You cannot appreciate light until you have experienced darkness. And certainly you cannot appreciate yourself until you lose yourself. So it goes that you must lose yourself to appreciate who you are. And at times you have to remember who you were to value whom you’ve become. Shabbat is that wonderful time where you find …
What I’ve come to learn from Torah is that possibly the two most important words in a relationship is “thank you”. Rooted in the heart of every human is not only a desire to be wanted but a need to be needed. We all need to be, to supremely feel, that someone out there desires …
Sometimes I don’t know what is a greater blessing G-d gave: to remember or to forget? Remembering is what makes our humanity. Forgetting is what helps us keep our sanity. Without the gift of remembering we lose the meaning and beauty of life. Without the gift of forgetting we die many times over before we …
I love Sundays because it’s that one day where I completely lose myself in time. I don’t carry a watch, put aside my phone and just go with the flow. It’s kind of beautiful to do nothing, and I set time for nothingness every Sunday. Ironically, I find it to be the most productive day. …
It is a fact of life that a person never gives up hope for something he deeply cares about. To despair, therefore, would not indicate a heartfelt concern but rather a lack of real concern. Consequently, to lose hope is to lose your desire for your concern and your concern for your desire.
What is the difference between love and kindness? Is not kindness simply a manifestation of love and love an expression of kindness? For it is a kindness to love and a loveliness to be kind. 2013
It’s been over a week now since the passing of Rav Ovadia Yosef. With almost a million people who went to his funeral, I keep on wondering what was it about him that made him so great. Two things defined him: his love for Torah and his love for his people. The underlying strand that …