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Mark FrankelThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
This Thursday night Jews around the world celebrate Shavuos, the holiday marking the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. Whatever your beliefs, the...
There are four pulls that keep us from acting the way we want to. Self-centeredness, distraction, lethargy, and pleasure-seeking. The pull of lethargy...
Last week we named four pulls that work against every good intention. The second was distraction. Not carelessness. The quiet fact that your mind is...
Last week we named four pulls that work against every good intention. The first was self-centeredness. Not selfishness. The quiet fact that you are...
A general rule of reality is: The body wants what feels good. The ego wants what looks good. The soul wants what is good. Most of the time, the soul...
The Ramchal opens the Mesillas Yesharim with a demand most sefarim skip. Before he discusses a single practice, before mussar or middos or avodah, he...
Those days are called Chol HaMoed, the intermediate days. Not quite holiday, not quite ordinary. You are in the middle of something that has not...
Every great story has the same shape: a beginning, a conflict, and a resolution. We feel this instinctively. We lean forward during the tension and...
Most of us live in a very small slice of time. The Haggadah refuses that smallness. Its demand is not to remember the Exodus but to relive it: “In...
There is a food that means two opposite things at the same time. Before the exodus from Egypt, matzah was slave bread. Flat, plain, loveless. The...
We live in an age obsessed with identity. Which group you belong to, which labels you carry, which side you are on. Identity has become a political...
There is something unusual about the book of Esther that most people, even those who have heard the story many times, never quite register. God’s...
There is a particular kind of regret that arrives quickly. Not the slow regret of a decision made badly over time, but the sharp kind that shows up...
The four inner forces that overpower your values in real time Last week we described a familiar problem. We care about honesty, patience, and self...
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