Va'etchanan

There are times when your love for another is so strong that it supersedes even your greatest dreams and aspirations.

What is it about the Shema Yisroel prayer that has inspired so many through the most trying of times and has provided such meaning and purpose to help us survive even the most despairing circumstances?

They act so perfectly pious and ultra-religious. But once you get to know them, you realize that their ideals are downright distortions.

Here's an experiment to try the next time you meet someone—it could be an annoying telemarketer over the phone or a neighbor in the local grocery store...

The two enlarged letters in the Shema reveal the mission of the Jewish people and the fusion of faith and knowledge.

This weekly study packet is part of theJewishwoman.org “Be a Leader” initiative. Print it out and learn it with your study group.

While we hope that someone, somewhere, takes notice whenever we “do the right thing,” as long as we are driven by the need for that external recognition, we are vulnerable and can be inconsistent.

When G-d does make demands of me, they tend to be in trivial areas—but areas that hit me where it counts.

To be an idealist you cannot consider the resistance that you may encounter while implementing your dreams. Pure idealism follows the dictates of truth alone. On the other hand, without realistic thinking my dreams would stay in the world of fantasy...