (1698-1760)

Mentally Ill Patients being Euthanized

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