Spiritual

Where is the Man in the Yellow Hat?

Candle-lighting time is powerful and redemptive. In a few precious moments, with a few carefully considered words and a few emotionally charged thoughts, you can change your life. You can even change the world.

The weekly light of paradise

When we are faced with dark times in a dark world, we have two choices: we can curse the darkness or we can bring light into the darkness.

Zmirot - the pen of the soul

The Jewish people have an incredible spiritual and musical heritage. One of the most meaningful parts of the Shabbat meal is when we sing Shabbat songs.

An extra soul on Shabbat

As Shabbat approaches, we create a place for the additional neshamah by discarding much of the weekday matter we have accumulated.

The Jewish people will use you as a blessing...

After the chaos of the week, when it's time to bless the children on a Friday night, this is our uninterrupted moment to share in, completely.

Oh, the humanity

Shabbat as a bulwark against transhumanism? Ben Judah argues that the laws of Shabbat safeguard something more essential than family time and Friday night dinners…

The Last Hurdle

“It was a long time ago — I am 42 now — but I still think about that Shabbat. That feeling of a great spirit body moving across the face of the dark water is an experience I still marvel at and have never felt again.”

Join author Daniel Browde on a lyrical, mysterious journey back in time to a Shabbat that has stayed with him.

Twilight reflections

In my twilight years, defined by early Jewish memories, I concluded that, while you can take the girl out of Shabbat, you can't take Shabbat out of the girl.

Feeling my father’s presence

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. A time of death. And a time of life. I experienced the immeasurable loss of one person. And I filled the yawning chasm with a sense of belonging to an entire people... This is the story of how one fateful Shabbat changed everything.