Three Weeks, The

She has a sign on her wall, much like The Writing on Wall saying (as she’s praying): This too shall pass

As things seemed to go from bad to worse, I pushed my chair away from the desk and forced myself to take a few breaths. I had to do something, or I knew I was doomed to have my day continue its downspin . . .

My personal mourning mingles with the mourning of centuries, with the loss of our Temple, a physical house in which to receive the presence of G‑d. Grief layers upon grief...

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Mi Keamcha Yisroel, “Who is like your People, the Nation of Israel!”

Despite their connection with energies of destruction, these three weeks are, on a deeper level, permeated with powerfully positive spiritual influences as well.

The other night it hit me—there is a difference between pain and anguish.

Talk about Jewish guilt. It is said that if we don’t witness the rebuilding of the Holy Temple in our lifetime, it’s as if we witness its destruction. If that’s not difficult enough, the key to rebuilding is simple to articulate but challenging to do: to ...

I’m sitting in the Jerusalem Pizza restaurant, housed in the suburban Detroit JCC, on a hot and humid Monday afternoon, enjoying a lunch with my elderly father and youngest daughters, newly fourteen year-old twins. Dad’s eyes looked above my shoulder at t...

The Kabbalah of the Three Weeks: a buried seed of goodness, a 21-day almond wood, walls that protect and walls that imprison, the pregnant Tet, and a cosmic birth that puts history to rights.