Category: Lectures

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…

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: 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…

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…

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…