A friend of mine challenged me on FaceBook to 7 days of posting memorable or personally significant bible verses. Now the challenge is over, I decided to share all seven post in one area. I would like to challenge those who would want to take up this 7 day challenge to either privately do a …
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Locked Up
Psalm 92:6“How great are Your works, O Eternal; how exceedingly profound Your thoughts.” Being an offspring of the Boomer Generation, I was blessed with being raised around some great people, who taught me moral work ethics. Recently, I have been battling with a situation on my job where there are some who seem to care …
Meditations For Righteous Living – Gratitude
“Feeling grateful to the Creator is indeed our most important task. We build a steadfast connection by way of our gratitude to Him. Therefore, as long as our gratitude to God is deficient, our connection to Him remains weak and incomplete.”Rabbi Shalom Arush, The Garden of Gratitude. Soon after speaking on the subject of gratitude, …
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Meditations For Righteous Living – Prayer
“When we pray, it is a sign of our faith in God. Why else would we be praying? Prayer increases our faith and, as we pray, we gradually develop a more intimate feeling for our Creator.”Breslov Prayer Siddur - Prayer to God Is My Life There are times we all struggle with prayer. The desire …
A Conversation With God
This blog was inspired by a discussion we had during our Torah For The Nations Zoom class. Our classes are more like family discussions, we may start out with a specific topic it seems to always lead us into a discussion of other subjects. Our rabbi, Rabbi Pesach Sherbow desires his classes to revolve around …
My God, The King Pt. 6
Halleluyah Psalm 146 This psalm is a song of hope and encouragement for the oppressed. The Psalmist in verse 2 shows us that the Creator endows every person with two gifts. Psalm 146:2"I will Praise Hashem while I live, I will make music to my God while I exist." First, He gives life, the basic …
My God, The King Pt. 5
Ashrei - Praiseworthy Psalm 145 Many of my readers know that I spent 6 + years studying and preparing for Orthodox Jewish Conversion. During that time, this particular psalm became my favorite for many reasons. It is the inspiration of the ‘Blessing before meals’ that I recite in thanking the Creator for His provision of …
My God, The King Pt. 4
A Psalm of Thanksgiving Psalm 100 The introduction to this psalm in the Artscroll Tanach Series Tehillim/Psalms, gives us interesting history and background information. “This psalm was sung in the Temple during the service of the Thanksgiving offering, an offering that one would bring in thanksgiving after having survived great danger.” It is suggested that …
My God, The King Pt. 3
As we begin our journey into the body of the Verses of Praise and Pruning. One or all of these passages can be recited to help aid you in approaching the Creator with the rest of your heart felt prayers. The first set of verses are found in the book of 1 Chronicles. In the …
My God, The King Pt.2
The section of the Jewish prayer book that this series of blogs will be examining is, Pesukei D’Zimrah. “Pesukei D’Zimrah is translated as ‘Verses of Praise’. However, many commentators relate ‘zimrah’ to the verb ‘tizmor’ - ‘prune’ (Leviticus 25:4). In this view we recite ‘Verses of Pruning’, which are designed ‘to cut away’ the mental …
Emuna Trek 