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After stubbornly enduring blood, frogs, lice, wild beasts, epidemic, and boils, Pharaoh has somewhat of a breakthrough following the seventh plague, hail. It is then that he...
Reasoning with the Unreasonable We all know what it’s like to be internally attacked by our own persistent patterns of negative thoughts, a nasty inner voice that...
A friend of mine who works very hard on himself recently told me that after a period of sustained growth, he suddenly experienced a painful spiritual failure...
A rabbi once got so sick that he couldn’t make it to shul for Shabbos. The next day, the shul president visited the rabbi’s house. “I’m here...
Parshas Beshalach Have you ever heard the old folktale about the man and the two travelers? An old farmer was hoeing in his field beside the road...
I sensed it for a while, but it took me many years to have the courage to say it so bluntly. It seems clear to me that...
The name of this week’s Torah reading is “The Life of Sarah.” And if we look at the life of our mother Sarah, we can understand something...
By Rabbi Shais Taub The Theodicy of the Churban In Parshas Re’eh, as the people are preparing to enter Israel, Moshe instructs them:[1] “Demolish the altars [of...
By R’ Shais Taub The Fall Guy The new CEO of a large tech firm met with the outgoing CEO who gave him three numbered envelopes. “If...
By Rabbi Shais Taub Department of Redundancy Department “Look here,” a husband says to his wife, “This article says that men use about 10,000 words per day...