History shall repeat itself, said Rabbi DovBer of Mezeritch, but with one significant difference. Some twenty-seven hundred and thirty years ago, one...
Category - Inspiration
I wrote this to a young Jew who told me he was on his way to India: Once there was a king whose palace had been ransacked by the wild hordes. For the...
For many years, Rabbi Zeev Kitzes, one of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov’s senior disciples, yearned to travel to the Holy Land. Finally, the long...
On a recent excursion into Los Angeles I was mesmerized by a stunning sight in the nighttime sky. (Fortunately, I was not the driver!) There were...
Chassidic teaching differentiates between two types of sorrow: merirut, a constructive grief, and atzvut, a destructive grief. Merirut is the...
distraught young woman came to Rabbi Israel, the Maggid of Kozhnitz. “Rebbe, help me,” she said. “My husband has deserted me...
Two people were marveling at the height and design of the Twin Towers. But one’s look seemed deeper than the other, as if peering through the...
The are two states of existence, two ways to be. You can be striving, or at rest. Fighting, or at peace. Estranged, or betrothed. Yearning, or...
One bright, sunny afternoon, I sat watching my two children playing a lively game of hide and seek. My younger daughter Shira was the first to be the...
If you ask someone coming out of church on a Sunday, “Do you believe in G-d?” the worshipper is shocked. “What type of question is...