Home & Family
After many hours of looking for food, a bird returns to its nest, taking comfort in its warmth and safety. Your home and family are your nest.
Your home & family are the hub around which everything evolves . But what does it take to build a healthy home, and a harmonious family? What are the meaningful elements? What is the role of parents? And what of children? We hire architects and contractors to design and build beautiful physical structures. How do we design and build beautiful spiritual structures? What can I do to truly feel at home, or to enhance the home I have already built?
Respectful Honesty, Even When it Hurts
Balancing sensitivity, respect, and blunt honesty, is not simple, but it is important and can be done.
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Nine Ways To Raise A Moral Baby
My biggest priority as a new mom is to raise my baby with personal dignity and respect for others. It translates to teaching my baby morals from day one.
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Family Loyalty
A discussion of family loyalty illustrates the idea of forgiveness in Judaism. A story of the Seer of Lublin.
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Chayei Sarah: The First Jewish Mother
This week’s Torah portion is about the first Jewish mother, Sarah: The embodiment of an Aishet Chayil.
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Lighting Instructions
The menorah represents man’s potential to “kindle lamps”: to illuminate within his own self, in his fellow man & in the material resources at his disposal.
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The Young and the Fearless
Even when the elders’ belief is clouded the children’s faith can carry us through difficult times.
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The Rebbe on the ’60s
A freely-translated excerpt from a letter the Rebbe wrote in the summer of 1963 to a leading American Rabbi on the teshuva movement especially among youth.
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Rebellious Youth
Today’s children are rising up against their elders, but in a positive way.
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Life in the River
Thirty-four hundred years after Egyptian slavery, Jewish children are still being forced into the Nile, a material lifestyle.
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Father and Son
Despite the fact that they embodied two very different approaches to life, Isaac sensed that everything he is and has derives from Abraham, while Abraham saw in Isaac the fulfillment and realization of his deepest self.
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