I’ve often thought about how we, as Jews, pray…or how anyone, for that matter, prays. Most religions have prescribed prayers, those written out for us, that we recite on certain occasions, such as when someone dies, during a wedding, or during morning or evening prayers. We may also have specific prayers we say or read […]
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I’m a firm believer that things happen for a reason. That’s a hard concept to get your mind around when something bad happens just when thins are gong well, like when my son’s friend has graduated from high school and then has a long board accident that causes her to end up in a coma
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Did you know that fear and excitement show up the same way in your body? If you were hooked up to a machine that monitored your response to fear or to excitement, your body would respond the same way to both experiences. That means the body can’t tell the difference between the two. In Hebrew,
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What is it about a deadline that makes you actually get your work done? I’m a journalist; deadlines constitute a way of life for me. I deal with them day in and day out. I don’t typically like them, but I deal with them. I meet them-always. When I don’t have deadlines imposed on me
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The Hebrew word kabbalah comes from the Hebrew verb “lekabbel,” whose root kbl means “to receive” or “to welcome.” Thus, Kabbalah means “receiving” or “reception.” Most people define Kabbalah as a wisdom tradition or mystical tradition received from teacher to student, handed down from generation to generation. Thus, we receive it from someone. We become
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Today I weeded another section of my extremely large garden. Every spring it becomes totally overgrown with weeds. If I’m not quick, they become shoulder high or taller and go to seed. This year, I got to the job too late. Actually, I have way too many other things going on in my life to
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Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time at my computer early in the morning. I don’t mean at 6 a.m. I mean at 12:30 a.m. and at 1 a.m. and at 2 a.m. My days are so filled with marking things off my to-do list, handling emails and phone calls, social networking for business,
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Feeling joyous on Shabbat constitutes a great mitzvah (commandment or good deed) in Judaism. No matter your circumstances, you must be joyous on Shabbat. Plus, according to Rebbe Nachman, it’s impossible to feel a connection to God unless you can experience joy. Indeed, mitzvot, or commandments, are supposed to connect us to the Divine, and, we
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The holiday of Shavuot begins this year on the evening of May 28th. I started thinking about the holiday, it’s meaning and how to celebrate it more meaningfully when I saw a photo of my old rabbi from Congregation Etz Chaim in Lomard, Il, dressed as Moses and holding a staff and the tablets with
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It’s been a while since I posted anything about change, but today this video below arrived in my email box not once but twice, and I saw it on Facebook. So, I watched it not once but twice. People around the world are singing about one love, one heart…one God…in an effort to create change
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Here’s an interesting look at how actor Will Smith approaches life and manifestation. He sees life as the art of alchemy: changing lemons into lemonaide, if you will, just like his grandmother advised. This isn’t far off from the Law of Attraction, which may be what he is alluding to without ever saying it directly.
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I feel my life swirling somewhat out of control. Sometimes out of control seems like a good thing, like when you can let go and enjoy a water slide, experiencing the speed and the excitement of simply seeing where you end up. Other times it’s a scary thing, like driving down a mountain with no
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