Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah

In contrast to such a luminous month, Tishrei is followed by the month of Cheshvan, a month where the soul feels like it is permanently seeing behind darkened sunglasses. How should the soul cope with the grind of daily life, without the spiritual heights...

The sukkah is a temporary dwelling. But that dosen’t mean the experience is limited to one week.

That diffident child peering through the fence at her neighbors never dreamed that when she grew up, she would one day have the joy of sitting in her own sukkah year after year.

Throughout your life, you will have many missions. What have you completed, and what is there to begin at this new stage of life?

We went camping this past summer, and the preparations for it took a lot of work. The buying, borrowing, planning; asking for advice on how to do it and what to do. My husband and I packed in two days what some might pack in two weeks. It was our first ti...

thank the Byrds for their introduction to a lesson in Kohelet, Ecclesiastes.

Over the last many months, so many of the things that we thought we needed to connect to G‑d and spirituality haven’t been possible.

The table was crowded with people I wouldn’t expect to see at a Chassidic gathering.

We depend on our touchstones: psychological security, a stable income, protection from crime. Clothing, food, warm shelter