By Rabbi David Aaron Real love is a process of getting to know somebody. To love you I have to get to know you because how can I make a big space inside of me to include you if I don’t know who you are? So if I just met you, I can’t even begin…
The Torah and Kabbalah see the relationship between every couple as part of an ongoing process fixing the cursed relationship of Adam and Eve thereby receiving the light of love back into the world. One of those curses is dominance. A relationship of dominance does not express love. The Kabbalah teaches that love is making…
By Rabbi David Aaron If I were to sum up all of Kabbalah (and Judaism in general) in just a one word I would say—LOVE. It is all about loving each other and loving G-d. It answers the ultimate question: How to love? In trying to share the Jewish answer to this question, we are…
Several years ago I was invited to speak at a conference called USA 2000. There were 2,000 single people there—and one married rabbi. As I walked through the hallways of the enormous conference hall, I noticed that most people had a strange nervous tick, a kind of head bobbing. After a while I started to…