Rachel's assignment? To cover the topic, “Why don’t we talk about Gd enough?”
Am I the only one that feels this way?
A discussion with the creator of the Misaviv Hebrew Circle Calendar.
We were once revolutionaries. But somewhere along the road, we became conformists. Here's why and what we can do to change the world in the way we hoped.
I don't learn or grow from rejection. Can I reject rejection entirely? Do I want to?
For so many years I defined myself by standing out, by being iconoclastic. How did I become a person who wants to look like everyone else?
A story about a creator trying to do his best to understand himself.
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 regret those words as soon as I think them. But it’s true.
