I had only published a handful controversial articles, but the ones I had published seemed to elicit such huge and negative responses that I wanted out.
There's something outrageous about typical schools. Anyone whose learning style strays from the standard expectations is basically in a prison meant for other kinds of minds.
My rabbi challenged me to write my theology in 100 words. This is both harder and easier than it sounds. I highly recommend the effort.
Some people, despite their youth, possess old souls. Others, despite their age, posses young ones. My grandmother is the queen of the latter.
Sometimes - a lot of times - I take myself waaaaaay to seriously. Here's a tiny peek at how I'm working to change that.
Chaya's pursuit of the Holy Grail of pregnancy - an ecstatic birth.
While I had begun to figure out my Judaism in college, Rick had been redeveloping his own Christian faith. I met my wife through this involvement, and now Rick had met his as well.
My youngest brother always had a spacial place in my heart. I watched him grow through years of yeshiva and then, little by little, as his relationship with Orthodox Judaism shifted and morphed into something that belongs to only him and G-d.
At a certain age, the mask comes off. Maybe we stop caring what every single person thinks of us or...
At 25 I'd done enough stupid things to fill a book, but I hadn't quite earned the wisdom to raise them above the level of stupid things.
