Guest Columnists

It is natural and normal to experience anxiety and fear. The Chassidic masters provide a formula for exchanging it for positive, uplifting thoughts.

I had always felt like a fraud in a church, quite torn, but didn’t know how to begin to live life as a Jew. So I slogged along, well into middle age, not knowing where to begin.

Laws protect our safety, ensure rights, resolve conflicts and bind us as a society. Without the underpinning of both righteousness and mercy, however, the resulting society we could create would be neither just nor holy.

We spend our youth building up cynicism, and then we are suddenly expected to make all those big life changes, like marriage and kids, that require faith in our fellow human beings, not to mention in ourselves . . .

When you come to think of it, a child needs the very same things a tree does in order to grow: "earth," "water," "sun" and "air"

We know how to keep the burglars, terrorists and spammers out. Ironically, however, we still remain vulnerable to trespass of a different kind...

The Torah cautions us that the danger of bribery is not merely a possibility, nor even a probability. It is an automatic effect. We are all judges, all of the time . . .

Simply put—you want to fix what you broke? The first step is to get “tamim.” But what does “tamim” mean?

The cities of refuge were only for those who killed accidentally, not knowing the consequences of their actions.

In Hebrew, the word tzedek, which means “justice,” also means “righteousness.” Perhaps the dual use of the word “justice” means that we cannot pursue “justice” without also being “righteous.”

Man is compared to a tree. We must produce fruits with seeds for new trees and new fruits. This will cause all of creation to blossom.

Why would Maimonides go to such extraordinary lengths to list all the Biblical commandments and then fall entirely silent when it comes to the Rabbinic ones?

The ancient Greeks were fascinated with the human body, glorifying it and marveling at its finesse and power.

Most of us safeguard our computers from contracting harmful viruses, but are we as concerned about our own spiritual contamination?