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Twice a year, in a synagogue near you, we replay the Exodus: on Passover and on this coming Shabbat. This week, it’s time to prepare to escape your Egypt.
What’s your particular Egypt? For many of us, the bricks and mortar of our slavery are stress and anxiety. That’s why we're presenting you with an authentic Q&A from Tzvi Freeman that provides a remedy more powerful than any psychotropic to break you free of that slavery. As part of the regimen, we want you to take a full dose of Gentle Silence from Dovber Pinson, along with a brief lesson in existential exodus from the same Tzvi Freeman (read the Parshah essay for a fuller grasp). In an exquisite video short, Dov Greenberg will provide you a crucial strategy for escaping the processional caterpillar race of society.
Meanwhile, Malkie Silverfield will be dealing with any painful childhood experiences, while Sarah Chana Radcliffe will take care of parental trauma, and Chana Weisberg will help you liberate your child from his/her Egypt (no, you are not the Pharaoh).
Every exodus needs a destination, a.k.a. “home.” We’ve got a whole section on creating a home this week, including Why Marry?, and what books your home can’t be without.
The video and story sections are chock-full this week. Practically speaking, you can become an expert in Torah lifting (a.k.a. hagbah), heart walking, and reincarnation. Oh, and please, whether you’re a little kid or a grown-up one, please don’t laugh when watching Jono step on a rake in the dark.
Psychotropics are not enough. Anxiety can be overcome only with a deep and mighty sense of faith.
Imagine yourself walking into an upscale boutique where nothing is being played on the sound system—I guarantee that you will feel an awful eeriness.
You can hide it enough so it doesn’t embarrass you in public. But can you free yourself of your ego?
I try to get back to that place within me that reaches unceasingly for meaning. The heaviness tugs at me, warning me to pause, to rest, to give up . . .
It is my fervent wish that all people who had deprived childhoods shall be infused with courage, faith and a feeling of connectedness.
When a child pushes our buttons to “on,” we have to learn to push them back to “off.”
Do we dismiss our child’s issues as insignificant? Do we reassure him that this “little” incident will pass?
Who is Pharaoh and what does he represent? What is his “innermost essence”?
Surely saving the world should be a joint endeavor, and I am content with my small part of the glory.
The Jews are still slaves in Egypt, and now for the very first time ever they will hear a Torah lesson. And it's about . . . the moon?!
Your home is defined by its contents. Aside from those who live there, the most significant items are Torah books.
The easiest thing to do would be to get a divorce and follow one path through life, but Jews are notorious for their refusal to accept the easier solution.
What with this and that, my roommate and I both decided it was time to move on. We have till the end of the month. Where will we go?
“If I have any reward waiting for me in paradise,” said Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, “it’s yours.”
With tears in their eyes, they promised each other that whoever stays alive will take care of the other’s children.
The horse suddenly changed course and began pulling the musicians toward the cemetery . . .
“You lowly, despicable man!” thundered the Hungarian visitor. “What do you know! You obviously have no understanding of anything holy and spiritual!”
Within every love, there is fear: The fear of separation from that which you love.
A child fears separation from her parents, a lover from his beloved, the body fears separation from the soul, and the soul from its Source Above.
So what do you love? Look at your worries and you will know. If you seethe in worry over you...
