I needed to find the meaning in all this. I found two rabbis who comforted me, one from the Talmud, and one from Ohio.
I love it when traditional Jewish philosophy meets R&B. Enjoy this week's installment of parsha playlist.
While borrowing lines from ancient liturgy, Zusha’s music is a blend of jazz, reggae, folk, ska, gypsy swing, and traditional Jewish soul.
You’re only psychologically tricking yourself into artificial empathy that will get you nowhere.
A poem:
"You pray for silkworms and butterflies.
Dance, and your twisting wrists chafe against shackles.
Sing, and grey moths escape your open throat."
Nostalgia calls,
Beaming from ancient hillsides,
A legacy lay dormant,
buried in the Judean soil
contoured crests and valleys
unfolding along a lush river of time;
Jewish music is a hard concept to grasp. It has no exact specification, no instrument that dictates its sound, no...
How come the people I love most trigger me to behave so bad? What oh-so-sensitive buttons are these relationships pushing?
I have yet to find an answer. But I want to try.
Describing the era immediately preceding the Big Bang and ensuing inception of life as we know it, the Kabbalists describe how this unified intelligence shattered, sending sparks of primordial light throughout what would soon become our entire universe. These luminescent shards of the ultimate source-code remain hidden away to this day, concealed in mundane aspects of our life, waiting for someone to come along and decode the message
In honor of her trip to Israel, and in her continued hopes of "never being jaded," Elizabeth shares her experience of spiritual fulfillment while sampling dried figs.
