Many wonderful teachings come from our Mussar tradition, a set of Jewish teachings that offer guiding principles and encourage us to pay attention [...]

דְּאָגָ֣ה בְלֶב־אִ֣ישׁ יַשְׁחֶ֑נָּה וְדָבָ֖ר ט֣וֹב יְשַׂמְּחֶֽנָּה If there is anxiety in a person’s heart let them quash it and turn it into joy [...]

While the past seven months have been wrought with many struggles, we have also received some great blessings from spending more time at [...]

We read Psalm 27 daily for fifty days straight, from the beginning of the month of Elul through the end of Sukkot. By [...]

As we lead up to the holiday of Sukkot, one where we normally enjoy large gatherings for eight days in a row, we [...]

Where has this week vanished? Is it lost forever? Will I ever recover anything from it? The joy of life, the unexpected victory, [...]

Jewish tradition offers us many ways to understand God, and the Hebrew language has over one hundred names for the Divine. Each of [...]

My dad and I share a common taste in books and movies and for many years we have shared in an informal book [...]

Illuminate the welders in shipyards with the brilliance of their torches. Let the crane operator lift up his arm for joy. Let the [...]

וֶהֱוֵי מְקַבֵּל אֶת כָּל הָאָדָם בְּסֵבֶר פָּנִים יָפוֹת Receive all people with a pleasant countenance. -Pirkei Avot 1:15 Every morning Adam, Ruby, and I [...]