Chizuk

I had had an amazing episode I would like to share with you. I had a big fall (again), and I was feeling terrible about life. Basically, I just had a baby boy born on Erev Succos, with Down syndrome and a few other complications, so it's been stressful, to say the least, ...

The only way to describe our great friend Jack* is that his accomplishments in the realm of Gilui Arayos were of a scale never before seen by humanity. With technology at his hand and his unprecedented use of media, he did for Arayos what Hitler, Mao Zedong, and Stalin d...

What is happiness? Is happiness smiling, telling jokes, having a good time? If so why does my soul feel so empty? Like my very being is getting burned up alive with no one to put out the fire! Don't they see someone suffering? Don't they see someone who's scared to face t...

"Fortunate is he who did not sin!One who did should returnAnd will be forgiven" This is the song that was taught at the annual "Simchas Beis Hashoeva" festivities in the Beis Hamikdash (1) Which sin are they referring to? And why was the the song of choice? They were hint...

Throughout Yom Kippur, we talk about our sins and how we've pushed ourselves away from Hashem and grown far from Him. We then ask for forgiveness not only from Hashem but from anyone that we've ever hurt in any way. But as I was davening I thought about something my Rebbe...

A man was visiting in Paris and went to a kosher restaurant in the Jewish Quarter, known as the Pletzel. The prices were high, but there was a sign on the wall that stated, “Today you pay, tomorrow, free of charge.” The man figured that it was a good deal, so he ate, paid...

This quote from Mishlei (24:16) teaches us a valuable lesson on how to deal with our struggles against addiction, obsessions and compulsive behaviors. You might understand this to mean that the definition of a righteous person is someone who falls many times and gets back...

We know that the Sota is a woman who is suspected of committing adultery. This claim is based on the fact that she was caught in seclusion with a man who is not her husband. She has to drink the potion to determine the truth - did she commit adultery or not. If she did, ...

As a person struggling for many years with Kedusha on various fronts including smartphone ownership, the shmuess is as follows: On the one hand, we see that, for example, in Al Chet we confess even to things that might be called madreigos, or quite a lofty level of re...

If one doesn’t want to give, One can’t really live. Of course, one is alive, physically, But what joy is there practically? If I live for my own selfish desires, How can there be anything greater to aspire? If I feel satiated and content, There is no room to grow or repe...