Happiness is a state of a person that corresponds to the greatest inner satisfaction with the conditions of his existence, the fullness and meaningfulness of life, the fulfillment of his calling and self-realization. “Happy are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God.” Many of Jesus’s listeners…
Jesus’ remark “whoever looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart” is not something that people like to mention. It’s not just that we can’t learn to control our sexuality. It’s that most people are confused that neither priests, nor preachers, nor the church…
Speaking in the Capernaum synagogue, in the presence of numerous officials of the Jerusalem Sanhedrin, Jesus spoke out openly against the tradition of ritual hand and body washing. In conclusion, He essentially declared that ritual washing was unnecessary, since “it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a…
It was truly an unusual sight for all Jewry to see a man of righteous character mixing freely and perhaps cheerfully with the uneducated common people, with tax collectors who were virtually expelled from the synagogues and Jewish society, and with the so-called “sinners” – the far-religious lovers of entertainment.…
In the biblical religion of Israel (the era of the Second Temple), the central and obligatory element according to the Torah was sacrifice: daily sacrifices, sacrifices on holidays, sacrifices for sin, purification, and so on. After the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in the seventieth year of…
At noon the marble villa gleamed in the sun. Inside, in the cool of the atrium, a patrician in a spotless toga sat by a low table. A servant handed him a cup of dark, thick wine—aged and aromatic, as if it had absorbed the centuries of his noble lineage.…
A man blind from birth does not know the difference between light and darkness—there is no bright morning or dark evening for him. Words like white, red, or blue are for him nothing more than sounds, behind which he guesses some meaning, but never truly experiences it. Yet he feels…
Here is an actor standing backstage. The dim light is filtering through the cracks in the curtain, the stage is breathing loudly with emptiness, the audience is waiting in the hall. He closes his eyes. He takes off – invisibly, but noticeably – the clothes of everyday worries, like an…
The sun was high, generously flooding the rocky banks of the Jordan with light. The river, slow and warm, flowed between willows and reeds. Bright reflections lay on the surface of the water – like silver birds that had settled down to rest. People stood on the shore with bare…
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Our planet is Earth. On its surface the oceans roar, forests grow, the seasons change, cities arise and whole civilizations come into being. People love and hate, build homes, make discoveries, are born and die. It seems that everything most important happens right here. But all this life exists only because of an invisible center…
Imagine a ring on your finger. As long as it stays on your finger, it belongs to you. If one day the ring slips into the grass, you can lose it in an instant. That is how many people imagine salvation: as a precious object. Some fear dropping it, others are convinced it cannot be…
The growth of a plant is governed by a genetic program and by environmental conditions. A plant does not have the conscious ability to say, “That’s enough, I’ll stop growing now.” Yet not all plants follow the same pattern. Annuals (for example, wheat or sunflowers) go through a cycle: they germinate, grow, flower, produce seed,…
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