Tag: tefillah
What I Found When I Opened a Letter I Wrote to Hashem Last Year On the first night of Chanuka this year, I opened a sealed envelope that had been sitting in my living room for a full year. I wrote it on the last night of Chanuka last year. I honestly didn’t remember what…
You can be doing everything right… and still feel completely empty inside. You can be doing everything right… and still feel completely empty inside.I know because I lived it. And recently in Yerushalayim, a young man came to my table with a question that hit me so deeply it brought everything back — the numbness,…
Most of us think we’re stuck.We don’t see change. We don’t feel growth.We’re doing the same things, facing the same struggles… and wondering:“Am I even moving forward?” But Hashem sees something you don’t:You’re not stuck. You’re leveling up. Growing up with my siblings, I never noticed myself getting taller. None of us did. We were…
What Korbanot, Birkat Kohanim, and Shmoneh Esrei Teach Us About Showing Up With Kavana Sometimes, I catch myself in the middle of Shmoneh Esrei and realize… I’m not even there. I said the words. I bowed in the right places. I even remembered to pause before Modim. But my head? Somewhere else entirely. And yet…
The other day, my three-year-old walked into the house like a king returning to his palace. He threw down his bag, kicked off his shoes, and marched straight to his toys without a second thought. It struck me—he had absolute trust that everything he needed would be taken care of. Rent? Electricity? Water? Those concerns…
