Rabbi’s Blog
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Parshat Shelach – The Procrastination Doom Loop
June 24, 2022
Dear Friends, Do you recognize any of these excuses? If I take a nap now, I’ll have more focus later. If I eat this cake now, that’ll be my cheat […]
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Parshat Behalotecha – It’s Deep!
June 17, 2022
Dear Friends, In this week’s Parsha, we read: “We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt free of charge, the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic” (Bamidbar 11:5). The […]
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Parshat Nasso – “Drink Coca Cola”
June 10, 2022
Dear Friends, One of the remarkable things that the human mind is capable of doing is having the ability to “ingest” information and run with it. By looking at an […]
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Parshat Bamidbar / Shavuot – Active listening
June 3, 2022
Dear Friends, In 1957, Carl Rogers introduced the world to the concept of “active listening.” Active listening shifts the focus on listening to the speaker and responding so that the […]
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Parshat Bechukotai – Are we reading less or more?
May 27, 2022
Dear Friends, Often on zoom, I get comments about the number of books that line my dining room shelves they see in the background of my screen. It piqued my […]
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Parshat Behar – Make it Count
May 20, 2022
Dear Friends, In Israel, even the most simplistic and mundane things are sure to be a unique experience. For example, for most of us living outside of Israel, when posing […]