Category: Inspiration

According to the Sefer HaChinuch, the reason we count the days between Pesach to Shavous is to show our great yearning and anticipation for the receiving of the Torah. When you are looking forward to an event, typically you count down the remaining days. For example, a bride looking forward to her wedding day will exclaim “ I am getting married In ten days, nine days, eight days!!!”  Continue reading “Sefiras HaOmer: Not just counting the days but making your days count”

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Wouldn’t it be great to have a calming machine that goes with you wherever you are? It wouldn’t guarantee that you’ll always be calm. But this machine would work relatively quickly to help you calm down whenever you are in an agitated state. Continue reading “Calming Yourself”

Imagine there was a machine connected to your brain and pressing its buttons would change your state. One button would put you into a joyous state, another into an angry state, and a third would make you feel sad. There would be buttons for confidence, anxiety, courage, guilt and every other possible state. Continue reading “Make your Own Happiness”

Rabbi Don Channen is a co-author along with Rabbi Yaakov (Jon) Goldman of the colorful comics The Great Game of Kashrut, a book for the entire family. It simplifies and “gamifies” the most common and complicated Kashrut cases by making them fun and engaging.  Continue reading “A 2-Minute Life Lesson – Keep the Fire Burning”

For over 30 years, Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein ztl was a popular educator, speaker and fundraiser with a “heart of gold.” His hundreds of classes were delivered with a fiery passion and a deep love for all Jews. For many of his classes he never took a fee. He went above and beyond to reach out to numerous young men and women regardless of their religious affiliation. He even paid to send kids to yeshiva and to Israel.  Continue reading “Tribute to Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein ztl”

Baruch Hashem. The view out my window this morning is one of bright sunshine, a clear blue sky, melting snow, and trees that hold the promise of budding leaves. My knitting needles are clicking and forming the last afghan- rainbow hued for that precious granddaughter- and are ready to tackle a more complicated project: a sweater, complete with new stitches and complicated directions. Speaking of complicated directions, allow me to digress for a moment. Continue reading “Gratitude in March in New England – Spring and flowers and Pesach and Seders and a birthday!”

 

What is the key to happiness? The answer: the key to your new Lexus. Continue reading “Happiness from the Torah Perspective”

One of the keys to achieving your life’s dreams is to act like a thermos and not like a thermometer. 

Continue reading “Are you a thermos or a thermometer? The Choice is Yours”

In the past many months since the COVID pandemic hit the world, my country of Israel has been in various levels of lockdown – the nation as a whole, this city, that town, this neighborhood, that school. Continue reading ““HIDDEN: The Secret Jews of Spain” An epic MUSICAL, made by women for women”

How does one achieve a life of bitachon, trust in G-d? Continue reading “Bitachon-Trusting in G-d”