Jewish Knowledge Base: Good and Evil Will good prevail? Does evile exist? Jewish teaching has some surprising questions--and some even more surprising answers
"Nothing is higher than delight," say the sages. All of Man's
desires, musings and conniving, his every word and all his actions, all emerge from his sense of beauty, of pleasure, from his search for the most elegant and delightful.
As in Man, the microcosm, so in the Creation: The essence of each thing is the Creator's delight in it. When that delight shines through, all merges as one whole, a magnificent symphony in exquisite harmony.... [Continue]
A Watchful Eye Accepting My Own (Temporary) Limits As A Mom It is interesting what happens when you simply watch your kids. They begin to demonstrate all sorts of abilities you never realized they had, just lurking under the surface of their dependency on you...
Kaddish with Oprah In 11 months of minyans, this was the most interesting Kaddish experience of them all... During my eleven months of saying Kaddish, I ended up in various minyans from San Francisco to Halifax, but the phone call in New York was the start of what turned out to be perhaps the most interesting Kaddish experience of them all...
Birds of Pray The best time to watch birds is in the morning. In fact, the more closely you adhere to the optimal schedule of Jewish devotion, the more certain you are to miss the most beautiful aspect of watching the birds, and that is... listening to them.
Discover Your Jewish Birthday Use this handy tool to find out the Hebrew day corresponding to your date of birth -- and then discover when it occurs this year.
