Category: Lectures

COUNTING DAYS, TO MAKE DAYS COUNT By: Suri Davis   It is a common commentary in the Torah when G-d asks Moses to count the Jews, the question arises, “Doesn’t G-d know how many Jews there are, why does Moses need to count them”?  The commentaries comment that this is so, to show how much…

Better or Bitter? By: Slovie Jungreis-Wolff Five-year-old Lily shows us how to get through life’s challenges. “Sometimes it really hurts when the doctor puts a needle in my arm.” I am visiting five-year-old Lily, whose mother attends my parenting classes. Last summer, Lily had some awful headaches. One night, they became so terrible that Lily…

LESSON 46:  THE SEVEN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN A MAN WHO TRUSTS G-D FOR HIS LIVELIHOOD AND HE WHO DOESN’T TRUST G-D FOR HIS LIVELIHOOD. PART VI https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/el-dee/episodes/Sixth-Difference-Between-a-Man-Who-Trusts-in-G-d-and-a-Man-Who-Doesnt-Trust-in-G-d-e2p2pm6   In the last few classes, we discussed the seven differences between a man who trusts G-d for his livelihood, and he who doesn’t trust G-d for his livelihood.…

 Blame It On Something Else?! Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., LMFT, CLC, SDS It’s never really us. I’m running late. It’s the traffic! It’s hard to say we didn’t figure out the timing right. I ate too much. The food was too good. Not I’m weak on discipline. The test was unfair. Not I didn’t study…

DEHAMASIFICATION By: Suri Davis   After World War II, Germany and its Axis nations were replete with Nazis and Nazi sympathizers.  They had raised their children to dehumanize Jews and other ethnic people, they raised them to be brown shirts and ultimately, part of Hitler’s “superior” race. Among them, were people who we call Righteous…

LESSON 19, VERSES SUPPORTING G-D’S TRUSTWORTHINESS, PART 2 https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/el-dee/episodes/Class-19-Biblical-Verses-Which-Support-G-ds-Attributes–Part-2-e2662ip The author, Rabbeinu Bachya ibn Pekuda started his book asking the question, why we should trust in G-d. He now turns to the process of accepting and incorporating trust of G-d in our every day lives. We’ve discussed the qualities of trustworthiness which G-d has which …