During the Days of Awe, we must also consider if we are living up to our full human potential. We come to this earth plane not only with a soul’s purpose but with the potential to fulfill it and to live fully and to be our best selves. We as human beings – as spirits …
As Jews all around the world prepare for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, astrologers are watching as the new moon rises and six planets align in Virgo. What does this mean to us? It means that not only are we entering into the most holy 10 days of the Jewish year, a time of introspection, …
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When you travel, sometimes your bags get lost. However, no matter where you go, you can’t really lose your baggage — by which I mean your “stuff,” your issues. You can move, you can go away for a period of time, you can rearrange furniture, you can change your hairstyle and your wardrobe, but no …
No Matter Where You Go, You Can't Really Lose Your Baggage Read More »
When I was at the Aleph Kallah last month, I took a class with Arthur Kurzweil in which he taught us 20 Kabbalistic principles he would teach his children — and has. (I’ve met his son.) One keeps returning to my mind over and over again: If you think you’ve arrived, you’re lost. To me, …
Do you want to be good at something? Do desire to be the best at your art, profession, sport, or hobby? If so, do you work at perfecting what you do? If not, you won’t achieve your goal. Even if you possess an inordinate amount of talent, you still need to perfect what you do. …
Today I’d like to share a teaching of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov’s that truly speaks to me, especially since I do go out and teach. In fact, Rabbi Nachman’s wisdom, in this case, gave me permission to go out and teach what I knew. He taught me that everyone is a teacher, and we should …
In more than one mystical tradition, we are told that we know everything there is to know prior to being born into a physical body. We even know it while in utero. Then, once our little bodies make their way down through the birth canal and into the world, we forget all that knowledge and …
Why is Life about Remembering What We Have Forgotten? Read More »
While I was at the Aleph Kallah I had the opportunity to participate in a Red Heifer ritual led by Rabbi Shefa Gold. This ritual is not one normally performed…at least not that I know of, and it likely has not been performed since the days of the temple. We, of course, in Jewish renewal …
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 …
The Workings of Deadlines and Deadlines that Work Read More »
As my daughter left this morning to attend Easter Sunday services with her non-Jewish boyfriend, I thought about what she might take away from that service. I know she won’t be thinking about Easter from a personal growth standpoint as I do. And, despite my own Jewish leanings and upbringing, as always, I look at …
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I often talk about living life fully. You can approach life in this manner by adopting the attitude that this day could be your last. In Carlos Castaneda’s books, the character Don Juan suggested living with “death on your shoulder.” In Jewish tradition, we remember the fragile nature of life each night as we confess …
What Would You Wish You Had Accomplished if Today Were Your Last Day? Read More »
If failure was not an option, what would you do differently? By that I mean, if you just refused to fail, how would you act? If you said to yourself, “No matter what I will not fail. I will do whatever it takes for as long as it takes until I succeed.” If that was …
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