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From a news story: "One man's neighbors reported that he subsisted on cat food. During the winter, they collected money and bought him a warm coat. When he died, the kindly neighbors were astounded and outraged to learn that the miserly man had amassed $850,000 in bank accounts under some fo...

I daydreamed through sunset Dreaming of dawn When I came to my senses The Sun was long gone ; I understood then What my Mum used to say: When you live in tomorrow Then you miss today

Ever wonder what would happen if we treated the Torah as we treat our cell phone? What if we carried it around in our purse or pocket every day? What if we looked through it many times each day? What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it? What if we always checked it for messages? What i...

R' Avraham Alter ran a Yeshiva in Chicago for many years. He worked together with Baalei Teshuva. There was one fellow who was straddling the fence for a number of years. R' Avraham very much wanted this fellow to make a commitment. And he told the fellow, "You got to do something. You can't keep...

Mesilas Yesharim ;says, "Kol inyanei haolam nisyanos heim l'adam ;-- ;All the matters in this world, everything, are tests for man." That's a sweeping statement! What does it mean ;tests? Hashem has to test you to know what you are? He doesn't know beforehand what you're going to do? What's the p...

The pasuk says: "velo sasuru acharei levavchem ve’acharei einechem." Rashi brings from chazal: the eyes are scouts for the body. The eyes see, then the heart desires, and the rest of the body gets dragged into it as well. This raises an obvious question: the pasuk says einechem only after having ...

The son of an American Jew was approaching ;bar mitzvah ;age, and his father decided to bestow his son with a wonderful present. He told his son that before his ;bar mitzvah, they would travel together to Eretz Yisroel to the ;bais ;medrash ;of the senior ;posek, Rav Shmuel Wosner ;shlit”a, the ;...

Whether you’re an athlete, entrepreneur, teacher, parent, manager, or - fill in the blank here -, what percentage of your game do you think is mental? ; When Lanny Bassham, our Olympic gold-medal-winner, asks elite performers that question, they all say that elite performance is 90% mental. ;...

Habit #2 of "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey ; Begin with the End in Mind ; So, once we move from being reactive to being proactive (Habit #1), we realize we aren’t victims. We’re creators. Which, naturally, begs ;the ;question: What do we want to create? ; For that, ...

Technology is a tool; it is not inherently good or bad. To keep it in a healthy place in our lives requires skillful use. Unlike passing trends that scared parents over the years, research shows poorly monitored screen time bluntly impacts kids for the worse. (Rock and roll was never shown to aff...