In recent years, davening has been very difficult for me. There were times when I convinced myself that when I got to a certain age or...

Unfortunately, over the past few months, I have had a busier schedule due to the virus and I have not had an opportunity to consistently...

Being in Eretz Yisrael for almost two months was a spiritually uplifting experience. A few years ago, when I lived in Florida and was...

Please pray with me! רפאל ניסן בן בתיה for refua shelaima!

It's been almost two years since I have had a consistent running schedule. During this week, I got really motivated and made a strong...

A couple of weeks ago, I experienced being at the kosel on friday night for the first time. Even after many years of preparation, my mind...

Recently, I have been meditating on different ways to make being Jewish more meaningful. In the last week, I spoke to someone who pointed out that opening up about personal spiritual experiences can lead to making these articles more meaningful. To be completely honest, opening up about my religious flaws isn't comfortable for me but, in an effort to solve those flaws, I would like to share some thoughts with you and maybe it will help you if your struggling with the same thi

This past Sunday, I travelled to Eretz Yisrael. For the past little while, the parsha schedule for Eretz Yisrael has been a week ahead of...

Throughout the years, the Lubavitcher Rebbe would have chassidic gatherings. Many of these gatherings were written and captured on video....

Sometimes, we create a routine within life that, when change comes along, it makes it very hard to deviate. In those cases, we might need...

This week, I had the opportunity to watch my young cousins while their parents were at work. During that time, we watched a show about someone who did everything different than the standard. For example, instead of saying "come in", they would say "come out". The lesson was that you don't need to do everything according to the "norm" in order to succeed in this world. In this week's Parsha, Hashem instructs Moshe to tell Aaron that he should light the menorah. On a practical

After Shavuos, my father and I took a flight from Florida to New York and waited an extra four hours in the airport because of delays. I was reflecting on my travel experience and was wondering what we can do to make something mundane like travel into something holy. In this week's Parsha, we read about the duties that a Levi household member had while traveling. For example, the Mishkan was split into multiple parts and given to different sections of the Levi family. Each Le

During the holiday of Shavuos, Hashem opened himself up for a more personal connection with his children through the giving of the Torah....

A rich man visited his mother in the hospital a few days before she passed away. In the midst of a conversation, she said to him "I am very proud of you." His mother was a holocaust survivor who had 13 children before the war and watched them all perish. After the war, she got remarried and had one child. Throughout his life, she never said that she loved him. This man made deals worth millions on multiple occasions but none of them came close to being as important or meaning

During the past few weeks, I couldn't listen to music because of sefira. This rare opportunity afforded me the chance to hear a lecture...

This past week, I took part as thousands of people from around the world said tehillim for Refael who was in critical condition. The...

I was in a shul over chol hamoed and took a moment to internalize everything around me. People from all walks of life came together to...

Pesach is so intrinsically connected to the idea of geulah that it is called the holiday of redemption. After spending the past two weeks...

During the month of Nissan, we all need to anxiously await moshiach. Nissan is the month of geulah so therefore moshiach is a more...

This past Friday, I was talking to my great grandfather when he told me the following story; “When I was eighteen, I wanted to become...