Prayer
To pray is not to beg. To pray is to interweave with the Creator in high frequency conversations.
Talk is cheap. Well, it depends to whom you talk. Prayer is invaluable because you are talking to a Higher Reality that is priceless. Prayer is part conversation, part acknowledgment, part realization, part meditation, and part actualization. Prayer induces swaying the same way flame ignition induces flickering. Prayer is a ladder, embedded in earth, touching heaven. The entire molecular structure of existence hinges upon this ladder. It is here that the rungs of the world are righted.
Behaalotecha: Mitchum
Parshat Behaalotcho discusses kindling the menorah that the flames rise on their own: recognizing G-d in our own lives by saying “im yirtzeh Hashem”.
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Shelach: Ronald Reagan
Learning from President Ronald Reagan & the sin of the spies in Parshat Shelach: hope & confidence breeds confidence; self-doubt & fear demoralizes & taints
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Vayeirah : The Mission Continues
The topics discussed include G-d’s plans “behind the curtain,” the power of prayer, and each individual’s mission in this world.
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Father: I Will Ask You
Rabbi Jacobson tells a story about his own Passover growing up, intertwined with a discussion about the four questions and the experience of life.
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Yom Kippur: The Kittel
Comforts and freedom often lead to complacency, but Yom Kippur reminds us simultaneously of our troubles and our triumphs, encouraging us to reflect on the mysterious cycle of life.
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Spiritual Awakening and My Father’s Siddur
This is a personal story of a Jewish woman’s spiritual awakening. It is heartwarming, and a tale of reconnecting to older generations. A story of teshuvah.
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Loneliness: A Personal Essay
A personal essay on the power of prayer to fight loneliness. Learn to eliminate your loneliness through spiritual prayer.
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Matot: What Can I Do About the Situation in Israel?
Let us create a true revolution. Let us reconnect to our Divine mission. Let us move heaven and earth with our actions. We have been promised that when we do, we will save the universe – literally.
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A Day in the Life of a Jew
As Jews, however, we are also guided by a more subtle calendar, a more spiritual clock: the calendar and clock of history. As Jews, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are as central to our concept of morning, noon and evening as the sun’s arc across the sky; Adam, Moses and King David mark our year as prominently as the turning of the seasons; and the twelve sons of Jacob, progenitors of the twelve tribes of Israel, are as basic to our daily schedule as the twelve numerals etched on our clock-face or the twelve spiral-bound pages hanging on our wall.
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Fire: A Narrative by Rabbi Pinchas Reizes of Shklov
Rabbi Pinchas Reizes of Shklov tells a story of a miracle on Simchat Torah.
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