While reading Rabbi Shalom Arush’s book, Say “Thank You” and See Miracles - The Garden of Miracles, he wrote in something in it that caused me to stop and ponder a bit more on what Noah must have gone through when he was told about the Flood and up to the time he and his …
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Rain Drops
The Eternal Creator is beyond our ability to comprehend Him. He is infinite and we are so finite and yet we do our best to describe Him using human terminology; He is the source of all that is created and is above and beyond His Creation. All we have at our disposal is the creation …
The Source
This blog was inspired by Rabbi Lazer Brody’s Cd, Dollars and Sense. Even though the Cd is directed to a Jewish audience, I was instructed that non-Jews have to do some editing to apply Jewish resources to our lives. At this time there are not many resources out there for the righteous gentiles of the …
Lost & Found
On the heals of my last blog discussing virtues and values, I had a great sharing opportunity. A lady I know found a dime and asked me if it was mine. I told her no but I did have a charity box I could put it in. I then went on to tell her that …
Eye Of The Tiger
The other morning, while listening to the radio on the way to work one of my favorite songs from the Rocky movies came on. As I sang along with the radio some of the words of the song took on a different meaning to me. Coming from a background of studying for Orthodox Jewish conversion, …
The Power of Kindness
“There is no hope of joy except in human relations.” Antoine De Saint-Exupery I began this blog from a thought I had when I read a statement in a Facebook thread I was following. A day later I saw a book on my shelf that I had not yet read, the subject of the book …
Psalm 145
Everyone that knows me, knows that Psalm 145 is one of my favorite chapters. For me it says it all and I go back to it very often. In the Hebrew it contains 150 words, it is a culmination of all the Psalms. The tenth verse of this Psalm has been on my mind lately. …
Baggage
This morning I began the study of a book I was recommended by a friend, ‘The Introduction To The Talmud by Maimondides’ translated by Zvi Lampel. In the translator’s Preface is found a statement that I found myself pondering on all morning, “...by peerless, earnest toil, in an attempt to understand the will of Hashem.” …
Learning or Entertainment
Many of my readers know that I spent 6+ years studying Orthodox Jewish conversion and right at the time I was about to move to a Jewish community, I asked myself that question that everyone going through the proses asks or is asked, “Why are do you want to convert?”. For those wondering I did …
Knowledge
This morning I a woke with the subject of ‘knowledge’ on my mind. I knew shortly that I wanted to write on it for it has been on my mind for some time now. Shortly after I woke I had read a writing on this week’s Torah section by Yossi Katz of the Breslov Research …
Emuna Trek 