Career; Earning a Living

“How do you know that your livelihood is in front of you,” asked Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, “and you are running to catch up with it? Maybe it is behind you, and you are actually running further away from it!”

If life is full of meaning, why am I spending it hustling other people for their money?

The phrase "crushing labor" appears repeatedly in the Torah's account of the Egyptian exile and enslavement, in the text of the Haggadah, and in the symbolism of the seder observances. What is crushing labor?

A river of life flows through the inner worlds, emerging from there into your own, carrying with it all your needs. You need to know about that river, for it carries upstream as well. When you celebrate that river with a blessing for your food, out loud ...

The common conception of how the system works is faulty. People see a career as "making a living." But a career doesn't "make" anything

Nowadays, it seems that success comes first, prison only later. But with true success, it works the other way around. In the Torah portion of Vayeishev we read of Joseph’s exploits. Sold into slavery by his brothers, he winds up enslaved to Potiphar, “a ...

America has spawned many wonderful myths. The most wonderful thing about these myths is that they can be made true. There is, however, one American myth that is very dangerous, particularly for us Jews

The Baal Shem Tov led the young Talmudist to the window. A water-carrier was passing by, with a pole across his back and a pail of water tied at each end. “Come, let’s go speak with him,” said the chassidic master.

Our source of sustenance is neither regular nor predictable. It does not well up from a channel grooved in the earth, nor is it treaded up from a hole in the ground. Our eyes are forever trained upward, in hope and expectation, and in faith...

“Do you own anything of value?” asked the rebbe. “Just my two horses,” replied the wagon-driver. “In that case,” said the rebbe, “you’ll have one for Purim, and the second for Passover.”