CHOCHMAS NASHIM: TRUSTING THE KING By: Suri Davis This year, my focus is on Bitachon/Trust in G-d. I started podcasting my first podcast, Be Bitachon on Spotify, after losing two very close relatives. Honestly, I read Shaar Habitachon by Rabbi Bachya Ibn Pekudah four times this year, because I felt resistance to his concepts…
Category: Lectures
Slovie: 7 Ways Couples Strengthen Their Marriage
7 Things Happy Couples Do to Strengthen Their Marriage by Slovie Jungreis-Wolff August 20, 2023 4 min read Practical wisdom on improving your marriage. No one is immune from the strains that lead a couple to separate or divorce. What do happy couples do to keep their relationship strong? They leave open the door of communication…
Suri: Chochmas Nashim: Ki Tavo: Gratitude and Seychel
CHOCHMAS NASHIM: KI TAVO: GRATITUDE AND SEYCHEL By: Suri Davis Stern 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…
Chochmas Nashim: Ki Tetzei: Pi Shnayim Double Trouble
CHOCHMAS NASHIM: KI TEITZEI: PI SHNAYIM By: Suri Davis This week’s torah portion discusses leaving a double portion of a man’s estate to the eldest son. It appears in the Toras Menachem edition of Deuteronomy that this mitzvah is not counted among the 27 mitzvahs/commandments/good deeds set forth in the torah portion. …
Suri: Chochmas Nashim: Shoftim: Justice Justice
CHOCHMAS NASHIM: SHOFTIM: G-D’S MESSENGERS By: Suri Davis Wouldn’t it be nice, if we were ill, to be able to walk into G-d’s clinic and say, heal me. Wouldn’t it be awesome if as children, we woke up to G-d’s voice, and he fed us our breakfast and sent us off to school. Wouldn’t…
Suri: Chochmas Nashim: Re’eh: Godliness
CHOCHMAS NASHIM: RE’EH: GODLINESS By: Suri Davis What is it like to be Godlike? G-d created the world with perfection and goodness, man repays that kindness with sin. This parshah/torah portion and its connection with the haftorah. Fascinating!!! The very first verse peaks our interest. See I, G-d, give before you today blessing…
Suri: Chochmas Nashim: Eikev: Ayeka, Where Are You?
CHOCHMAS NASHIM: EIKEV: AYEKA/WHERE ARE YOU? By: Suri Davis Deuteronomy 7:17: “When you say to your heart, the enemy outnumbers me, eichah/how can I conquer them.” Deuteronomy 8:5: “And know in your heart, that as a man censures his child, so too does G-d censure/punish you.” During the three weeks between the surrounding…
Suri: Vaetchanan and Lamentations at the Crossroads
SHABBOS NACHAMU: VAETCHANAN and LAMENTATIONS AT THE CROSS ROADS By: Suri Davis We have the torah portions for the last few weeks, and really now until the end of the Jewish year, through Simchat Torah, where Moshe is standing in front of the Jews, in one of the longest soliloquys. He is talking to the…
Slovie: 10 Ways to Instantly Improve Your Relationship
10 Ways to Instantly Improve Your Relationship by Slovie Jungreis-Wolff June 26, 2023 5 min read Practice these habits daily and reignite the spark in your marriage. Even the best relationships can fall into a boring routine. You start taking one another for granted. You get caught up in work or life pressures. You lose connection. Here…
Rivki: Have We Been Hoodwinked?!
HAVE WE BEEN HOODWINKED?! Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., LMFT, CLC, SDS I made it out of the “hood”. This Expression is usually used to communicate that- one has escaped a less desirable place or situation and entered a nicer one. Can we all somehow relate to that? Let me put it this way. We go…