WRITINGS

In Navy SEAL training, there is a drown-proofing test in which the trainees are bound by their hands and feet and must refrain from...

To feel alive is to be curious, to be exploring and reaching and growing. A good life, an evolved and meaningful life, is lived as a...

In Mesillat Yesharim , The Path of the Just, one of the most famous and premier works on spiritual development, the author gives us step...

They flow through our minds as a stream trickling over rocks in a river, continuously. Even in our dreams. Our minds are a great gift, we...

When we think of silence, it is something often overshadowed in a world dominated by noise. In our own lives we embrace silence for...

In a world fraught with background noise, Jews are told to stay silent. In a world filled with bright lights, Jews must focus on their...

A wife desperate to be a mother, Chana pleads with G-d to bless her with a child. Her husband, Elkana, already a father from his second...

When I hear the word “imagination” my mind immediately takes me to Willy Wonka as he sings “come with me and you’ll be in a world of pure...

I woke up this morning at 3:00 am, my mind jumpy and unsettled. Nothing unusual there. As a woman of a certain age, I have grown...

A couple of years ago I made a small bar mitzvah in my home, celebrating with close family and friends. A few special people offered to...

She’s born with incomparable beauty and a closeness with G-d few others can claim. Her name, the most poignant insight into who she is,...

Light, Goodness. Expansiveness.  A contraction.  Confusion, nothingness. A thought, a reality. A word, an existence. A gathering, a...