Elizabeth describes the beauty of watching Jewish young adults on Birthright connect with their Judaism in a visceral, visionary moment.
Some people are just scary and terrifying and we should never, ever, ever try to talk to them. That is not at all what this post is about.
I learn more from interactions with others than I ever have from any college course.
When we see creativity from the Creator's perspective, then any concept of "failure" completely falls apart.
I arrived in Tel Aviv 10 minutes after the terror attack.
I felt something boil up inside me. I simply could not take it anymore. I interrupted him, “Stop telling me what not to do and tell me what TO do!!”
An astonishing fire blazes within. You must spill forth this light, or be consumed from inside. This is the sacred act of spark extraction. This is returning to the knowing in your bones.
With the contemporary lack of village communal support, has the modern day husband become too needy for his wife to handle?
Sometimes it's just so good to go to the bathroom. Not the act itself, but the act of leaving behind the world and making yourself alone.
Spending the summer with my grandmother, who was beyond her time, made me reflect upon my own.