So the Soul Can Shine.
Spiritual Activist Gabriel Avruj interviewed by Dr. Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: Why do you want to help motivate people? Gabriel Avruj: From personal experience I know that the biggest barriers are mental. The mind is a double-edged sword if we do not train it. Our thoughts are powerful and have the ability to create reality. The outside reality is just a projection of what we think and of our...
Read MoreListening In
Duysal Aşkun Celik, PhD. interviewed by Gil Dekel, PhD. Gil Dekel: What do you think happens to the Soul after we die?… Duysal Aşkun: For me, the soul continues his or her journey, albeit in a different form. The physical body is left behind, and the soul searches to find ways to express him or her in the grander version at that moment. What is emotion? How would you define...
Read MoreThe Woman Who Has Changed.
Debbie Wiltshire interviewed by Natalie Dekel. Natalie Dekel: what is this change that we are talking about? Debbie Wiltshire: This change, for me, is a process of waking up to and acknowledging our true selves. I have come to understand that I have been sleepwalking through life, and creating many difficulties for myself through my lack of awareness. I have been living the life that people...
Read MoreLetter to release the past
> download a Word doc template to write your own letter < Dear Parents, I want to thank you for the upbringing you gave me, for the help with my education, my studies… However, I also want to tell you that your insistence that emotions are a waste of time, that talking about things is useless and unnecessary, is the actual thing that makes me ill and blocked out because I’m...
Read MoreAngels and Me (Leeds, Yorkshire, UK.)
by Natalie Dekel. I feel so low that sometimes life seems meaningless. I am lost in my black well of emotions. Lost in that darkness that threatens to overwhelm me if only I let it. I started praying for help. It is the only thing I feel I can do. Then as I was walking on my way to the University something amazing has happened. Out of the blue I was lifted up in the air, a few inches above the...
Read MoreAngels and Me (Western Galilee, Nahariya, Israel.)
by Natalie Dekel. I woke up tonight feeling exhilaratingly happy. I am trying to understand why do I feel so, as nothing so far made me very happy for a long time. I am looking around the room and that is where I suddenly realise that two things are not as they should be. One is that the room is lit with soft white glow which has no physical source and should not be happening in the middle of the...
Read MoreAngels and Me (Northern Galilee, Maalot, Israel.)
by Natalie Dekel. Years passed. I have experienced more pain and troubles as my life Is. I am walking back home from school again. This time I am not surrounded by deep snow and freezing wind. This time I am embalmed in lazy Mediterranean heat where the air is so heavy and moist that it slides down my back like a caress. The same cloud has been hanging in the same spot in the azure blue sky for...
Read Moreבכל חוף, החול הוא אחר
נטלי דקל – ציירת דיוקנאות אקריליק, ואומנות מופשטת בטכניקת שעווה נוזלית (Encaustic Wax) – בראיון עם גיל דקל. [English Version] גיל דקל: מתי התחלת לצייר? נטלי דקל: נולדתי שמאלית ואמא שלי חששה שלא אוכל להשתמש ביד ימין. היכן שנולדתי...
Read MoreBeauty is in the eye of the beholder: Nature in close up Photography.
Photos by Gil Dekel. Look at the beauty around you… it is everywhere! 12 Aug 2012. Photos © Gil Dekel. Do not copy/use any material/photos without explicit written permission from Gil Dekel. Gift...
Read MoreWhere we are at (Judaism Q/A, part 7).
Part 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. If two people make the same mistake, would it be considered worse for one of them? Yes. Each person is judged according to what they’ve been given… We are not judged absolutely. We are all relative to where we are at. Each person has the באשר הוא שם, where the person is at that time. On that level they’re being judged. If a person is sitting and...
Read MoreAngels and ‘Tzadik Gamur’ (Judaism Q/A, part 6).
Part 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. ‘Tzadik Gamur’ is a righteous person. Is this a definition of an angel? No. Most angels don’t have ‘Bhira’, a choice. Most angels are referred to by the names of animals like Hayot, Kodesh and Ophanim; not because they are animals in the sense of being unrefined, they’re very holy and refined. They are more refined than man; but they really don’t have the...
Read MoreReturance (Judaism Q/A, part 5).
Part 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. In part 4 we discussed free-will, which is enabled by the mere existence of balanced things/events (such as good vs bad). But if we look back at things we did, for example, let’s say I bought a car last year. So, it is a fact I have that specific car now. Since this has already happened and I have that specific car now, does this mean there was no other way at that...
Read MorePast-lives and free will (Judaism Q/A, part 4).
Part 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. God makes Himself unseen while He is always present in our life. We now go to explore our own lives, and ask: is there a concept in Judaism of ‘past life’? Yes; very much so. Nowadays it is considered that most of us are reincarnation גילגולים ‘Gilgulim’ of previous lives; some of the many lives. According to some, our generation is just before The...
Read MoreIllumination (Judaism Q/A, part 3).
Part 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. If God created this world and is in this world, why some people say they cannot see/feel Him? We find answers in the Kaballa and particularly in the Kitvei Arizal, the famous writings of the famous Kabalist who lived in Syria, who wrote the Etz Chaim, one of his famous mystical Kabbalistic books. In the beginning, before the creation, the whole of existence was just...
Read MoreBlessings (Judaism Q/A, part 2).
Part 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Many times we say blessings, Bracha. We say ‘Baruch Ata HaShem’, ‘Blessed are You, God’, but what does it mean, blessed? What are we blessing? It doesn’t have any real meaning, because we don’t need to bless God… maybe God needs to bless us… The Hebrew word ‘Bracha’ comes from a number of different roots. One of them means בריכה ‘Brecha’, a...
Read MoreCreation (Judaism Q/A, part 1).
Part 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. The Jewish Bible, the Tanach, is a written document. Why God did not just ‘implement’ its wisdom into our hearts? why have it as a book to read? One answer is that God wants us to have a part in the creative process. He doesn’t give us everything on a plate. He doesn’t hardwire us with everything, but He wants us to make an effort and take part in the creative...
Read MoreWe have achieved this before…
If we adhere to violence we act against the holy Jewish Law: ‘That Which You Hate, Do Not Inflict On Your Neighbour’. We then carry a heavy burden; the burden of working against ourselves by poisoning the air we breathe with thick militarist words of hate. Thus, I see Peace as our holy obligation in creating a place for nations to thrive not on ‘advanced modernism’, but on the...
Read MoreWe All Want The Same Things.
Steve Minchin, co-founder of The Global Conversation, interviewed by Dr. Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: Do you feel spirituality can operate with business? Steve Minchin: The message coming from the ‘Conversations with God’ books (by Neale Donald Walsch) is that our Politics is our Spirituality demonstrated, because we act according to our beliefs. So I guess our way of doing Business is likewise...
Read MoreLessons from ‘Conversations with God for Teens. Neale Donald Walsch’ (by Gil Dekel, PhD. Pt 2 of 2)
Part 2. Go back to part 1. page 190 When you love another for what you are, not for what they are, you then demonstrate that you need nothing from them, and that your love is not based on what you can get from them. 207 Society is a group of people formed around a particular way of seeing things. Thinking is the act of considering ideas. Learning is the act of memorising. Facts are rarely facts....
Read MoreLessons from ‘Conversations with God for Teens. Neale Donald Walsch’ (by Gil Dekel, PhD. Pt 1 of 2)
Part 1. Go to part 2. page 12 All people have free-will. God gave people free-will because God is a creator, and He created people that are creators in themselves. Without free-will people will not be able to create at all, because they would only re-act. They would only obey and do what they are told to do. Obeying is re-acting, not creating. With free-will people can choose, and so they can...
Read MoreLessons in Tanya – Chapter 1 (pt4)
with Gil Dekel. ואפילו העובר על איסור קל של דברי סופרים מקרי רשע כדאיתא בפ”ב דיבמות ובפ”ק דנדה “Even if a person transgresses only a very light rabbinical prohibition [one which was forbidden by the sages, but isn’t explicitly mentioned in the Torah], he is considered a Rasha.” Let’s give an example:...
Read MoreLessons in Tanya – Chapter 1 (pt3)
with Gil Dekel. ולהבין כל זה באר היטב וגם להבין מה שאמר איוב [ב"ב פ"א] רבש”ע בראת צדיקי’ בראת רשעי’ כו’ The Alter Rebbe goes on now to explain a few views on what Beinoni is and what he is not. Alter Rebbe says “we’re going to have to understand all that we mentioned above very clearly; and a further thing,...
Read MoreLessons in Tanya – Chapter 1 (pt2)
with Gil Dekel. אך הענין כי הנה מצינו בגמרא ה’ חלוקות. צדיק וטוב לו צדיק ורע לו רשע וטוב לו רשע ורע לו ובינוני. “The matter is as follows. We find in the Gemara five categories [of human beings]. Tzadik ve Tov Lo, Tzadik ve Ra Lo, Rasha ve Tov Lo, Rasha ve Ra Lo, and Beinoni”. ופירשו בגמרא צדיק...
Read MoreLessons in Tanya – Chapter 1 (pt1)
with Gil Dekel. ליקוטי אמרים, ספר של בינונים, פרק א’ תניא בספ”ג דנדה משביעים אותו תהי צדיק ואל תהי רשע In this first ‘Perek’ (chapter) of the Tanya book, we are being referred to the end of the third chapter of the tract page from a different book – the Talmud tract called ‘Niddah’. In the tract of...
Read MoreLessons in Tanya – Sha’ar (title page)
with Gil Dekel. ספר ליקוטי אמרים חלק ראשון הנקרא בשם ספר של בינונים We start with the title page of the Tanya book, which is known by the name the ‘book of Beinonim’, or book of the average person, the intermediate, ‘Sefer Shel Beinonim’; in Hebrew: ספר של בינונים . Traditionally, It is believed to be original work, but...
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