Turn a Stranger into a Family Member — by Barbara Heller
Feeling Stuck in a Narrow Place? Change your Perspective, Create a New Vision, and relentlessly Take Action towards making that vision happen when you want to break THROUGH your own […]
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The Mystery of the Wrapped Pei — By Devorah
The first goal I remember from childhood was my resolve to speak, read, and write every language on earth, so that I would never come across a symbol that I […]
Soften Your Gaze By the Candlelight — By Barbara Heller
One thing I love about living in the “shtetl” as some of my friends and family sweetly call the Jewish community that I live in, is that there are […]
#MeToo In the Time of Noach — By Barbara Heller
Me too. Me too. Me too. With the recent outpouring and revelation of personal trauma that has taken social media by storm, it is extraordinary to see how these instances of […]
Making True Peace is Not About Being Silent – By Barbara Heller
Sometime in mid-Av, 5777 or July of 2017, I found myself walking and sweating profusely in the streets of Tiberias (Northern Israel) and I sat down to write the following […]
Praying with Two Hearts — By The Anonymous Blogger
Mishneh 4:21 in Pirkei Avos reads, Rabbi Elazar Ha-Kapar says, Kinah, Taivah, and Kavod drive a man out of the world. Kinah is translated as envy or jealousy. Kavod is the […]
Joel Osteen Made Me a More Spiritual and Religious Jew — By The Anonymous Blogger
Evangelical minister Joel Osteen made me understand why becoming a more spiritual Orthodox Jew was important in my life. Growing up in California to parents of the Orthodox Jewish faith […]
Hard but Good: Chronic Pain’s Journey into Motherhood — By Ilana Tatarsky
“You think you have no energy now? Just wait…” I am nine months pregnant with my first child and am scratching my head as to why this well-meaning person thinks […]
Divine Hug in Real Time — By Barbara Heller
There’s a song by the great Sara Bareilles, “Hold My Heart”. That song was playing in my head this morning. Its one of her lesser known hits but it always […]
Re’eh: To See or To Be Seen — By Barbara Heller
I once heard a great Jewish leader, Stuie Wax say, “If you wanna understand what is going on in the world for the week just look to the Parsha.” It […]
