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Archive: July 2018

Look At Your Life Through Heaven’s Eyes (Ma’asei – 07/14/18)

Posted on July 23, 2018

Look At Your Life Through Heaven’s Eyes We move often; the average American moves once every seven years. Sometimes it’s due to an educational or occupational opportunity, sometimes we’re downsizing Continue Reading »

What’s The Best Way To Inspire Our Children? (Chukat – 06/23/18)

Posted on June 29, 2018

What’s The Best Way To Inspire Our Children? Do we try to influence them by sharing with them our loves and passions, or do we let them seek and discover Continue Reading »

We Need To Give Credit Where Credit Is Due (Korach – 06/16/18)

Posted on June 19, 2018

We Need To Give Credit Where Credit Is Due This past week there was much to fret about in the news: Tariffs possibly wreaking havoc and the painful separation of immigrant Continue Reading »

If You Will It, It Is No Dream (Shelach – 06/09/18)

Posted on June 13, 2018

If You Will It, It Is No Dream Life’s challenges can be daunting.  From changing our diet to healing broken families to making our schools safe, “Mission Impossibles” seem to Continue Reading »

Moses Had A Bad Day (Beha’alotecha – 06/02/18)

Posted on June 6, 2018

Moses Had A Bad Day We all have our bad days. Sometimes we’re just not up to par. In our Parsha, Moses, our great leader, has one of those days. Continue Reading »

The Greatest Thing You’ll Ever Learn (Behar-Bechukotai 05/12/18)

Posted on May 15, 2018

The Greatest Thing You’ll Ever Learn This Sunday was Mothers’ Day as well as Yom Yerushalayim, the day we regained sovereignty over all of Jerusalem through victory in the Six Continue Reading »

Sinners or Saints? The Death of Rabbi Akiva’s Students (Emor Lag B’Omer 05/05/18)

Posted on May 7, 2018

Sinners or Saints? The Death of Rabbi Akiva’s Students One would think that if a mourning period was declared, it would be over some thing or person worth mourning. Yet, we Continue Reading »

Friedrich Nietzsche and the Plague of Tzaraat (Tazria-Metzora 04/21/18)

Posted on April 24, 2018

Friedrich Nietzsche and the Plague of Tzaraat   Today’s Parsha deals with metaphysical affiliations of the skin, clothes or home called Tzaraat.  Many of the readings in Leviticus are wearying; Continue Reading »

Spiritual Resilience (Shabbat after Yom Hashoah 04/14/18)

Posted on April 18, 2018

Spiritual Resilience This past Thursday was Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance day. The Holocaust means something different to each one of us. Some of us are children of survivors, or lost Continue Reading »

Making Sense of Death (Yizkor Passover 04/07/18)

Posted on April 11, 2018

Making Sense of Death Yizkor is a moving service to honor those precious friends and family members whose presence is so sorely missed over the holidays.  Some of them passed Continue Reading »

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