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Chaya Shuchat |
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Chaya Shuchat is the author of A Diamond a Day, an adaptation of the chassidic classic Hayom Yom for children, as well as many articles on the interface between Chassidism and contemporary life. She is a pediatric nurse practitioner with a master’s degree in nursing from Columbia University.
Miriam shows us how to wait. With bitterness over our suffering but not with despair.
A virtuous person thinks in terms of duties and responsibilities. What is my role? What is my obligation? But a leader thinks in terms of needs. What are the needs of this person? This organization? This population?
This instinct to look after others is ingrained in us from the Torah itself.
We equate money with security, success, power, comfort or self-esteem. It follows then that when we lack money, it feels like we lack everything that makes life worthwhile and meaningful.
When G‑d created the world, He used four basic building blocks: Fire, air, water and earth. Sefer Yetzirah, Ch. 3 Some have postulated that these building blocks correspond to the four states of matter: solid, liquid, gas and pure energy. Others hypothesi...
Take every bit of oppression and suffering and elevate it, make it holy
Why do negative emotions generate so much more energy than positive ones?
5 Keys to Changing Your Nature
For all our efforts, bad habits are more easily formed than broken.
Having as many options as we do does not contribute to our peace of mind or tranquility.
Because faith is transcendent, it takes effort to integrate it within ourselves.
How do we go about reconciling the irreconcilable and solving the essential riddle of creation?
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