Loneliness is on the rise, at all levels, and perhaps for good reason. Maybe there is a way to capitalize on it.
Learn why sharing what we hate is spiritual... and funny.
The truth is that everything I ever wanted to happen to me at this point in my life has happened and much, much more. I’m very lucky that I get to say that with full honesty. That realization- that life is amazing- is paralyzing.
More than a few people on their way out or fully out of the fold have asked me how I could choose Chabad as a way of life. "You had every choice in the world. WHY would you choose this? WHY would anyone choose this?" I am going to answer that question as earnestly as possible through this imaginary conversation between someone who is on his or her way out and me. I'm not trying to answer for every chozer/chozeret b'teshuvah -- these are my answers.
This time of year calls for reduced joy, but I can't stop listening to the classics.
"A person should only learn Torah from a place her heart is seeking." (BT AZ 19a)
Living in a world where people are constantly being called out for hypocrisies, do we even really know what it means to be authentic?
To attend The Camping Trip for the second year in a row, but this time as performer--I felt like a ten year old girl with a bag full of jelly beans.
MaNishtana returns in all his uncomfortable glory. Like an awkward phoenix rising from the ashes of a cremation urn someone knocked over at a family function.
