Light of Infinite
by Erez Safar
Fall in love with life, through weekly bursts of ancient Jewish mystic inspiration!Light of Infinite is a blog, a podcast, a festival and a soon to be released book series, where Erez Safar acts as Your Spiritual DJ, curating insights into the weekly Torah portion and the infinite light of Kabbalah.
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The Other Side (numbers: balak)
If at every moment you can choose the path that you want to pursue, as the Talmud states, Hashem will help you towards the path of your choosing, then you have to ensure that you're in alignment & on a path of positivity! We shouldn’t ever look at ourselves as fully bad or fully good, cuz that…
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How To Never Get Angry (numbers: chukat)
“The best fighter is never angry.” ― Lao Tzu The main problem with hitting the rock, which was born from a moment of imperfect faith by Moshe, was that it was an act of force. Moshe’s sin was in the moment of questioning, & the anger seeped in in that one tiny moment. The Maharal teaches: where...
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Revolt vs. Redemption (numbers: korach)
Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev teaches that Korach (this parsha) didn’t think that Torah could assume the trappings of this world. It was at that moment that the earth “opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all Korach’s people and all their possessions.” He explains that it…
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind (numbers: shlach)
As Big Sean raps on Justin Bieber’s album, “Believe”, “the grass ain’t always greener on the other side. It’s green where you water it.” It’s like this with anything— our relationship with our partner, with life, and just the same or even more so with our Source, the Light of Infinite. We need to...
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The Secret To Never Falling (numbers: behaalotecha)
The truth is we all will fall time & again. The secret is to not view it negatively. Because life is only truly negative if we don’t use our fall toward elevation. If falling back pushes us forward, it’s a powerful tool towards transcendence. Just living, in and of itself, presents challenges…
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The Secret To Blessing (numbers: naso)
King Solomon writes in Mishlei/Proverbs that whatever a person pictures in their mind has the power to happen. Our power to draw down blessings is tied into the faith that colors our beings as vessels to receive. The law of attraction is simple yet profound— positive thoughts bring positivity…
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The Colour of Humility (numbers: bamidbar)
We all have a Nefesh Elokit (part of God) in us, we just need to transcend the layers of doubt and unlock the powerful truth and redemption that awaits. It’s written in a Mishnah, “Every human being is unique, and every human being is a copy of the prototype human being (Adam)…therefore, every...
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Faith Fuels The Future, Fear Stirs The Past (leviticus: bechukotai)
For this week I wrote about how to bring more blessings into your life, which is outlined in the beginning of this Parashah. I brought in elements from Jon Batiste’s speech at the Grammy’s and some deep lyrics by Kendrick Lamar, and epic teachings by the Alter Rebbe and Rebbe Nachman, and as...
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All Reap, No Sow (leviticus: behar)
All of life is about the beautiful balance of releasing control and connecting. Because we're tasked to toil for our bread, we find ourselves stuck in a mindset of thinking that we are in control of our lives, that the more that we dominate our circumstances, the more in control we are. What we...
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Cheat Codes to Holiness (leviticus: kedoshim)
_“My kedushah (holiness) is greater than yours.”_ – *The Maggid of Mezrich* It’s not just an LA thing;), we’re all affected by vibes and energy. That’s why it’s so important to be mindful of the company we keep. I often place myself in what I call sacred spaces, cuz when people are there to reach...
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G.O.A.T. amongst goats (leviticus: acharei mot)
Everything in this world has the power for good or for evil, for elevation or degradation, just as we read about with the two goats. Even with air and breathing there is kedushah and sitra achra, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov teaches that there are two “lifelines” that we can draw in when breathing in...
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The Transformative Power of Pesach and Sefirat Ha’Omer
All of Passover (Pesach) is an opportunity for bitul hayesh, to negate and nullify all traces of ego and self-centeredness, to transcend the illusion of self. I just wrote this Pesach & Omer companion called, ‘The Transformative Power of Pesach and Sefirat Ha’Omer’ that you might find…
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Birds in a Trap (leviticus: metzora)
I touched on this in the intro of my book - in the How to Exist in Love chapter. There this epic wisdom in these Torah portions, Tazria & Metzora, where we learned about tzarot (sad things), and that tzarot come from lashon hara (slander/negative speech), which means one is looking at people and...
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Becoming a semblance of God. (leviticus: tazria)
Kabbalah teaches that the world was created as a broken vessel; Hashem/God constricted himself and hid His good in the brokenness of the world. Reb Natan of Breslov says that our highest task is to choose to see His Light, to choose to let in and partner with Hashem, even when he is hidden. Our...
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Step in Rhythm, Grow in Concert (leviticus: shemini)
When I can’t sleep, I often free-verse about whatever’s on my mind. It’s always interesting reading it the next morning. From the other night: The world is full of enough dissonance produce melody perform alchemy sift the good notes from the bad the serene from the siren song step in rhythm grow…
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When the Screens of Separation Fall (leviticus: tzav)
The entire journey is about trusting and fueling our perceptions of reality with emunah/faith rather than fear. There is this curious verse in the Torah that reads: 'אֵ֗שׁ תָּמִ֛יד תּוּקַ֥ד עַל־הַמִּזְבֵּ֖חַ לֹ֥א תִכְבֶּֽה' “A constant fire shall be kept burning on the altar; it shall not be...
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Spiritualize Reality (leviticus: vayikra)
𝕊𝕡𝕚𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕦𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕫𝕖 ℝ𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪 - This week we read: “When one among you offers a sacrifice to G-d…”. Immediately, we ask, what sort of sacrifice? Why? and how? King David writes in Psalms, “For You [G-d] do not desire sacrifices; else I would give it: You do not delight in burnt offering....
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Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose (exodus: vayak'hel)
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When to Abstain from Creating and Meditate on Being Created (exodus: ki tisa)
This week we are commanded to keep the Shabbat - there is no more elevated bridge between this world and the next; it’s the finite time and space where our soul feels tapped into the infinite. Its splendor is ineffable. Hashem created the world in six days, and on the seventh, He rested. We spend...
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The living revelation of the concealed (exodus: tetzaveh)
The last 139 days have been almost impossible to navigate the ups and downs that come with living in this difficult time… as Mark Ronson says, Nothing Breaks Like A Heart. I woke up today and it hit me that we’re all just scattered pieces of a broken soul trying to come together and make it…
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The Love You Take Is Equal To The Love You Make (exodus: terumah)
This week we read, “Speak to the Children of Israel & let them take for Me a portion, from every person whose **heart so moves them ** …” As Miles Davis said, “Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.” Sometimes we get stuck in overthinking or feeling we have to do so...
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Hear & Grow (exodus: mishpatim)
Ahava (ah-ha-va)/אהבה/love. In Hebrew, the root word for ‘love’ is related to the Aramaic word ‘hav’ which means “to give”. Loving is synonymous with giving — as real love is created. The basis of Jewish faith is action/giving of oneself, & it’s through the mitzvot/commandments that clarity,...
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Seeing Sounds (exodus: yitro)
Years ago I connected with Nissim Black and we did a slew of songs together. I have seen him get bigger and bigger, and his light has reached just about everyone I know.. We all have so much light within us. That’s why we feel so much light when we encounter someone that’s fully tapped into their...
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From On High (exodus: beshalach)
The lesson that keeps coming up is that the path to the Promised Land is fraught with obstacles, & we each must overcome our doubts & confusions and continuously clarify our goals. This happened with Avraham, having to go to Egypt first & then we see it happening to the entire Jewish nation....
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Sing to the Moon (exodus: bo)
The first mitzvah/commandment given is to sanctify the New Moon. Rashi explains that Moshe wasn’t able to fully understand the mystery of the New Moon until Hashem showed him the exact moment of the moon’s renewal - and the deeper reason for the moon’s waxing & waning, one of the mysteries behind...
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From On High (exodus: va’eira)
Hashem/God reminds Moshe/Moses that whatever impingement he feels he has, it cannot impede him from his destiny, nor the people from redemption. Once Moshe was able to rid himself of his doubt and submit to his destiny, he was able to perform miracles. And of course miracles happen every moment,...
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Rescue The Needy (exodus: exodus)
We start reading Shemot/Exodus this week where we see that Moshe/Moses felt and knew that he wasn’t Egyptian, despite his upbringing and surroundings, he knew he was an Israelite. Moshe had an attachment to Yocheved and her children. He later found out he was her son and they, his siblings. As…
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Take Your Broken Heart, Make It Into Art (genesis: vayechi)
Carrie Fisher used to say, “take your broken heart, make it into art.” It’s incredible how we are able to turn tragedy into triumph & our own dark moments into light & hope for others. There’s nowhere we see our interconnectedness more than in art. The stories that are the most popular in films &...
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every line that I’ve drawn that points back to you (genesis: vayigash)
It seems that each of our lives is a string of struggles to feel aligned in the most elevated ways. Finding our purpose is certainly the first step to being able to tap into the elevated space, but because of how hard it is to maintain being in that space, we fall, we question, sometimes we rebel...
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Karma Came Quickly (genesis: mikeitz)
Read For Good Karma✨ The story of Joseph's struggle and redemption is super inspiring! I shared some of these lessons about this week's Torah portion after my mom passed away - I hope it brings you some solace and light🕊 We read of Pharaoh that “in the morning, his spirit was troubled. He sent…
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The Three Sided Story (genesis: vayeishev)
For this week, I do a deep dive into the damaging effects of lashon hara (speaking negatively). Blessings don’t come easily in this world. Everything of great value comes through hardship. Even peace itself comes from being diligent in bittul (self-transcendence), choosing how to navigate our...
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What Happens To A Dream Deferred? (genesis: vayeitzei)
What do Rebbe Nachman, the Wu Tang Clan, the Abarbanel, and Led Zeppelin have in common? Not much, but they all made their way into this week's chapter/episode.;) So much of emunah (faith) and connectedness revolve around sleep and dreams, at least for me. In moments of faithlessness and doubt, I...
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The Other Side (genesis: toldot)
This week with Jim Morrision and Annie Hall, & of course Rebbe Nachman! It seems that in almost every moment of our lives, we are caught between two choices: the easier or more selfish choice and something a bit harder, a selfless choice. Sometimes safek/doubt blurs the lines between the two, but...
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The Future is Female (genesis: chayei sarah)
The Talmud teaches that “In the merit of righteous women, our ancestors were redeemed from Egypt”. Redemption is intrinsically related to women, malchut (sovereignty/kingship), & the Divine feminine dimension. God’s Infinite Light originates at a level that is beyond this world, physically...
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Greetings From The Edge Of The World (genesis: vayeira)
The more I get real with new people that I meet, the more I hear about the variety of struggles that seem to hit us all at various times. It makes us realize how each of us are our own complex universes and each universe is affected by the other. It’s why spreading joy and light is such an...
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Go To Yourself (genesis: lech-lecha)
In the Torah this week, we learn that on Avraham’s journey toward Israel that he finds himself in a famine and is forced to go down to Egypt, as it’s written, “And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt.” This seems like an odd turn of events, after he is tasked with the...
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Found A World So New (genesis: noach)
This week's Torah portion is the story of Noah and the flood, we also read the word #Hamas twice, "And the earth had become corrupt before G-d, and the earth had become full of HAMAS. and God saw the earth, and behold it was corrupted, for all flesh had corrupted its way on the earth....The end…
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Just Keep Me Where The Light Is (genesis: genesis)
We're back in the Torah portion of Bereishit (Genesis), which contains almost all of the mind-blowing kabbalistic concepts of the Light of the Infinite. When Hashem (God) said, 'Let There Be Light…. And It Was Good,' it clues us into the purpose of Creation– to reveal light and goodness in this...
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And Never Become That Which Is Not God (deuteronomy: v’zot haberachah)
It's only by finding one’s purpose and living in alignment that we find our true happiness. For this week, I dove into my middle name which is the same as the mountain Moshe ascended and I touched on some of the secrets of creation, & a bit about what I learned the other week at a Brittany Howard...
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The Secret To Being In Harmony With Each Other & The Universe (deuteronomy: ha'azinu)
For this week, I wrote about the secrets to being in harmony with each other and the world, bringing in wisdom by Pharrell, Rebbe Nachman, David Sacks and the Ramban. Meanwhile, around this time (Yom Kippur) marked the last day I was to say Kaddish for my mom who passed away almost three years…
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The Song That Saved My Life (deuteronomy: vayelech)
Music has been such an important healing tool for me over the years. Feeling good comes in waves, so if you hit a funk, it’s important to have ways to get yourself out. For some it’s being in nature, seeing the grand grace and epic beauty of creation, for others it’s exercising, and for others…
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Greener Where You Water It (deuteronomy: nitzavim)
As we touched on in the "Don’t Hate, Foster The People" chapter in my latest book, "Emanations of Illumination." Another way to think about our collective Oneness is through water. We know that water is fundamental to all life; our bodies are mostly water, and the brain and heart, in particular,...
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First Fruit (deuteronomy: ki tavo)
First fruits, blessings and our Promised Land. I dive into it all via The Rebbe, Jay-Z, Mark Twain, The Arizal and a memory of my Savta from Addis Ababa and Yemen in this week’s Parashah, Ki Tavo! Here are the first couple paragraphs with some memories of my time in Israel. My family is…
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Don’t Hate, Foster The People (deuteronomy: ki teitzei)
In this week's Torah portion we learn how to not perpetuate hatred, bringing in wisdom by Rav Kook, Rebbe Nachman, Dr. David Hawkins, MLK, and more. I set it off writing about my favorite minyan. I was at the minyan I’m almost always at on Shabbat, my friend Lorenzo’s minyan, inspired by and…
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…And Justice For All (deuteronomy: shoftim)
So much anxiety is brought on by thinking one won’t receive what is just. Of course, everyone’s view of their own justice looks different. But the idea of not receiving what you think you deserve, whether from a person or the universe creates a division and distancing in one’s relationships to...
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Mo Money Mo Problems, Mo Charity Mo Peace (deuteronomy: re'eh)
Even though it sounds like a contradiction, the reality is that our possessions are only ours to the extent that we give them away. With this article/dvar titled, "Mo Money Mo Problems, Mo Charity Mo Peace", I dive into the kabbalistic powers of charity, a lesson from the Middle Ages of a Sultan...
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There’s Always Money In The Banana Stand (deuteronomy: eikev)
When I was living in Bushwick, NY, my roommate Aaron Wertheimer, an old childhood friend, would always watch Arrested Development. Seeing it in passing, I didn’t fully get the epicness of the show and its humor. When I gave it a real chance, I was hooked. I think it even topped Seinfeld in how...
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The Secret To Oneness (and the Shema) [deuteronomy: va'etchanan]
I remember learning the power of the Shema (שְׁמַע) as a little kid. It felt like I was in the world of Harry Potter and someone had clued me into the Patronus charm, so if I put myself into a deep enough spiritual space, I would be able to conjure up protective power. The Shema was a way to...
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Only God Can Judge Me (deuteronomy: deuteronomy)
Tisha B’av is the most somber day in the Jewish calendar. It’s sobering to think that thousands of years ago, we were on top of the world: in the Promised Land, with our Beit HaMikdash (Holy Temple), fully connected to Hashem (God) in a revealed state. It’s not a coincidence that the first word…
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Vanquishing Fears (number: massei)
The flip side of sleep and dreams is the one-sixtieth of death, and the flip side of faith is doubt which begins a vicious cycle of anxiety and brings us further from faith and peace. Many have been taught and can certainly feel that Shabbat is one-sixtieth of the World to Come, that is why the...
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