My friend was trying to borrow a succah for the upcoming Y”T (as her plans changed due to COVID) and finally declared, “I’m going to stop asking around and just buy myself a succah. I need some stability.” I couldn’t resist. “If it’s stability you’re after, you should definitely buy a succah. Now there’s a real symbol of permanence.” …
On Monday, I sat down to write a post about Yom Kippur. I opened up my blog. Clicked on “add new.” Looked at the screen. Didn’t write. On Tuesday, I sat down to write a post about Yom Kippur. Nothing. On Wednesday, I clicked open a bunch of other tabs until I had to go to bed. …
I learned the concept of the yearly direction from Rabbi Aryeh Nivin in his Elul course. Since the course is Rabbi Nivin’s curriculum, I’ll just give the general idea without the whole process. (I heard something similar from a friend taking a Dina Friedman course, but I won’t go through her process either in this post, I’ll just write the general …
Hi, everyone. I didn’t finish any books this summer but I started a bunch. I’m going to finish some eventually… These are not going in my total for the year but I’m in middle of: Music Medicine: The Science and Spirit of Healing Yourself with Sound, by Christine Stevens. This is basically a book about music therapy and using …
Rosh Hashanah is in less than two weeks and I don’t really know what to do with that. It’s been so many months without structure, I don’t have that “new school year” adrenaline rush that usually revs me up for the Yomim Noraim. I was reviewing previous Rosh Hashanah posts and it hit me that each year when I …
I don’t think I ever talked about the concept of yimei ha’ahava and yimei hasinah from Rav Wolbe on this blog. Which is interesting to me because at one point it was a paradigm I thought about all the time. I’m noticing that certain concepts or ideas float in and out of my mind at different times and when I …
I’m excited to write about this topic because I love it so much and I want everyone to know about it 🙂 . I touched on it in this year’s Tu B’Av post where I gave an example of someone holding themselves back from living the life they dream of because parts of them (as opposed to their true Self) …
Hi, everyone. I had a few topics floating in my mind for what to write about this Monday, but I keep getting the feeling that something is missing from this space. What are the gaps in the subject matter we’ve covered so far on the blog? Any questions you want answered about shidduchim or more broadly about the experience of …
Remember how I said that I wanted to learn how to bake challah? Well, it’s happening. I’ve actually been interested in learning how to bake challah for months, since long before my “Shabbos project.” One of my friends offered to teach me back when but then the lockdowns happened so that was put on hold. A few weeks ago …
Two weeks ago I wrote about the ambiguous loss of singlehood, a concept I just learned about in my research for a school paper. The concept resonated strongly with me and based on the feedback I’ve received, with you, too. If you have the time or inclination, I’d highly recommend reading the full text of the journal article (citation …
