Shorts
Burial: Truth Refuted
The mystical meaning of Jewish burial customs. Burial is the ultimate kindness to another person. A kindness done to the dead is a true kindness, for one does not expect a favor in return.
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The Importance of Home and Family
When a family shares principles and values, they grow together. The home and family become a foundation for the family’s shared sense of purpose. The ultimate beauty in a home is its emotional and spiritual warmth. There are many ways to beautify your home spiritually.
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Spiritual Parenting
Parents must understand the magnitude of their many responsibilities. Building a true home is a job to be taken seriously — more seriously than the job we go to each day to earn a living. After all, there are many opportunities to make a living, but only one opportunity to build a healthy home.
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How to See Your Child in a More Meaningful Way
Look at the child intently and realize: God has given you this gift to nurture and care for, to teach good habits and the difference between right and wrong. Your attitude toward this child and the sensibilities you impart will be crucial to how his life develops and how he influences others. Parenting tips.
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The Candle of G-d
The candle of G-d is the soul of man. A charming story about that quote.
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Food & Our Relationship with G-d
The Talmud points to the relationship between the soul and the body as a model for the nature of G-d’s relationship with the world. The soul cannot be perceived by the senses, yet its presence and effect is keenly felt in every part of the body; so too, G-d, though He transcends our reality and is utterly beyond its perception, vitalizes the entirety of creation and is fully present in its every nook and cranny. Food is the glue that keeps soul and body together, sustaining the embodiment of the spirit within its material shell.
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The Key to Happiness
To be a happy, wholesome and healthy person, your body and soul must work in perfect harmony. This means uniting the body and soul.
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Would You Like to Judge Yourself?
The only power on earth or heaven that can judge man is man himself.
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Good Grief
Chassidic teaching differentiates between two types of sorrow: merirus, a constructive grief, and atzvus, a destructive grief. The first is active, the second—passive. The first one weeps, the second’s eyes are dry and blank.
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What is Pain?
What is the purpose of pain? Why do good people suffer? Are there any benefits to pain? How can we alleviate our pain?
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