Of course there's meaning in the ceremony, but often the goal of sustained impact is not as easy as you might think. Teens are exposed...

Judaism's Awareness of the Body-Mind Connection Judaism offers an incredible teaching about how our minds and bodies work together, and...

We live in a tangible and physical world, and it is the very nature of our surroundings that creates automatic obstacles in connecting...

Our sages were always trying to find the shortest ways to describe complicated concepts. While there are 48 Ways to Wisdom (elucidated in...

Our tradition tells us that the sole purpose of Torah is for us to refine our character, and the way toward that end is through action,...

How tolerant are we of our own mistakes? Do we forgive others more easily than we forgive ourselves? Should we hold ourselves in contempt...

Our days are rather filled "up" with day-to-day undertakings, and sometimes we barely get in all the activities we schedule. So where and...

This year, I am involving myself more personally and seriously than ever before in the counting of the Omer, the period of time between...

Hebrew is full of secrets, embedded with layers and layers of meaning, woven from the thread of reality as Judaism sees it. I happened on...

Happy. It's often a response [I just want them to be happy] to the question "What do you want for your children?" Being happy is what our...

Aren't I the only one here? What's this business about me, a soul and all this spirituality stuff? There's a lot of talk about soul (not...

In the times of Noah, there was total lawlessness in the world. Just 10 generations (according to tradition) after Adam, the world is in...

(Posted originally on “Reclaiming Judaism”) This blog has become an intimate part of my life. I began writing it in 2011 as part of a...

If you would have asked me what words come to mind when I think about Yom Kippur, the word joy would never have made the top ten list....

This is a new experience for me, responding to a reader request! After reading a post on Gratitude, I was asked to write about Love....

“..the more enamored we are of our selves, the more fixed we are in our own ‘realities’, limiting the possibilities of our awareness.”...

Mitzvah. Good deed? Commandment? You might be most familiar with the word mitzvah as it appears in Bar or Bat Mitzvah which is usually...

I read something from an unlikely source that struck my deepest core as a Jew, and came to a full stop at a passage from the first...

At different times in my life, Jewish educators would often prompt seminar audiences to describe and prioritize their Jewish identity....

Here’s what I learned about engaging lay people from an Evangelical minister during a holiday dinner party: a faith community’s goals...