Bittul (Selflessness)

It’s not that I support this sneaker-clad, pink-sweatshirt-sporting, exuberant young girl in a despotic vision of absolute control. And it’s not only that I am thinking: Yes, reach for the stars, dream big. It’s just that her claim is simply true . . .

It could no longer be avoided. Despite my techno-phobia, the time had come for me to learn a new computer program for my work. "Chana, I'll walk you through the tutorial first thing tomorrow morning," the chabad.org technical director confirmed our cyber ...

Everyone can become a “mother.” What comes naturally to the female half of creation can be learned and assimilated by all, and not only in giving birth to children, but in every one of life’s endeavors.

I would describe myself as a Chassidic feminist. The two terms are not mutually exclusive, though their combination is not without tension...

Motherhood is intense. It’s continuous. It evolves and adapts and changes all the time.

It is very unlike me to sit down and write something like this, and yet, I feel that I have an obligation to do so. I am a quiet person, who lives a quiet life, and until about a year ago there was nothing newsworthy or interesting about myself or my five...

When G-d created Adam, at the moment Adam opened his eyes, what was his psychological profile? He had no Oedipus complex because he had no mother. He didn't have a birth trauma, because he wasn't born. He had no sibling rivalry... What was this man like?

Many years ago I learned about the quality of bittul, which usually translates into words like “self-nullification,” “self-abnegation,” “humility,” words that didn’t even sound very Jewish to my untrained ear.