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Now that we are in the month of Kislev, the month of geula and nissim (and I would add, the month of light), we certainly can learn many lessons from this month.  One thing that I was thinking about recently is the idea of “luck”, or mazal. And of course the idea of coincidence as […]

Moshiach will reveal a new and higher light than has ever been revealed in the world before. As we approach that time, the G-dly revelations become more concealed in preparation for this new light so things often appear darker in the world. But the reality is that the world is just preparing for a greater

I was watching an interview with Eva Sandler,  widow of Jonathan Sandler, and her strength is incredible, may Hashem continue  to give her strength and to comfort her among all the mourners of Zion and may  she know only simchas from now on. But one thing she said that truly entered my  heart: she said

Why is that good people seem to suffer so much? Or that anything holy or good always seems to have so much opposition? We learn in Tanach the story of Ruth and Boaz: everyone thought Boaz made an error to marry Ruth and that is why he died the night after their wedding. However Hashem

Right now I am feeling very sad….and very  mad! Such a chutzpa that an evil arab terrorist entered a Jewish home and murdered three Jews for no reason other than that they are Jewish living peacefully in their homeland! In honor and memory of these pure, innocent Jews who were murdered in their home this

Rabbi Twerski gave a fascinating talk addressing the misconception of happiness in today’s society, explaining that many people look for happiness in the wrong places or believe pleasure to be the vehicle to happiness.  He explained that we can alter our approach to the “pursuit of happiness” so that instead of our human instincts dominating our personal

Why is happiness so difficult to achieve?  We certainly have all heard the advice: focus on the good and on the blessings you have and you will become happy.  That definitely has a profound lesson in it: we do need to focus on our blessings, to acknowledge the good, feel gratitude and be happy. But

We can never attempt to find a reason for a tragedy. Reasons are known only to the Creator of the world. But we can sometimes look at a situation as a reflection of things going on in the world or in society and take action to correct certain things in order to avert future tragedies. What

Thanking Hashem for what you have…and what you don’t have. Jews are always thanking Hashem. We wake up every morning and the first words we utter are modeh ani, thanking Hashem for restoring our souls to us after our sleep. So we do have this awareness that we need to thank G-d constantly for all

So many of our youth are confused (actually not only youth….many mature adults as well). WE are in a very deep galus, a very dark spiritual situation where people are looking for happiness from external sources. People are not happy deep inside. People have lost that enthusiasm and simcha that chassidim have always had. Why