Book Highlights

Ben Bag Bag said, “Turn and turn about in it [the Torah] for everything is in it; and within it you shall look, and grow old and gray over it, and not stir from it; for there is no better

Four entered the orchard: Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Elisha and Ben Azzai and Ben Zoma. Ben Zoma gazed and died, Rabbi Elisha cut down the plantings, Ben Azzai gazed and was harmed. Only Rabbi Akiva emerged in peace. THE ORCHARD

What a healthy relationship to time, viewing it not as a mark of age, but as an opportunity to grow in wisdom. If I learned a page a day, then instead of resigning myself to being one day older, I

“Few artists in the Jewish world capture the beauty of holiness, and avodah [worship]…than Yoram Raanan.” ~ Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Raanan’s paintings add a dimension of renewal, revival and hope. His paintings create a bridge between past and future, the individual

You have suffered a change that alters the very system that you live by. No wonder you feel like you world is in chaos. You can’t cope or figure life out anymore. You don’t believe that anybody can help you,

A long life is not good enough, but a good life is long enough. THE COMMITTED LIFE PRINCIPLES FOR GOOD LIVING FROM OUR TIMELESS PAST by Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis ~ review by Cindy There is a charming story about an

While the universal messages of the Bible echoes around the world, the text, in all its hundreds of translations, always speaks in a particular idiom – that of Israel’s nature and agriculture. – Nogah Hareuveni THE BIBLICAL HERITAGE SERIES 1.

Women who have the ability to emulate G-d by bringing children into the world and wear multiple hats on any given day are truly unique and beyond measure. A woman is her husbands’ confidante, the mother of their children, the

The truth is: When you are sinking, when you are totally wrapped in your own fear and pain, it is still possible to break out. God’s Loving Presence surrounds you at all times; God shares your pain as only an

It’s often past belief that I, that I alone of all the millions who had come to grief, that I without a scratch climbed from the vale of bones. At times I can’t imagine it, it’s past belief. Perhaps I

Suffering humanizes us. Ignoring suffering dehumanizes us… Attunement to suffering makes us more compassionate. It also helps us appreciate where we come from and all that it took to get us to where we are. We have to remind ourselves

For a Jew to believe in God is good. For a Jew to protest against God is still good. But simply to ignore God, that is not good. Anger, yes. Protest, yes. Affirmation, yes. But indifference? No. You can be

    Dr. Faydra Shapiro – an outstanding scholar and teacher, who is also a warm and wonderful woman I am honored to call friend – invited me to review her new book on Amazon. It is an honest and brave work

America will never win the war [against terrorism] until Americans read about Islam from Arab sources, word for word, without distortion or falsification. Reading this material will enable them to draw their own personal conclusions and help them to understand