Tag: boundaries


  • The Most Exhausting Belief in Your Mind

    If your mind won’t shut off…if you wake up already behind…if you feel pressure even on “good” days… It’s probably not because your life is hard.It’s because you’re carrying a belief that turns life into a weight. Here it is:“It’s all on me.” That sentence sounds responsible.It sounds mature.It sounds like adulthood. But it’s also…

  • Fencing in the Rose: How Shabbat’s Boundaries Set Us Free

    There’s a powerful line we sing in Shabbos zemer “Ma Yedidut”.  When singing about the beauty of Shabbat, we say “Kashoshanim suga,”,  Shabbat is “like roses that are fenced in.”  Think about that—a rose, fragile and beautiful, needs a fence to protect it. Shabbos is no different. It’s sacred not just because of what it…