Over the last two weeks I’ve spent a lot of time with my daughter preparing her for college and helping her deal with leaving behind a boyfriend she cares about deeply. These two teens maturely choose to end the relationship to allow each other freedom while they live on opposite coasts and experience life in …
Be not like a fly seeking sore spots. Cover up your neighbor’s flaws, and reveal them not to the world. This saying, which comes from a traditional Jewish ethical text, always conjures up somewhat nasty images in my head of wounds covered with flies. Yet, it’s a potent image–and effective. I try to remember this …
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I know the uselessness of anger. I know the damage it causes both emotionally and physically. Yet, sometimes anger proves the most difficult emotion to change. Once it comes over me, it feels like it attaches itself to me like a vice with no removal mechanism. I’m left to watch the negative results set forth …
As my daughter prepares to leave for college, she wavers between excitement about the new life she is starting and the old one she is ending—in particular the romantic relationship coming to a close. Smart enough to know better than to pursue a four month-old relationship bi-coastally as they both enter their freshman years in …
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Have you ever noticed that life seems to consist of one phase after another? These are marked by certain periods of time with certain characteristics. Maybe you fill your time with particular activities, are involved with particular people, or feel overwhelmed by particular emotions. Maybe your deal with an illness, a death, a lost love, …
I once participated in a ropes course where I was asked to climb tall poles, walk across a wire strung between two tall trees (another narrow bridge…), and repel down a cliff. I had always thought myself afraid of heights, so performing these feats seemed unimaginable to me. However, I did almost all of them. …
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, usually falling near the end of summer. Based on a lunar calendar, the dates of Ramadan vary, moving backwards about ten days each year. This year Ramadan begins on August 11th and continue for 30 days until September 9th. In North America, it begins on August …
Putting the Universal Practices of Ramadan to Use in Your Life Read More »
Much of the time, we are consumed with desires. We want to have something different than what we now have. We want to be something different than what we now are. We want to go somewhere different than where we now exist. Although God created us in such a way that it is natural for …
Have you ever heard the saying, “Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it”? Sometimes the wish is fulfilled in usual ways. You have to be open to seeing the wish fulfilled no matter in what form it appears and to receive it even if it comes in a shape you didn’t …
What constitutes an act of God? Anything that isn’t caused by a human hand? If so, there’s a fine line between act of God or act of man in a mechanical failure, since the mechanical end, it could be argued was created by a human—or co-created between a human and God. However, whether or not …
Do You Blame God or Take Responsibility for Your Failures? Read More »
In Exodus 25:8-9, God says, “Build for me a sanctuary (mikdash), and I will dwell among you.” In this one verse from the Torah, or Old Testament, lies an invitation for each of us. We are asked to create a sanctuary in which to join together with God. An extremely detailed description of how to …
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I’ve spoken with several people recently—friends in their 50s—who have been married for 18-20 years. They all have had issues in their marriage in the last few years. It seems to me a normal process for people to change over that amount of time and for that fact to make it difficult for marriages to …
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