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?
Toldot: Beyond Life And Death
My granddaughter just arrived from another world, and has brought us a message of hope. Despite the tragic losses and senseless pain, beyond the incomprehension of it all, life is born yet again.
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Netzavim: Existence Unplugged
Hemshech Tzaddik-Dalet dissects the very nature of existence, indeed, the very nature of reality itself. It’s central and most remarkable theme is that existence as we see and experience it is not real at all.
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Shoftim: Exposing Abuse
What are our obligations as parents, teachers, writers, website editors, or just plain adult citizens, when it comes to abuse?
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Child Abuse
Abuse is only possible because there is a climate, an environment, a breeding ground as it were, that allows abuse to fester and thrive. That breeding ground is the utter ignorance and lack of appreciation of the fundamental sanctity of sexuality.
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Vaetchanan: Comfort My People
Many tears indeed can be shed for our children whose lives are prematurely “hijacked” by the demons of abuse and drugs; bright futures suddenly aborted; robbed of their possibilities; injured psyches.
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Toldot: My Child
Every generation is part of an unbroken cycle of ‘fruit.’ It is through children that we create an eternal legacy, one which we are part of ourselves.
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Vayeirah: Nurturing
We begin our lives constantly in need of support. As we grow older our parents let go and we learn to walk on our own. Sometimes even adults need a lift.
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Noach: Raging Waters
Not only are we never given a challenge we cannot overcome, but from Parshat Noach we learn that every challenge brings us to an even greater height.
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Chukat-Balak: Wealth Question
The value and significance of questions, opinions and feedback; and the time-old question whether parents should bequeath their wealth to their children.
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Behalotcha: Education
Undoubtedly education of the young is the key to preserving spiritual identity. Today, nothing less than a revolution is necessary in our education systems.
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