"Please let me write something worthy, something weighty, or winged....or whatever You want...just bring it! Because we need it...bad, G-d!"
Who are "my people"?
My name is Elad, and I’m proud to announce the creation of Hevria, a project I have contemplated since practically the moment I started blogging.
As my soul began to shift into 58th Century consciousness, I became imbued with a deeper awareness and confidence in my life calling.
I didn’t bring it up with him directly, but I spoke to others about my concerns about his beard. The lack thereof. I was afraid that it meant that he accepted the army’s dress standards over our religious ones, allowing a foreign body to dictate his religious choices. My point of reference for that was my having given up playing music on Shabbos, despite that being antithetical to the standards of practicing and performing in the music world. Did that therefore mean that we didn’t share some important values, ones that would affect our relationship in the long term?
I didn't care.That elusive, expected Potential was for prospectors and seekers of future gratification.
That’s me: a death-obsessed, fearful, life-loving, food-savoring soul who can barely function in this space-filled world. Somehow, I manage to have great adventures.
I was recently asked, "Sal, what kind of Jew are you?" It was not a rhetorical question.
On December 28th, 1895 the Lumiere Brothers famously exhibited motion pictures to a paying audience for the first time. They...
I guess in many ways my life was splattered by this intense desire to save the underdog.














