![]() Wednesday, October 14 2020 Purpose Before Process How the Creation of Light Creates a Road Map for Personal Success Have you ever looked back at life and thought that maybe, just maybe, you’ve raced your way to a dead end? Psychologists, life coaches, and your next door neighbor all agree: To win the race of life, you must first know where you’re going. It turns out they’re all agreeing with none other than G‑d Himself. ![]() Wednesday, October 21 2020 Words Shape Reality. Use Them Wisely. Sometimes HOW We Speak Is More Important Than WHAT We Speak Much has been said about the power of words. So how do we balance the need to be articulate and clear with our desire to be sensitive and sanitary with our speech? The Torah’s precise choice of words shows us how. ![]() Wednesday, October 28 2020 “You Do You,” They Said. Judaism Concurs. Finding Individual Expression in the Monolith of Jewish Observance Are you calm, excitable, loud, studious, ambitious, or shy? Or maybe something else? Whatever the answer, it seems that when it comes to religion, there simply isn’t any room for that. “Do this,” “Don’t do that,” and call it a day. Embedded in the covenant between G‑d and Abraham is the secret of a personal Judaism. ![]() Wednesday, November 4 2020 Leaping into Awesomeness Judaism, Post-Sinai, Is Nothing Like It Was Before “Reach for the stars.” It’s a nice cliché, but really? – You can’t possibly touch the stars! Follow a winding path that starts with a deep analysis of our forefathers’ religious status to the mountaintop of Sinai, and discover how, indeed, you can reach even higher than the stars. ![]() Wednesday, November 11 2020 Don’t Take the Easy Way Out Being Gifted Is Great; Working Hard Is Even Better In what can arguably be the most un-Jewish thing to do, we read that Avraham insisted on paying full price for a piece of real estate. Why? Avraham’s purchasing habits, emulated by his descendant King David, teach a powerful lesson: in life, paying full price is the only way to truly make it yours. ![]() Wednesday, November 18 2020 To Plow Is to Sow Is to Reap Two Sides of the Teshuvah Coin To look at your life in shambles and exclaim, “Oy!” is decidedly unproductive. It may look good, but it’s not going to get you anywhere. Take a cue from Yitzchak, who prefaced a blessing to his son with . . . visions of a plowed field. Why? Because the engine for true growth is in the dismemberment wrought by the plowshares. ![]() Wednesday, November 25 2020 Rooting Out Recidivism The Quest to Cure the Problem, Not the Symptom Fierce debates rage around questions of law and order, the rate of incarceration, and community policing. Yaakov’s swift departure from the fabled town of Be’er Sheva, to avoid peace talks, is the surprising setting in which the insight to these questions can be found. ![]() Wednesday, December 2 2020 The Day Your Soul Is Set Afire The Chassidic Holiday You’ve Never Heard of That Will Change Your Life A famed Chassidic master taught that when we set out to conquer the world, we should only let our bodies out of the gate, remaining true to our soul. This pithy teaching contains the secret to the life you’re looking for, and there’s a whole new holiday to celebrate it. Lechayim! ![]() Wednesday, December 9 2020 The Treadmill of Life If Yesterday Was Good, Today Must Be Even Better Learning to take your first step as a baby was a true feat. As an adult, it’s hopefully not. That’s the way it works: Yesterday’s accomplishment becomes today’s norm—and it’s up to you to build from there. Access this truth by way of a curious Scriptural quirk about an obscure Canaanite city. ![]() Wednesday, December 16 2020 Every Victory Is Worth Celebrating You Don’t Have to Win the War, So Concentrate on the Battle “What is Chanukah?” asks the Talmud. Far from this being a simple question any Hebrew School kid can answer, the Talmud challenges us to ask what it is that we consider to be the primary lesson of the Chanukah miracle. Look to the candles and remember that it’s not so much about winning as it is about fighting. ![]() Wednesday, December 23 2020 A Time to Cry, a Time to Act If There’s Anything You Can Still Do, Do It! There are many roadblocks to change. Lack of focus, lack of resources, or laziness, to name a few. An epic meeting between two long-lost brothers, climaxing in heartfelt tears, clues us in to more than one solution to these challenges. Their story will wipe your tears and get your engines going. ![]() Wednesday, December 30 2020 Messianic Why Believing in Mashiach Is Fundamental to Our Faith Maimonides famously classified believing in the messianic era as one of the thirteen principle of faith. Why? Discover how hoping, anticipating, and syncing with Mashiach underpins everything we do. |
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