There is so much that can be said about the Torah portion of Pinchas and the reading of it which will take place in our Centres all over the world come this Saturday morning. It is written that what made Pinchas a leader, what made him so unique, is that he was given the gift...
The light of a single candle has the power to remove all the darkness in a room. That is the nature of the light. For it does not need to conquer the darkness, it simply fills the void of it. Darkness is not a force, but merely an absence of light. In the same way,...
In today’s world, it has become easy to allow our hearts to close down, and to build walls between ourselves and others. In a world where we may fear an uncertain future, we can find ourselves operating in survival mode, a mode in which we feel we must think only of ourselves and our own...
For many of us, life can seem at times like the title of Eugene O’Neill’s famous play, Long Day’s Journey into Night. We can be beset with struggles. Life can seem, at times, a challenge. However, what keeps us on the journey? We rise each day to continue on a mission that is far bigger than ourselves....
Many of us may remember from our childhoods the first time we picked up a stone, and tossed it into a lake. We may recall with our mind’s eye the ripples that formed in the water. Once pristine, the image in the lake wavered and broke. We might have learned then, the power we have...
There is a saying, “You cannot see the forest for the trees.” In life, it is not always easy to understand why things happen as they do. We have heard before that God works in mysterious ways. Oftentimes in life, things happen that seem unexplainable. We may find ourselves wondering why bad things happen to good...
For thousands of years, ships would rely on the North Star to navigate their ways through the darkness of night and across the roughest of seas. The North Star stays true in the sky, while the other stars seem to move around it. It is the North Star that we can rely on and trust. We...
I have said before, it may be nice to sit alone on a mountain top and meditate, but that isn’t really why we are here. The world is full of people who need our hands. For when a child is hungry, we must feed them. For when a friend is in need, an action is...
Do you remember as a child ever trying to capture a butterfly? With delicate wings, the butterfly bounces and floats gracefully through the air. It seems like the more we tried to capture it though, the more it eluded us. Yet if we had become still, taken a deep breath, and extended our hand, it...
Millennials are special souls. They don’t just believe in God, they want to experience God. What they might not know is that it’s their very destiny is to do so. Google the word “millennial” and you are sure to find a deluge of disparaging articles: What’s Wrong with Millennials, Millennials: The Me, Me, Me Generation. As the Spiritual...
