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Gratitude and Its Levels
Gratitude is a part of our essence, and is what defines us as a nation…
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Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People?
Part 3: Rav Soloveitchik’s Anti-TheodicyRav Soloveitchik first confronts the question of evil in its traditional formulation…
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Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People?
Part 2: Why Do the Righteous Suffer?There is a verse in Tehillim that states: “The Lord tests the righteous…”
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Serving Hashem With What We Have
Toward the end of the chagim, we read Kohelet, written by Shlomo HaMelech. While reading it, I thought about Shlomo’s father, King David, and I discovered something fascinating that never struck me before. From his beginnings as a shepherd to the times he was homeless, running and hiding from his enemies, King David in his
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Yaakov, Rachel, and Yosef: Withstanding the Test of Being Alone
“Without anyone or anything else; without people that you know or are usually with.”
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Prayer and Hitbodedut: Reflections on Connecting to Hashem in Different Ways
How many times have I raced through davening because of a busy schedule? Or got distracted by the people around me, noises outside, or even the phone ringing? And I can’t even count the number of moments where my own trifling thoughts creep into my daily prayer that I can’t even remember the words I’ve
