Excuses

What is the difference between successful people and those that aren’t successful at trying those same things? The name of the month preceding the Jewish New Year contains a clue.

Whenever it came to trying to lose weight, my classic answer was always, “I simply have no willpower.” And until today, I believed it to be the case...

Rabbi, I appreciate your invitation to join your classes, but I just don’t have time in my life for spirituality right now . . .

I would like to be an intellectually honest spiritual seeker, a warm and loving and dynamic wife and mother, a supportive friend; but at the end of the day I look in the mirror and see an annoyed and tired dishrag, and all I want to do is have a cup of co...

If the Torah's description of Noah's righteousness can be understood both ways, why do the sages propose a negative interpretation?

Why do dictators habitually schedule rigged elections? Why not just abolish them? Is there anyone – within that country or internationally – who believes that these election results express the will of the people?

It is difficult to feel loved, or believe the sentence "I love you" when it's heard from someone who may not be lucid, or will not be lucid in an hour or two...

What’s the difference between opting out and giving up? Why do I think it was okay for me to abandon the ski slope at forty-five while I find it terribly sad that my bachelor brother-in-law may, at the same age, decide it’s time to stop searching for a wi...

I feel very little love left for my husband, if at all, and not too much respect. He is so terrified to fail that he cannot bring himself to try most things that people attempt to do in life. I only stay because of my children...

There are many important lessons from the story of "the Second Passover," such as there are always second chances in life, or that G-d sometimes waits to see if we really want something badly enough to demand it and only then does He give it to us. But I'...