Insights

Call it the green-eyed monster. Call it spite, pettiness, insecurity. It's not a very satisfying way to live. How does one rid oneself of envy?

The message is clear: dealing with and changing negative behavior is extremely difficult. But why does discipline and self control need so much strength?

As I sunk into the driver's seat on my commute home, I began my daily personal prayer to G‑d and opened, rather ungratefully, with my list of grievances about how I had survived yet another stressful day...

Ben Azzai would say: Run to pursue a minor mitzvah, and flee from a transgression. For a mitzvah brings another mitzvah, and a transgression brings another transgression...

The world, the sages tell us, is made of pleasure. Pleasure condenses and contracts and becomes Wisdom. Wisdom condenses further and becomes Understanding...