May the real master please rise – who is your master? – Kabbalah teaches we have three masters: our mind can tell us what to do – our heart’s instincts for pleasure and fear of pain usually control our behavior – and our ego’s desire for recognition and fear, and anger of, or over shame, create very interesting human tendencies (desire for recognition obvious, but fear of shame / acquiescence, which is why must people are effectively sheep; and anger = vengeance and jealousy, hence antisemites, bullying etc. etc.) but here’s the true master – God – for God has no ego, nor instincts – he is pure goodness and kindness – the question is, how do we access God – and that is the whole point of Judaism…