A Picture with Esti Dear Esti, I was straightening up recently when I came across an overturned picture. I don’t know where it came from, but when I turned it over, I saw that it was a picture of you and me leaning in toward each other, with our heads touching and your hand around my shoulders. I spent a few seconds looking at it, remembering where and [...]
Chanukah and Tefillah: The Connection You Never Thought About Before the Yamim Noraim, I received the following email from Links Magazine: Hi! We are working on the Yamim Noraim magazine and want to do a Part II to Tefillah Questions Answered (we printed Part I two years ago).Do any of you have a question that you’d like our rabbanim to answer, or has anyone shared with you a [...]
Winning Words: The Communication Dance The legacy of Aharon Hakohen is that he was a rodef shalom (Pirkei Avos 1:12). He loved peace and would make sure to create it whenever he could. The well-known example is that he would tell one person that the other person felt bad about their machlokes and wanted to make up, and then he would go to the second person and [...]
פרק ב משנה יז The buzz word of today is self-care. You must take care of yourself. It will enhance your productivity. It will help you become a more emotionally stable person. We see ads all over the place touting this message: You deserve designer clothing. You deserve a five-star vacation. You deserve to indulge in today’s newest food craze. You… Hmmm…maybe I do. After all I have [...]
Perek gimmel, mishnah yud-ches says חביב אדם שנברא בצלם. The fact that man was created in the image of Hashem shows that he is beloved to Hashem.The mishnah is telling us the proper way to view ourselves. We should not feel arrogant or proud of who we are or of our talents and accomplishments. At the same time, we should not see ourselves as small and unimportant. Our [...]
Life moves forward. Phases come and go. Situations change. And time continues to move. I look back and see how I always thought that wherever I was, I would be there forever. I would forever be in elementary school. Then, of course, I’d be forever in high school. As a young newlywed, I thought I’d be at that stage forever – and I certainly couldn’t imagine being the [...]
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