Neshama Learns about Hope
Our eight year old Neshama is an angel. She’s playful, spiritual, insightful and a tomboy. She’s also dyslexic. This year has been beyond hard for her. Being left back in first grade means that the kids in her class are a year younger than her. That’s hard. and even with that reading hasn’t […]
Video – Insane! Part 2 “Holy Feminine Energy”
Can wearing a tichel improve your relationship? Jessie shares her experience with covering her hair.
We’re in Good Hands!
I wrote this sometime last year. It’s amazing and astonishing to see how different our life looks now. We truly are on the next chapter. Nothing is too hard for G-d! Interestingly enough, I submitted this to two publications and both (who have published my writing before) turned it down. That was funny […]
Video:Love – Up Close
What stood out for me most,in this magnificent video was the images of Mae Toi playing with her children, being with her children. It literally didn’t matter what she was doing, even swatting one of the kids hands away. She was with them. They saw her love. When I got married, I was really young. And I […]
The Heartbeat of a Mezuza
My friend Rachel Zamoiski fell in love with a Mezuza case 2 years ago in Israel. She bought it then, and its been sitting in her house since. This year for her father’s yartzheit, Rachel decided to take on a Mitzvah in his merit. So we went to the Jewish book store and […]
Validation
Here’s a dose of something we all need from time to time. Validation. Has this ever happened to you? Someone takes a photo of you and when you look at it you recoil as you notice your messy house in the background? That happens to me all the time. Or how about this. You […]
Love and Loss OR Bitter Hearts and Better Hearts
Has anyone out there experienced loss? This one’s for you [written when my heart was broken] Not all gifts are meant to last occasionally, a tree will bear some fruit, then stagnate with no continuity And then the fruit – and not the tree in small delicious bites is the true […]
Wanted: Passionate Elephants!! – video
Wow! This is a great story! Horton is chased to the ends of the earth, shamed, exhausted and beaten – and he does it all for the little speck – of – dust- city on the clover. Now that’s an elephant with passion! But noone gets it. He looks so strange Nothing he says can […]
1,000’s of People Didn’t Wake up Today!
I learned a while ago about hisbodidus, spending time in personal prayer with G-d. And for the longest time I would take a daily meditative walk. I walked every day. I can’t stand the snow, and I can’t stand the cold but the winter was the best. I would spend the first half of the […]
Only One You
A few months ago, I was sitting on the couch with my older sister, Chana Ita, and she says “Rif, you’re here” and she gestures with her hands, kind of belly level. “But you could be here” and she gestures about a foot higher. What the heck did she mean? I felt […]