I spent a year with Chabad Hasidim in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. I exulted, starkly disagreed, and considered glorious possibilities—often in the same moment.
Rachel wants you to be free. Even if it's scary.
Sometimes it's a rainy, rainy day and nothing is going right.
She is a bottomless top-shelf gimlet.
She is built of bloody bruised knuckles.
We are earthbound for a reason:
to experience the holiness of creation.
My father would never come back. I never got to say goodbye. Was it all my fault?
While in the desert, Moses' periods of seclusion on the mountain were key to his progress as a leader and the transmission of The Torah. Like any introvert, only by entering into a safe, individual space could this have happened.
A short story about love and loyalty and depression.
I always look down to see the needle enter my arm, so that I can better understand the frailty of life. It stings a little as it goes in, but the pain is worth it.
