What Is Our Obligation to Homeless People?
You pass a homeless person on the street and you put a coin in his or her cup. Is that a demonstration of empathy, or should you do more?
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3 Inspirational Thoughts to Start Your Day Right
Any job you do, even if it is an motivation-deadening cubicle hell, can and should be a vehicle for who you are.
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Why Giving Away Money Is Difficult
Money is called “soul-energy” and you can learn to harness that energy in your life.
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How To Create An Oasis In Your Life
One of the healthiest things you can do to find balance and harmony is to build a spiritual oasis in your life. The following suggestions can help you to grow solid spiritual roots — on a daily basis, at home — that you can always return to.
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The Only Thing That Lives On Forever
It’s not your accomplishments at work. It’s not your house or bank account. It’s the impact of what you gave to the world.
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Purim: Joy on Demand?
Purim is a day of joyous abandon that transcends conventional boundaries. It is a day when a window opens up that allows us deep inside of ourselves.
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Talking Money With Kids
How and when should you talk about money with your children? Rabbi Jacobson offers a spiritually-sound answer.
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The Cost of Light
Giving, whether physical or spiritual, carries a “price”. We find an example of such spiritual descent in Moses’ bestowal of the leadership upon Joshua.
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Toldot: Mixing G-d and Politics
A response to the thousands of emails written about the previous essay which discussed the notions of “conservative” and “liberal” belief in America…
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Cause and Effect
The Talmud teaches that the spiritual unity represented by the half-shekel laws precedes the physical differences of cross-breeding laws.
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