Rosh Hashanah – Taking a Breath — By Ben
Take a deep breath.Catch your breath.Don’t hold your breath.Save your breath. It seems that when we are overwhelmed, doing ab crunches, or panicking from the throngs of life’s most tenuous […]
Letting Go And Holding On: The High Holy Days Simplified – By Marc
Letting go of control or admitting you are not in control should be a relatively easy thing to do. And yet human beings have great difficulty with this. Heck, I […]
10 Levels of Bitachon — By Ben
It was New Years eve of 2019 that my brother gave me, as a belated Chanukah present, Chovos HaLevavos (in English – Duties of the Heart). I had asked him […]
Arrest Also Means To Stop – By Marc
Ben often reminds me to make sure my posts come specifically back to Torah or offer up a direct lesson in Judaism. I think they do for the most part, but […]
Shoftim – The War for Happiness — By Ben
Chodesh Tov everyone! As of today, we start the big push towards the High Holidays. Can you believe it? Seems like only yesterday I was nervously wondering whether I should […]
How Do We Save The World… Do We Build An Ark Or A Tent? – By Marc
Let me preface this by saying that this post is all thanks to my brilliant friend Howard Witkin and his ongoing Pirkei Avos class. His guidance, leadership and teachings have […]
Tu B’Av – More than the Jewish Valentine’s Day — By Ben
If you’re not super observant you’ve probably never heard of the holiday of Tu B’Av. Translated to mean the 15th day of the Jewish month of Av, it is a […]
Finding The Light Of Day In The Darkest Mourning – By Marc
Tisha B’Av is a reminder of some incredible loss… both of our Temples (586 B.C.E. and 70 C.E.), and a variety of tragedies and other massacres that befell the Jewish […]
Missing The Target and Beyond — By Ben
I love SodaStream. I discovered club soda/seltzer/carbonated water during my waiting tables days, running through the kitchen and banquet halls of a massive Asian restaurant. Over the years, I went […]
It ALL Matters… But The Truth REALLY Matters – By Marc
“In the end, all that matters is the truth, and whether or not you always do the right thing with it.” – MG We are living in very strange and […]
