Art of Education

The Art of Education seeks to focus the educator on creating a lasting impression on students by opening their spirits to their own higher realms of consciousness and then helping them integrate newly found energy, will, and insights into everyday life. By analyzing the Hebrew word for "education" and its counterpart "guidance" Rabbi Ginsburgh leads the reader through a kaleidoscopic journey into depth within depth of the psyche and the soul and their function and growth through our relationships with those who educate us.

Awakening the Spark Within

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore-[At that time] the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard lie down with the kid, the calf and the beast of prey shall feed together with a little child to herd them.

This is the prophecy of Isaiah, promising the world what it yearns for-a perfect future, a future without war, without hunger, without strife.

That such a future awaits us, Isaiah says, is a promise from G-d. When it will dawn is up to the Jewish people.

In Awakening the Spark Within, Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh explains how every Jew-man, woman and child-can live up to this awesome responsibility by cultivating, in everyday personal life his or her own innate sparks of leadership.

He shows how seemingly insignificant individual efforts can have world-changing consequences and bring the prophetic vision of the future to its ultimate fulfillment.

Body, Mind, and Soul

The body-mind connection is a well-documented fact in today's medical paradigm. Yet, long before recent scientific research uncovered this natural linkage, it was described in Kabbalistic healing manuals, with one important difference - there it was understood to be a link between body, mind, and soul.

Body, Mind, and Soul explains Kabbalah's centuries-old perception of human physiology, its view on how to maintain overall health, and how this is dependent on our spiritual well-being. Whether you rely on today's holistic healing or on more traditional medicine, you'll benefit from the Kabbalistic prescriptions for healing and understanding of human physiology laid out in this valuable book.

Body, Mind, and Soul Features:

A reference guide to the body-soul interaction

A detailed description of Kabbalah's understanding of disease and its root causes

Contemporary healing methods seen from a mystical point of view

A discussion of the healing power of prayer and teshuvah

Glossary, footnotes, and index

Consciousness & Choice

Finding your soulmate and living happily together are at one and the same time one of life's greatest challenges and prospects. Together with its companion volume "The Mystery of Marriage," this book gives some of the deepest and particularly revealing insights into the nature of couplehood.

This book approaches dating from the fresh perspective of a journey that both men and women enter in hope of uncovering their deepest creative forces. With sensitivity to the essential differences between men and women, this book will help you appreciate the underlying motivations that move each to seek companionship and matrimony. It also presents the first rigorous analysis of how the development of consciousness and the ability to make the right choices in life go hand-in-hand, stressing that your ability to appreciate the Divine nature of reality is a key factor in doing so. As such, the principles expounded can be applied to all areas of importance in life that involves difficult choices.

Consciousness & Choice includes a detailed Kabbalistic study of the ancient courtship custom known as "the Dance of the Maindens." From this ancient ritual and its intricacies, Rabbi Ginsburgh uncovers the spiritual value of every motivating factor in searching for a spouse.

Living in Divine Space

What is meditation? Many people mistakenly understand it as an attempt to clear the mind and thereby transcend the intellect. It is not that. As Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh explains in this work on kabbalah and meditation, meditation is meant to refine our intellect to become a channel for Divine consciousness.

In this work, the rabbi guides us through kabbalistic meditation, a system rooted in basic Judaic teachings, also useful to practitioners of other spiritual disciplines. The core meditative exercise presented here is examined at length through the prism of Kabbalistic thought. It focuses on positive thinking, Divine love, and negation of any negative influences.

The exercise is both a meditation in itself and a platform for other meditations, and involves essentially imagining oneself in a six-sided "thought cube" which creates a protective, spiritual "sanctuary" around oneself. Within this sacred space one can safely open one's heart in prayer.

The purpose of kabbalistic meditation, ultimately, is to transform our state of mind from one of self-consciousness to Divine consciousness, and in Living in Divine Space the rabbi offers us the tools to do just that.

The kabbalistic meditation presented is based on the six constant commandments of the Torah. There are as follows:

Above: belief in G-d
Below: negation of belief in other gods
Front: belief that G-d is one
Right: love of G-d
Left: fear of G-d
Back: shielding the mind from negativity

Standing in the Divine space we create through our kabbalistic meditation, we lift our voices in heartfelt prayer to discover Him with all our heart and being.

The Hebrew Letters: Channels of Creative Consciousness

The Hebrew alef-beit (alphabet), despite its apparent simplicity, contains within it the deepest secrets of Creation. In the present book, Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh unveils before the modern English reader some of the infinite dimensions hidden beneath the surface of the holy letters.

The Kabbalistic classic Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Formation) teaches that creative consciousness exists in three states (space, time, and soul), which are reflected in the form, name and numerical value of each letter. Rabbi Yisrael Ba'al Shem Tov (founder of the Chassidic movement) taught that ecah letter also exists in each of the three dimensions of Worlds, Souls, and Divinity.

Through Rabbi Ginsburgh's treatment, based on these teachings, the alef-beit emerges from this work as the key to opening up the entire panorama of Jewish spirituality.

Transforming Darkness into Light

Description: In Transforming Darkness into Light, Rabbi Ginsburgh describes for the lay reader the basic elements of a system of Kabbalistic psychotherapy, as it has developed in thought and practice over centuries. The rabbi highlights many ways in which the Jewish mystical path to psychological well-being both agrees with and differs from the dominant schools of modern psychology, and also examines in-depth the pivotal role of the therapist.

This book is a step-by-step guide to the ways emotional healing can empower our souls to rise above our egos and embrace a higher truth. It explores how we can separate out the negative influences of our lives, heal our wounds, and ultimately, taste the sweetness of inner peace.

Includes glossary, footnotes, and index.