Part of a Whole
Every Jew is a tiny part of a united spiritual being called Israel. This explains why we often meet people that we feel we have known forever after one minute of small talk...
Yehudit Levy
Yehudit Levy
Forgiving and Forgetting
Read a riveting and inspiring story of one woman's efforts to obtain forgiveness for her childhood wrongs...
Building Bonfires
It is so easy to be introspective upon the bad we do, the mistakes we make, the misgivings we have. Yet how many of us do any introspection upon our good points?
Great Expectations
High Holiday prayers are vital, but everyone - especially mothers who can't spend hours on end in the synagogue - should remember the importance of their own personal prayer...
A Letter to Jerusalem
How does a person come to terms with the loss of his very life-source? Fortunately, we don't realize the true meaning of Tisha B'Av, or we'd lose our sanity...
Real Pearls
When we're down, we can remind ourselves that we are true pearls. And when we're feeling spiritually gratified, we can remember that we are still so close to our murky origins...
Checks and Balances
We must check ourselves daily, just like we check our rice or sift our flour. But in checking, we must also maintain balance and never lose our joy...
Just Desserts
Since our children are mirrors of our relationship with G-d, it slowly dawned on me that I was looking at a painfully candid replica of my own Avodat Hashem...
Messages, Madness, and Miracles
Casually or socially religious doesn’t work anymore, especially with people who have been given high-level souls; it’s scary not to have Hashem in your life...
Kindergarten Emuna
Some people never graduate from kindergarten-level emuna. Others drop the innocence of kindergarten emuna and become smug and sophisticated. What’s the happy medium?
Rebbe Nachman’s Stories: Overview
Rebbe Nachman didn’t preach; he said that people would only be brought close to G-d in a way that they were unaware of, subtly, without the feeling of indoctrination...
Going Undercover
I’m pretty sure the rest of the world didn’t notice anything. So how did a hair-obsessed female go from funky to frum (religious) in the flick of a ponytail?