Yehuda Berg’s Blog

Here’s a recent email from a reader:

“Sometimes I’m about to say a prayer before I eat a piece of food, and I think, ‘why am I doing this? I don’t do the other prayers, so how much can I get from this one little tiny, insignificant connection?’”

Ever feel like this?

This is a common doubt that our dark side throws at us: “if you don’t do the whole thing, you did nothing…” It’s nonsense. Every little part of every little thing counts.

God is in the DETAILS!

Today, forget about what you don’t do. Focus on what you are doing, and do it with love and excitement.

My father and teacher, Rav Berg, recently shared this thought with a few close students:

“Many think I am the head of The Kabbalah Centre because I started the movement. That is not the reason. It is because I take more responsibility for more people’s lives than anyone else. A real leader is someone who is not afraid to take responsibility for other peoples’ lives.”

Caring about people, this is what it means to lead. Resisting the reflex to cut people off, to see them as separate from us, to judge them without compassion, this is what it means to lead. Doing for others with no thought of return, this is what it means to lead.

I challenge you today to take responsibility for one person, to take them into your heart and to care for them as if they were you.

There’s nothing worse than having something inside us and not being able to share it with someone. Part of what helps us reach those levels of fulfillment is sharing who we are with people.

2,000 years ago, when Rav Shimon, author of Kabbalah’s holiest text, The Zohar, was hiding from the Romans in a cave (and channeling the wisdom that would become the basis of all Kabbalistic study), he received a message. A dove flew into his cave carrying a piece of paper with a question sent by his students from whom he was separated.

When he saw the question, he started to cry. It was painful for him to have the knowledge and yet have no one with whom to share it.

Today, share yourself. Let your friends and loved ones know how you are feeling and what is going on inside. We are programmed NOT to share but in truth, that’s how we achieve happiness.