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| A Walking Billboard |
| By Racheli Reckles |
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| Is a man that “loves” you for your looks really the man you want to be with? You’re so much better than that! You deserve someone who wants the "you" that shines from within... |
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| The First Haircut |
| By Tal Rotem |
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| Chassidim as well as many other Orthodox Jews wait until a male child reaches the age of three before he receives his first haircut, during a ceremony known as the Chalakeh... |
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| Reversing Low Self-Esteem |
| By Rivka Levy |
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| Low self-esteem stems from of being constantly criticized when we were younger, and made to feel that if we weren't perfect, no-one could love us or accept us... |
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| It's Not What We See! |
| By Rabbi Lazer Brody |
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| We sometimes give knee-jerk reactions to situations that seem to be bad. But in spiritual reality, it's all good. In this world, what you see is not necessarily what you get... |
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| Rather Sing than Suffer |
| By Rabbi Shalom Arush |
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| With spiritual awareness, we sing instead of suffer. Rather than building the pyramids as slaves, we sing all night long on Seder night... |
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| Upstairs/Downstairs |
| By Rick Eskenazi |
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| Is separate seating in synagogue archaic and irrelevant? Can separate seating really be regarded as non-egalitarian segregation that should be eliminated? |
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| Make Your Choice |
| By Yael Karni |
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| What I decide to have for breakfast doesn’t really fall under the category of free will, but whether it is kosher or not, and how I eat it, does... |
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| The Delicate Voice |
| By Dovber HaLevi |
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| True hearing requires emuna. Inside our minds there is noise. There is an internal voice weighing options and making subtle suggestions. In order to hear, we must be quiet... |
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| Divine Connections |
| By Yael Karni |
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| True spirituality then has to be based on one thing first and foremost: emunah. The belief that Hashem created me and everything else, that He interacts with me... |
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| Divine Revelation |
| By Yael Karni |
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| We’ve had moments of tremendous spiritual elevation, and we’ve endured the worst types of suffering. But even the suffering that Hashem sends us has a purpose... |
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| Divine Soul, Divine Body |
| By Yael Karni |
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| It’s almost obvious and yet we are bludgeoned into believing that the soul doesn’t exist, that there is just a body. So how can we derive evidence of a soul? |
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| Divine Letters |
| By Yael Karni |
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| Hebrew letters have numerical equivalents that are not random but have intrinsic meaning. The numerical equivalents of the Torah's words reveal the secrets of creation... |
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| Emuna and the Job Search |
| By Dovber HaLevi |
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| To serve Hashem with joy in the face of uncertainty takes our emuna to the next level. To tell Him that we are not afraid expresses our Trust in His handling of the world... |
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| Divine Illuminations |
| By Yael Karni |
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| What makes us uniquely human? Are we, as the scientific and atheistic world say, just accidental evolutionary creatures with no obvious purpose? |
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