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 …
Frustration is born out of hope. The belief that what is should not be; the hope that what is could be better. Should be better. And with sufficient faith and courage – will be better. I came back from Israel with everything yet I left everything behind. At times I feel my heart unwinding because …
The most exhausting emotion is the emotion of missing someone. It’s constantly on your mind, tenderly in your heart, manifests through your actions, expressed through your emotions. What’s interesting is that missing someone is a sweet yet painful feeling. When you miss the person you’re reminded of your love for them, and when you’re reminded …
Unadulterated, true self-certainty, can only be a product of what one thinks of himself, and perforce, what others think of him. When one’s certainty arises only from his internal calculus, then it is arrogance. When one’s certainty solely arises from external gestures, it is superficial. Either scenario creates a human personality, whose apparent self-certainty, is …
There are many trials and tribulations, stresses and strains, that leaders will face. The litmus test of a par excellent leader, and an intimate, tender, human being, in my opinion, is your ability to: 1) Listen and take advice from those around you, and give heed to the voice within you, and admit when you …
The human being is not born free but rather must earn his freedom. That is, to be free is more of a process than a destination, where every action or lack of action advances or retracts us from the goal of freedom. At birth, we are anything but free, as we are dominated and subjected …
No matter how long one lives, how much one achieves, life will always be too short. The eye never gets enough seeing; the body always desires more feeling; the soul constantly craves meaning; the heart always has more room for loving; the human always wants more living. While we’re here, let us be here instead …