Category Archives: blessings

Hold The Elevator! Vayeitzei

You’re running late for an interview. You’ve navigated traffic, finally found a parking spot and now you’re sprinting into the building. You cry out, “Hold the elevator!” A kind soul holds open the door and promptly asks “up or down?” And just for a second, a sneaky-see-the-bigger-vision-you-have-a-dream second, you say “going up, please.” Because, forContinue reading “Hold The Elevator! Vayeitzei”

Food For Thought; Soup For The Soul… Toldot

Esau said to Jacob, “Pour me some of that red stuff for I am exhausted.”Jacob said, “Sell your birthright to me.”Esau said, “I am going to die, so of what use to me is a birthright?” Genesis 25:30-32 Why would Esau offer up his birthright, something worth an insurmountable amount monetarily and spiritually, for aContinue reading “Food For Thought; Soup For The Soul… Toldot“

To Be Whole, You Need To Be Broken

A Hasidic master, Sfat Emet, writes during Sukkot “this is wholeness: a person with a broken heart… and in every place that G-d dwells, there is wholeness.” Wholeness is a person with a broken heart. Broken equals whole. What? This is how I understand it. A person whose heart is not broken, if even someContinue reading “To Be Whole, You Need To Be Broken”

The Mitzvah Of Uplifting The Inner Eeyore

I am unashamedly a Winnie the Pooh fan. This week, though, I want to focus on Eeyore. We all have a little Eeyore in us, don’t we? Jews, perhaps, could be considered a collective Eeyore. Think about it. We’re supposed to be eternally melancholy, burdened with years upon years of oppression. We always have aContinue reading “The Mitzvah Of Uplifting The Inner Eeyore“