Thought of
the week.

This week, the theme of charity has come up multiple times. I had one person ask me, “I have given away so much money, and the Torah says God will reimburse me and reward me, so how is it that I’m struggling financially?” Separately, my dear friend asked, with all…

The grave sin of the Golden Calf showed us the greatest level and form of leadership in the history of mankind. That leader was Moses. What made Moses the greatest leader of his time and still to this day, is that he knew that without his people he wasn’t anything.…

If you seek sudden inspiration, then work at it every day for a year or a lifetime. That is how it comes. As a famous golfer is said to have said when asked for the secret of his success: “I was just lucky. But the funny thing is that the…

God, prayer, spiritual practice, and soul connection are all ideas I think about daily. I begin each day with gratitude, thanking God for all the good in my life while turning it over and surrendering the uncomfortable. Even with this practice, it took me a very long time to come…

I have been thinking of all of the gifts God has bestowed upon me, and about how everything that has happened to me is really for me, as I get to be there with people through their struggles, just as I have struggled. Of course, I wish that I could…

One of the Ten Commandments and the basis of all Judeo-Christian values is, “thou shall not covet.” All of the other commandments relate to actions, yet this is a feeling. How can a feeling be wrong, and for that matter, how can a feeling be controlled? A simple answer is…

How do you handle situations when you have changed your mind, when you have decided, after sometime, to institute a boundary that you haven’t before? How do you explain to someone that the behavior that you seemed to be okay with for so long, just isn’t okay? I have found…

In the Jewish tradition, we are instructed to repeat the story of the exodus from Egypt in detail every year and remember it daily. Additionally, on the annual commemoration of Passover, we are instructed to tell our children the story and its significance. We know that we are instructed to…

“Don’t worry about the state of someone else’s soul and the needs of your body. Worry about the needs of someone else’s body and the state of your own soul.” – Rabbi Levi Yitzchok I look at this statement and it tells me everything I need to know about the…

It is well known that the Chinese ideogram for “crisis” also means “opportunity”. Any civilization that can see the blessing within the curse, the fragment of light within the darkness, has within it the capacity to endure. Hebrew goes one better. The word for crisis, mashbe, also means “a child-birth…