Tu B'Av is the Silent Beatle of Jewish holidays. It’s the Bermuda Triangle’d holiday that just up and disappeared. Here's how to get it back.
If it seems like everything's shattering, that's because it is.
And how now the world is completely consumed with Pokémon. But let me tell you why this is not a passing trend. Let me explain to you why this is everything... at least to me.
“G-d needs us to believe in Him,” Rev. Vince extols us, “just like you need someone to believe in you.”
This world's logistics overwhelm me. Appointments, lunch dates: aaaah! But usually, I get by. Me being me, it all feels kind of mystical.
This is the ultimate 1992 bat mitzvah party mix. I dare you not to dance.
Somewhere in a midrash it describes how during the plague of darkness the darkness was so thick that the Egyptians were unable to move around. That’s how I feel, spiritually. I feel like the darkness is so thick that I cannot move an inch.
The old adage goes, “You can never go home again”. So when I've spent so much time on the road and finally walk through that door once again, what am I returning to, exactly?
There seems to be some heavy congestion between our heads and hearts.
I remember a year ago when you were there for me, holding on in the same way and telling me that I was so beautiful. Now I understand.