The process of creativity - or in fact any process - is mostly messy. When you come to present your work, none of that messiness need be on display. Your past is the process. The present is your time for presentation. Leave behind, the messiness which has made you who you are and show up in your full majesty.

What differentiates humans from other organisms is not their capacity to do good. All organisms do some good. What humans can do that no other organism can, is restrain themselves from doing wrong.  In this capacity lies their greatness.

Urgency is not the same as haste. Haste is a measure of speed and can at times be careless. Urgency is a character trait, an inner attitude that gives a certain quality of mindfulness and attentiveness to what one does. We learn these ideas from some of the laws of the Beit Hamikdash.

The term "Shechina" is used loosely and for a wide variety of meanings. What does it really mean? Is it just another term for God, or does it have its own unique meaning.

Every idea or initiative has its optimal moment for implementation. When an individual is passionate about it, which means s/he cares about it and feels its urgency, the optimal moment is the first moment possible.

The Talmud is not a text of science or history; it is a methodology of first-principle thinking that enables the discovery of the meaning of life and the understanding of  God's will.

Bureaucracy is a necessary "evil" in society. It is "evil" because it reduces all of humanity to the lowest common denominator of trust and dehumanizes individuality. Is there anything to be done about this? This episode suggests ways to approach it.

Any individual has the capacity to inspire another.  This capacity can be used both positively and negatively. Especially when it comes to inspire people into a closer relationship with Hashem, it needs to be done in ways that are pure both in intent and in method. A fascinating insight from the Lubavitcher Rebbe explains the parallels between this, and the lighting of the Menorah.

We open our minds to a different concept of space and time as we learn how our feelings can influence not only the present but also the future and even the past.

There are times when the performance of a mitzvah could put an individual at risk. This episode explores how we approach this tension and how we resolve it.