July 8, 2013

Monday Book Nook: My Garden

So, the Monday Book Nook came about from my weekly Shabbat readings, which are often inspiring and worth telling others about. But not every Shabbat do […]
April 8, 2013

Monday Book Nook: The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel

The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel. To pause and greet the soul is a gift. It is also an inheritance.  So often the idea of observing […]
March 25, 2013

Monday Book Nook: The Torah

This Monday’s Book Nook: The Torah. Really, this should have been the original Book Nook submission. It gets pulled out pretty much every Shabbat. Think of […]
September 14, 2012

Jews and Eating … Gastro-Obsession or Spiritual Manifesting?

It’s countdown to the High Holydays and all I am thinking about is cooking. How many people are coming, who eats what, how do I keep […]
July 12, 2012

The Importance of Letting Go

For Jews, Shabbat is a day of ceasing. It literally translates as such, and expresses itself as a day in which Jews do not work. There […]
June 8, 2012

Full, or Sated?

Can we be sated without being full? A distinguishing aspect of Judaism is the rules and practices that have an influence on all aspects of life […]