When something happens in our life that renders us vulnerable and helpless, we are most likely to look deeply inside ourselves and make fundamental changes. This change is our own personal Exodus. Read David’s recent experience after a car accident. Don’t wait until you’re 50 to break free!
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How can a woman get to the point where she is willing to cover her hair? She faces such opposition from within and without. Read the true story of one woman’s amazing journey.
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From Rose Bowl to Rashi
Read the beautiful story of the Murray's spiritual journey from being youth leaders in a Christian church to choosing Torah and Judaism. Read of their challenges, joys, and eventual fulfillment in becoming their true selves. [At end is a video clip interview with Rabbi Tovia Singer.]
Ditch Your Dreams
Sometimes, in order to fulfill your wildest dreams, you have to ditch some dreams that really weren’t meant for you along the way. Clearly, G-d knew better…
Supermodel
Back in the nineties, when ‘supermodels’ were just starting to be massively-paid celebrities in their own right, Israeli-born Avichai Cohen appeared to have it made...
How Shame Hurt My Emuna
The G-d I had known was exacting. The new G-d was forgiving... A true story of how a child filled with shame grows to an adult who is certain of Hashem's love.
From the Pits
DG is doing time in a Texas prison for a violent crime. He found himself in a kill or be-killed situation, for it's not easy to be a Jewish boy in an environment like that…
Peeling the Veneer
She started to doubt G-d, and to doubt the purpose and point of all the rules that religious Jews keep. In her secret soul, she started to wonder what good it was doing her…
My Burning Bush Moment
We ate matzot on Passover and bacon-lettuce-and-tomato sandwiches on Shabbat. Accentuating our similarities with general Santa Barbara society was our family's major objective...
Individuality
Individuality is a gift, not a liability. The more we can learn to accept it, the faster our shortcomings become opportunities and the darkness in our lives become light…
Let Go of Guilt
I felt contrite, worried, apprehensive, nervous, anxious, unclear, and unbalanced. I started to cry, pleading with Hashem to forgive me for turning on the light…
A Blessing in Disguise
She was a popular teenager with plenty of boys asked her out on dates. But, for some strange reason, something always came up to postpone the Friday night date…
The Language of Lyme’s Disease – Part 2
My worries were piling up: being physically disabled, being unable to continue my job as a trainer, or even death, I realized that the Lymes was nothing more than a message…
Emuna with Lyme’s Disease – Part 1
My worries were piling up: being physically disabled, being unable to continue my job as a trainer, even death; I realized that I still had a lot of fear to overcome…
Setting the Stage
Sometimes, our lowest points in life and our greatest setbacks are simply preparing the way for a new life of happiness, success and fulfillment...
My Brother
The cab driver had a shaved head and a scorpion tattooed on his neck. In his right ear, he sported a diamond-stud earring. He certainly wasn't from my part of the country…
The Tougher League
Baseball fans sigh with relief that Yom Kippur is early this year, so they won't miss the World Series. One ballplayer learned about teshuva from his rise to the Major League..
The Cheeseburger Sacrifice
He loved Judaism but he couldn't give up the cheeseburgers. Why were the Torah and the rabbis so fanatic to deny him the one pleasure that he craved?