The Human Aura: How Spiritual Energy and Mitzvot Affect Your Inner Light

What type of person are you? What kind of energy do you project to the world?  According to Zevulun Rabayev, the aura — the colorful field of light surrounding every person, can reveal your inner character, emotional state, and even your spiritual level.

Rabayev has been giving lectures and demonstrations on the aura for years, in Israel and abroad, explaining the seven energy centers (chakras) of the human body and showing live examples using his specialized aura device. “After I attended a lecture about the aura,” he recalls. “I was fascinated and decided to study the subject in depth.”

From Skeptic to Believer

Born in the former Soviet Union, Rabayev immigrated to Israel in 1976 as a child in a non-observant family. His first impression of the religious community was negative. “I used to ask, ‘Why do religious people bother others with their rules?’” he says with a smile. “I had many unanswered questions. As a logical person, I wanted to know what really happens when someone performs a mitzvah — when they make a blessing over food, keep Shabbat, or put on tefillin. What changes in real time?”

Years later, after his own return to faith, he began traveling the world — to the United States, England, Mexico, Sweden, Russia, Canada, Switzerland, Italy, and beyond, lecturing about the aura and spirituality. “The aura is the light that surrounds a person,” he explains. “There are several layers of light in the human body. The light at the center reflects personality, while the light on the sides reflects spiritual elevation.”

Seeing Spiritual Change in Real Time

Rabayev asserts that the aura visibly changes after performing a mitzvah. He has measured the auras of many people, including the late Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu and even a two-year-old child — both surrounded by a pure white aura, which is considered the highest level of spiritual purity.

He shares some stories: “Once, a young woman came on stage. I asked her to wash her hands for netilat yadayim. After she did, her aura color changed immediately. Then she read a newspaper and there was no change, but when she read Psalms (Tehillim), her aura transformed again. Almost everyone at that event later wrote that they would begin washing their hands regularly.”

Another case took place in Kiryat Ekron, where a woman insisted on being tested. After scanning her body, Rabayev told her she had experienced trauma that she had never healed from. She later confirmed that she had been attacked at age 18 and had never processed the event, exactly as the scan suggested.

He describes similar experiences in prisons, where most inmates displayed a red aura, symbolizing aggression — except one man surrounded by green light, who insisted he was innocent.

In Austria, he tested a woman whose aura didn’t appear at all. “We were embarrassed and thought the machine was broken,” he recalls. “But when we returned to Israel, we learned she had passed away. According to Jewish belief, the aura — the spiritual light, leaves the body shortly before death.”

How Can a Machine Measure Something Spiritual?

“Light frequencies exist in our world,” explains Rabayev. “The device measures these frequencies and translates them into colors that represent emotional and spiritual energy.”

The Seven Aura Colors and Their Meanings

Drawing from Indian and Kabbalistic sources, Rabayev explains that the human body contains seven main energy centers (chakras), each corresponding to a different color and aspect of the soul:

• Red: Physical vitality and life energy

• Orange: Emotion and creativity

• Yellow: Logic and intellect

• Green: Love and healing (heart and spine)

• Blue: Communication (throat)

• Violet: Intuition and spiritual insight (“third eye”)

• White: Spiritual purity, strongest after a mitzvah or good deed

The body’s central energy projects multiple colors, while the outermost layer of the aura radiates the entire rainbow, representing the full expression of a person’s soul.

How Reliable Is the Aura Device?

“The device has been on the market for about 13 years,” Rabayev says. “Its reliability is around 87%, which is quite good. The manufacturer told me there are about 24,000 such devices worldwide.”

The Deeper Purpose

“When I searched for truth,” Rabayev explains, “I didn’t want stories — I wanted to see proof with my own eyes. In my lectures, people actually see the change in their aura before and after performing a mitzvah. It strengthens faith, because they witness real, physical signs of spiritual transformation.”

A Personal Journey of Transformation

“Before I became religious, I was a mechanical and electrical engineer. In the army I served in aircraft investigation and later ran a construction damage-detection business. In all those risky fields, I saw clear Divine Providence. Eventually, I left it all behind and went to study Torah full time.”

Rabayev’s message is simple: Spiritual actions have visible impact. Our thoughts, emotions, and mitzvot create real changes — not only in heaven but also in the energy we radiate to the world. “When you act with faith, kindness, and holiness,” he says, “your aura shines brighter — and so does your soul.”