What is the origin of Lag B’Omer? Nobody really knows.

Igal sat down with Brad Kammer of NARM’s Transforming Trauma podcast to talk about a spiritual perspective of the NueroAffective Relational Model (NARM) to trauma treatment, and his journey to spirituality and meditation…

In less than two hours, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar—Yom Kippur—will start. Twenty-five hours of fasting, prayers and attunement.

Tonight starts the new years in the Hebrew calendar, so my wife Lisa and I prepared a little offering for the new year.

On 8/25/2021 I was interviewed by Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt, Senior Rabbi of Adas Israel Congregation–the largest, oldest Conservative synagogue in Washington, DC.

On May 16 this year (2021) I gave the talk below at the Manhattan JCC. The context was the holiday of Shavuot, that takes place fifty days after Passover (Shavuot later incarnated as the Christian holiday Pentacost). In the talk, a mystical perspective on the question paused in the prayer, “where is the place of His glory?”, is being offered.

The following post is based on a presentation that I made at a minyan, a prayer group, on Nov. 8 this year, the week of the weekly Torah portion of Lech Lecha.

God and the Big Bang by Dr. Daniel Matt has just appeared in the bookstores in Israel, translated by yours truly. What a pleasure it was to work with the author.

Deepak Chopra is one of the world’s most famous people. The media likes to call him “guru”, but, as a well-known Israeli song says, “he did not know that about himself at all:” he defines himself as an explorer of reality who loves sharing his insights with others.

[The following is a translation of an article that I wrote in Hebrew for the Israeli monthly magazine Chayim Acherim. Published on June 1 2019. The entire issue was dedicated so politics and spirituality. A PDF of the original Hebrew article can be viewed here.] 

[The following is a translation of an article that I wrote in Hebrew for the Israeli monthly magazine Chayim Acherim. Published on July 1 2019. The entire issue was dedicated an exploration of the body. A PDF of the original Hebrew article can be viewed here.] 

[The following is a translation of an interview that I conducted with Thomas Hübl, which was published in Hebrew in the Israeli monthly Chayim Acherim on June 1 2019. A PDF of the original Hebrew article can be viewed here.]