Dreamers and Doers
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.—Paul Valery The story is told of a Lubavitch devotee whose two teenage sons...
P'shetl Redux
Shortly before his bar mitzvah in 1916, R’ Chaim Michel Ber Weissmandel zt”l prepared his bar mitzva p’shetl (speech) all by himself. His...
Cheerleaders
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. -- Phyllis Diller The fable is told about a group of frogs travelling through the...
Body and Soul
You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. -- C.S. Lewis What sort of preparations should be made in the face of...
Painful Departure, Everlasting Influence
They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds. -- Mexican Proverb I’ve learned the same words for decades, but never have they...
Dunno
There’s no shame in admitting what you don’t know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson In a...
What Shidduch Crisis?
There is no shidduch crisis. There, I said it. Now, calm down. It’s only partially true. Well, sort of. Let me explain. Of course, there...
A Word of Advice About A Word of Advice
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. -- Publilius Syrus A doctor and a lawyer were at a cocktail party, when the doctor was...