Supercharge Your Prayers
Discouraged that your prayers are far from ideal? Here is great advice about how to pray with real focus and yearning.
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Journeys, Long and Short
You, my dear, are on an expedition; you are a spark gatherer, a treasure hunter, a life giver, a people grower. Your pain and your pleasure, your waiting and your doing, it’s all movement, it’s all growing you.
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Why Success Feels Empty: Insight on Shaatnez
Why do we feel disconnected today? This Torah insight on shaatnez reveals the hidden tension between success and real human connection.
Animal Sacrifice: It’s Not What You Think
Is animal sacrifice cruel—or misunderstood? Explore how the Torah reframes ethics, compassion, and what it truly means to rise above instinct.
Turning Blessings Into Brotherhood
Your success might be hurting people more than helping them—and you don’t even realize it. Discover how the Thanksgiving Offering teaches you to turn your blessings into something that uplifts everyone around you.
The Cost You Were Meant to Feel
What if the Torah didn't just want you to regret your mistakes — but for you to truly feel them? And what if this feeling is what could change your life?
Practical Mercy, Part 2
“My wife and I are broken, Rabbi, we really don’t know what has happened to our sweet daughter. She was so tzaddikah, so modest, so sweet, so gentle, a homebody who always helped. And now she acts like a dybbuk (demon) got into her..."
Practical Mercy, Part I
There is no love like parents’ love for their children, and the connection starts already before birth. The parents are connected and attached to the child without even seeing him, without knowing who he is and what he is, unconnected with his deeds, or to any external factor.
Knowing What Time It Is
Time itself can be holy. And time itself can be a trap. And knowing the difference changes everything.
No Time Like Now
Tired of being scatterbrained while engaged in mitzvot? Given up on being mindful during prayers? There's no time like the present to get back on track...
Why? Abba!
Why was I put through that traumatic experience? What's my purpose in life? What's going to be with me? Rabbi Arush shows how all of these deep questions are really one question with a single answer...
The Key to a Successful Winter
You think winter is a slowdown, but step through your front door and you’ll discover a world in full spiritual bloom. This season isn’t here to bury you — it’s here to jump-start your soul.
We Will Hear and We Will Do
In the Torah portion “Yitro”, we read about receiving the 10 Commandments at Sinai. What is Yitro's special way of reacting to these events? Rabbi Arush explains how Yitro’s response should be our response.
Send Forth My Son, Part 2
We made new beginnings in our service of Hashem. After a short time, the excitement dimmed, the fire went out, and we were back to where we started. Rabbi Arush gives advice about how to finally and completely succeed!
Send Forth My Son, Part I
We all know how it goes... We made new beginnings in our service of Hashem. After a day or two or a week or two, the excitement dimmed, the fire went out, and we came back to where we started, only in greater despair. Rabbi Arush has encouraging news!
Think About YOU!
When you hear words of Mussar, do you find yourself thinking that they are meant for others (surely not yourself)? If so, the Kalever Rebbe has some advice for you!
Personal Love
How easy it could have been for Avraham to think “I’m too old”, “I’m melting in this heat”, “I’m in pain and need to rest”. What drove Avraham to overcome all logical reasons for hosting guests? Rabbi Arush gives an amazing answer that applies to us!
The Pain, the Pinch, and the Power of Offerings
Imagine repenting not with words, but by sacrificing the animal that you raised from birth. That’s what our ancestors did. Somewhere between the altar and the algorithm, we forgot how powerful offerings to God can be.