BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

A HEARTFELT THANK YOU!!! This weekend my other blog got it's 500,000th hit. That's 1/2 a Million hits in the 6 years since I opened that site to the public. I am honored and awed that so many have found resources and answers there. I am moved often to tears by the thank you emails I get from women & men who found the strength and information they needed to reclaim their lives there. I started that blog in November, 2003 as a way to keep my own personal research on abuse private and out of view from people around me, including my abusive ex. As a voracious reader and a research junkie... I needed answers and I got them. Five years ago I was (for hopefully the LAST time in my life), 'emotionally & psychologically raped' by a narcissistic sociopath. A man who I had cared for more than 1/2 my life and had no idea of his true nature for 27 years. I was left feeling very used & alone with no one to trust. Particularly myself. I made a decision to open this si...

A prayer in need, a prayer indeed Rav Michael Laitman Tikkun In Kabbalah, the term Tikkun (correction) is the most important concept. It is the means to achieve the Creator's goal in creating His beings (us). Jewish tradition is teeming with stories about Kabbalists secluding themselves or going on solitary journeys in the mountains to make Tikkunim (plural for Tikkun). Reality, alas, is far less romantic than that. A Tikkun is the transformation of one's qualities from egoism to altruism. In simpler words, when a person stops thinking of his or her own well-being, and starts thinking of everybody else's benefit, that person is considered corrected. Kabbalah (and, of course, not only Kabbalah) explains that the Creator is benevolent and wants to do good to His creations. Kabbalah also explains that since He is the best thing that exists, He wants to make us like Him. At the moment of birth, they tell us, we are nothing like Him, but our every trait is completely...