Making Your Happiness Happen To feel great you must integrate The secret to true happiness is integration. It takes making sure that your daily activities are coordinated with your values and principles. If you innately feel that one of the fundamental principles of life is kindness and yet you do …
Can We Change God’s Mind? (Source 2) It is known that the idea of prayer is that when a tragedy befalls a person, he prays to HaShem and is answered in his prayer to nullify the decree and to save him from his predicament. All those who are wise of …
Can We Change God’s Mind? It is a known fact that God does not change. And so it is written: I am God, I did not change (Malachi 3:6). Rather the change is on the part of the recipients. It was already established when the recipients are worthy such and …
Facing a Faceless World Why we so need a Shabbat facelift There’s a very cute animated cartoon about Shabbat. It portrays a very busy day in Manhattan, a lot of noise and a lot of traffic, and you see a policeman in the middle of all this traffic, but he …
Are Commandments Walls or Bridges? Each morning of Sukkot, near the end of the festive prayer service, the entire congregation carries their four species, marches in a circle around the cantor (the leader of the service) who holds a Sefer Torah—the Torah scroll, and pray for rain. On the last …
Sukkot and Simchat Torah Celebrating Wholeness, Spontaneity and Anticipation Off to a Right Start The holiday of Sukkot reminds us of the huts of the Israelites as they wandered for forty years in the desert after their miraculous Exodus from Egypt . It would stand to reason, then, that Sukkot …
The Power of Kol Nidra By Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik …contemporary man is unaware of his needs. Man is surely aware of many needs, but the needs he is aware of are not always his own. At the very root of this failure to recognize one’s truly worthwhile needs lies man’s …
Yom Kippur: Getting the Forgiveness You Want and Need Yom Kippur is all about love and forgiveness. It’s about how we are always inseparably close to G-d. On Yom Kippur we get a glimpse of ourselves, our choices and our relationship to G-d from another perspective–G-d’s perspective. This is the …
MAKING EVERY MOMENT MOMENTOUS #Parsha Moses never makes it to the Promised Land. Does his life end unfilled? Is he a tragic figure? No. Moses knew the secret of life. He understood that the goal of life is not in the promised future but in every moment. There is an …
Building the Kingdom of Consciousness Secrets to a Great New Year The Kabbalah teaches, “There is no king without a nation.” This point requires deep exploration especially on Rosh Hashanna when we acknowledge G-d as our King. It may make sense that, in the human world, a king is dependent …
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