Category: Lectures

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: NOAH: PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE By: Suri Davis   Tanya Yomi for this week discusses a situation where there is a man who is praying to G-d, a seemingly wicked man appears before him and starts a fight with the praying man.  The founder of Chasidism, the Baal Shem Tov, had followers, chasidim, and those…

YIZKOR: AN ESSAY By: Suri Davis   It has been a year and a half since my father, ZTL, passed away, and since I started saying Yizkor for him.  As Orthodox Jews, we are taught that the soul is eternal.  We know from the Book of Jeremiah, and Rachel’s tears upon the horizon, that her…

How to embrace the opportunity of Yom Kippur and use it to truly change. Here are three ways to tap into the transformational power of Yom Kippur. 1. Make yourself vulnerable. Yom Kippur is a day unlike any other. The energy of the day is the power of teshuvah – returning to become the person you were created…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: MAN, THE BRIDGE By: Suri Davis   The apex of the Book of Jonah we read on Yom Kippur eve, is G-d’s lesson to Jonah.  Jonah is tired after all he has gone through with the storm ridden ship, being swallowed by a whale, and providing warnings to the citizens of Ninveh that…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: TO FORGIVE IS DIVINE By: Suri Davis There is a popular retort to the famous Rosh Hashanah query:  “How was your Rosh Hashanah?”  Reply: “I’ll let you know next year.”  If you are reading this, then the answer, at the very least is, “I survived.”  After two and a half years of Covid,…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: KI TAVO By: Suri Davis               The parshah almost appears to be a repetition of parshat Bechukotai, if you follow G-d’s commandments, you will be rewarded, and if you don’t follow G-d’s commandments, then you will be punished.  A recurring theme in any religion.  Let’s review some interesting points up close.            …

Let’s Talk Chulent!   Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., LMFT, CLC, SDS There are addictions and aversions.  And there’s rarely an in between.  People either love it and must have it or they literally can’t take the smell or the look of it.  Though, you’ve got to give them that, the look is not it’s winning quality. This will never…