Insights: My Body and I: A Fasting Meditation By Aron Moss Here I am sitting in synagogue on the holiest day of the year, and all I can do is hallucinate about paprika chicken and mashed potatoes
Story: Two Groschen From the Chassidic Masters "I'm sorry," he said to the woman, "but these are the rules. Two groschen per name..."
Let's Go For Coffee: A Writer's Confession By Naftali Silberberg At birth, we are given a fresh blank piece of paper and the mandate to write on it whatever we wish
Insights: How to Change the Past By Yanki Tauber Can we really change what was done? How does teshuvah work, practically?
We need a perpetual reminder that whatever faults we have, they lie only at the periphery, in the very outer garments of the soul which are touched by the ego, the persona and the world in which they are enclosed. The core, however, remains always pure and whole.
Our job then is not so much to repair and renovate as it is to unleash that inner essence. To allow it free passage to the outside, so it may take charge of our thoughts, our words and all that we do.... [Continue]