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The Zohar teaches that we are obligated to praise Hashem for the miracles and kindnesses He shows us. Yet we often reserve the word miracle for splitting seas and dramatic rescues, while [...]

Scent does not merely remind us of the past. Sometimes, for a few seconds, it reinstalls us there…There are doorways that do not look like doorways. A song can be one. A recipe can be one. A [...]

We are living in an age of total accessibility. Everything is marketed as “healing,” “transformational,” or “science backed.” Breathwork, mindfulness, psychedelics, sound baths, yoga — all of it [...]

There is quiet theology in an apple’s crunch, in melting chocolate, in the aroma of a tisane. The world was not engineered solely for survival; it was composed for encounter. Judaism treats [...]

This semester, I’m teaching courses in psychodynamic psychotherapy and social work ethics—subjects centered on safety, boundaries, and relational presence.

This morning, I lasted just thirty seconds in my cold contrast shower. If you know Buffalo, you know the cold here isn’t subtle. By January, it’s not novel, it’s elemental. The water doesn’t [...]

This semester, I’ve been teaching Advanced Clinical Practice at Touro University. The course begins in an unusual way: the entire first quarter, what I call the “quadrester,” focuses not on [...]

Pas b’salo appears in the Talmud (Yoma 18a), which teaches that a person who has bread within reach is fundamentally more at ease than one without. This isn't just about food. It’s about mindset, [...]

There’s a folk saying: When you point a finger at someone, three fingers point back at you. Psychology calls this projection—the tendency to see in others what we cannot face in ourselves.

“Believe to Receive” is not about treating the universe like a personal ATM, dispensing goodies at the push of thought-buttons. Nor is it about twisting or manipulating reality to serve our [...]