It's time to get happy: Mishe. Nichnas. Adar. Y'all ready for this?
Sometimes - a lot of times - I take myself waaaaaay to seriously. Here's a tiny peek at how I'm working to change that.
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.
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.
Elizabeth has a lot of things on her mind. Lots of little, tiny, lovely things.
The famous author, Leo Tolstoy, stops by Hevria for its first guest post. He answers the question we've all been wondering: what does it mean to be a Jew?
From Rabbis to community leaders to philanthropists, it seems we are enamored with outreach and the unaffiliated Jew. Yet, I ask myself: What about those that are already on the 'inside,' practicing Judaism? Are they getting the same care and opportunity? And whose responsibility are they?
The author takes his favorite philosophy idea and tries it out on the sharpest philosophical mind of his generation.
We have to delay going home. There waits responsibility. And sometimes the parents are not so perfect with that kind of thing.
My mother spent her teenage years trying to decide whether she was someone who deserved affection. She was determined that her children should never have to debate that issue. So she trained the voices in our minds.
