What happens when a conversation you’ve already forgotten keeps someone else awake at night, and they find the courage to pick up the phone?
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A small card becomes an invitation to notice our blessings, embrace gratitude, and share what we have with others.
Continue ReadingThe Courage to Choose Love Over Hate
Choosing love over hate is an act of courage that can free us from the past, transform the present, and help us build a better future.
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Dear Friends – I know that beginning yesterday morning all of you received many blog posts from me in foreign languages. I was hacked. I profusely apologize for spamming your inbox (I received those posts as …
Continue ReadingElul As a Training Camp
Elul gives us time to prepare before the High Holy Days are even on the close horizon. Like training for a race, the goal is not simply to reach the finish line, but to be changed by the journey.
Continue ReadingOpen Your Hand, Open Your Heart
We live amid extraordinary beauty and abundance, yet need surrounds us. How can we open our hearts, open our hands, and make a difference?
Continue ReadingI Get By With a Little Help From My Friends
I almost said “no.” I’m grateful I didn’t. Sometimes the moments we’re most tempted to skip become the ones that bring the greatest blessings to our lives.
Continue ReadingFrom Lamentation to Consolation to Action
The Jewish calendar does not ask us to rush past grief. It teaches us how to move from lamentation to consolation, and from consolation to action.
Continue ReadingTzimtzum: The Sacred Pause
Tzimtzum is one of my favorite Hebrew words. It is a beautiful Jewish mystical teaching about making space for others, and perhaps one of the most needed spiritual practices for our world today.
Continue ReadingWhere Will Your Journey Take You?
A Bat Mitzvah seventy years in the making became a powerful reminder that life is not measured by how quickly we arrive, but by the courage, faith, and growth we discover along the way. Where will your journey take you?
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