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…

  • Why Moshe Waited to Speak: A Powerful Lesson in Humility and Restraint

    This past week was Pesach Sheni, the “second Passover,” and it offers us a powerful window into something much deeper than makeup offerings and second chances. We learn about Pesach Sheni through the story of a group of men who were tamei (ritually impure) and couldn’t bring the Korban Pesach at the proper time. They…

  • 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…