You feel that there has to be more!
More love, more happiness, more meaning.
You want to improve your relationship with your self, with your partner, your children, and others around you.
You want to understand this world better and expand your horizons.
This is what Choosing to Connect is about.
It’s a place where you can connect all the dots of your life and take it to a whole new level!
What is Choosing to Connect?
Choosing to Connect brings you practical applications from Social psychology and the Science of Connection, also known as The Wisdom of Kabbalah, to help you make your life work on all levels. Kabbalah is an ancient method that is amazingly relevant for our times. Through its clear cut teachings about our personal nature, and how we are connected to everyone and everything else, Kabbalah brings a real cure to anything in our world that is shattered or broken. It is a universal method made to help people connect above differences, and fulfill their highest potential in the process. Backed up by my research in Social Psychology, these tools are scientifically proven to create a profound, positive change in your life.
Why Choose to Connect?
Know yourself better. Understand others
In Choosing to Connect you will discover the inner mechanisms that motivate you and get to know what drives you in your life. You will learn why you behave the way you do, and how to change what isn’t working for you. This will also enable you to see other people in your life much more clearly.
Learn new skills that will transform your relationships
Get the know-how to improve your relationships on all fronts. You will learn the principles necessary for making relationships work harmoniously and grow thanks to any hardship that comes along.
Learn how you can influence your life for the better
Choosing to Connect will help you expand your horizons, understand the world better, and foresee the trends that affect our lives. This will enable you to truly make an impact in the world, with your work, your projects and even, your thoughts and intentions!
Fulfill your highest potential
Our highest potential is yet to be tapped into. Ultimately, we can only be all that we can be in connection with others. In Choosing to Connect, you will learn how to realize your self to the fullest, in connection to the whole!

My Story
Hi! I’m Tal Mandelbaum. I am a mom, a psychologist MSc, and a writer.
I have always been passionate about understanding who we are, and how to be happy. As a sensitive person I experienced the complexities and challenges of relationships as I grew up, but I never felt that I had enough tools and awareness to really understand what was happening.
This need to know myself, and to understand the world around me, pushed me to research and learn more.
Psychology was a natural field for me to delve into, as I just had to understand the workings of our inner life.
In my psychological research, I used brain science to test how relationships influence our inner emotional states.
I saw how competition and separation create stressful and often negative emotions, whereas connection induces calm and enables more positive emotions to arise. Cooperation mitigated the experience of loss, social comparison and the effects of stress.
Yet, these crucial understandings remained theoretical and incomplete without a method to create good connections.
Thankfully, I found the answer to this in Kabbalah- the science of connection, which I have now been studying for over ten years.
For the past six years I have also been presenting the “New Life” TV series with renowned Kabbalist, Dr. Michael Laitman, where I have asked all of my deepest questions about life, happiness and love.
Interviewing renowned Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman in “The New Life Series”
So how did I find Kabbalah?
Together with my contemplative side, I was also sensitive to the competition and social comparison all around me. I chased the same sort of goals as everyone else, but it wasn’t until I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness at the age of 24 that l realized I had to change everything. I felt that all of the goals that I had set for myself did not really matter to me, that I had to find something much more meaningful to pursue.
As part of my healing process, I focused on expanding my horizons and discovering what it was that really made life worth living.
I searched through every method, technique, spiritual teaching, and book I could get my hands on, but it wasn’t until I came across the Wisdom of Kabbalah, that I felt I had found what I was looking for.
I couldn’t settle for anything but a complete explanation of my life and how everything connected.
Kabbalah is a science of the connected system we are all part of. It gives you the bigger picture, as well as the practical tools to reach your fullest potential.
Studying this incredible wisdom has helped me makes sense of my inner world and the world at large. It has shown me the way to creating deeper relationships with everyone around me. It allowed my marriage, my pregnancies, and my parenting to be inspired.
I want to share that with all of you.
I believe this is knowledge that must be shared and passed forward.
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I wish all of us that we succeed in creating a world of connection, trust, love, and happiness. Together!