There's something about the way Shabbat is Shabbat wherever I go.
No one had prepared me for the possibility that I might feel this way. I mean, this was supposed to be the happiest day of my life. And I didn't want to be there.
Hitbodedut (hisboididus, if you live in Brooklyn) is the practice of talking to G-d in your own words, also known as "personal prayer". The word means literally "self seclusion," but if you are like me (you don't have time or patience to sit in a room and talk to G-d) you can do it on the street.
How Ebin was reminded of his own spiritual yearnings by a girl in the hospital's children's ward.
Art gives us life, but it is not our life.
A stunning English rendering of the classic "Ka Ribbon," the Aramaic hymn beginning with the words “Kah Ribbon” which is sung at the shabbos tables of both Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
After suffering trauma, is it possible to reconnect with a God who allowed it to happen? I'm trying.
