We are all looking for the same thing - to connect with our soul in order to receive guidance and deep, meaningful messages. There are a lot of Kabbalah books out there on the market these days that promise you this. Some are good, others not so good. Most of them require a Ph. D in Kabbalah just to understand them [figuratively speaking.]

Do you want to know a profoundly simple way to get guidance from your soul, every day and every night? Here it is: ask yourself, am I giving or taking right now?

When you take a deep breath in, you feel pressure in your lungs that forces you to breathe out. But in life, we don't see how much we are taking and how much that blocks our connection to our souls. You'd be amazed how much clarity you can have by restricting your taking, and expanding your giving.

Do it today. Ask yourself, over and over, am I taking or giving? Am I taking or giving? Am I taking or giving? You'll get the hang of it.

A student wrote to me this week, "for the last two months I've been restricting in this one area of my life. But I'm still not seeing any changes."

While restriction is a great start, the student is forgetting to throw away the calculations. When we sit and wait for the result, it will never come.

A student goes to his teacher and says, "Teacher, no one loves me." The teacher says, "run away from love and love will run after you." Easy enough. Two weeks later the student returns and says, "it's not working. I'm running but it's not running after me." The teacher says, "you are running, but you keep looking over your shoulder to see how far back it is."

Today, don't look back, don't look ahead. Just look at the spiritual task in front of you. Submit to the process and let go of the need for results. As my mother and teacher Karen Berg says, " don't chase love. If you busy yourself with helping others, love will come, like a butterfly, and sit lightly on your shoulder."

 A student wrote to me this week, "for the last two months I've been restricting in this one area of my life. But I'm still not seeing any changes."

While restriction is a great start, the student is forgetting to throw away the calculations. When we sit and wait for the result, it will never come.

A student goes to his teacher and says, "Teacher, no one loves me." The teacher says, "run away from love and love will run after you." Easy enough. Two weeks later the student returns and says, "it's not working. I'm running but it's not running after me." The teacher says, "you are running, but you keep looking over your shoulder to see how far back it is."

Today, don't look back, don't look ahead. Just look at the spiritual task in front of you. Submit to the process and let go of the need for results. As my mother and teacher Karen Berg says, " don't chase love. If you busy yourself with helping others, love will come, like a butterfly, and sit lightly on your shoulder."

My father and teacher Rav Berg gave an incredible lecture to the community here in Los Angeles last weekend. As always, many inspiring things were said but one of the most inspiring comments was this:

"I had the merit of having a teacher that was fully knowledgeable, fully understood, and lived the life of a Kabbalist. And lived it! That is not easy. That is, in fact, one of the most difficult aspects of my whole involvement with Kabbalah."

What he meant by lived the life of a Kabbalist, as he explained later in the lecture, is the idea that at all times one must follow the cardinal rule of "love thy neighbor as thyself."

I ask you today, whether you are a long-time student or this is just the beginning of your journey, are you treating people the way you wish to be treated? Are you extending the courtesy of allowing people to be themselves without trying to change or fix them? Are you genuinely loving people? This is a question we want to continually ask ourselves as we face our friends, our colleagues, our family - and most importantly, those whom we find difficult to tolerate. This is the test of a true kabbalist.

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