by admin | Oct 3, 2022 | Marriage, Spirituality
Between 2010 and 2013, I co-officiated Jewish High Holyday services with a very influential 20th/21st century Rabbi, a man whose impact on how Judaism has been practiced since the Holocaust cannot be overstated. His name was Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, may his...
by admin | Sep 1, 2022 | Marriage
You’re getting married; CONGRATULATIONS!!! You’re doing so much now. You feel an extra intensity. Be careful! You might inadvertently procrastinate on getting the legal, “boring” tasks accomplished. Perhaps that’s because they feel time consuming, and...
by admin | Jul 25, 2022 | Marriage
Why are there wedding rings on a record album? (And by the way, what is a record album???) As far as historians can tell, people have been giving wedding rings to each other since at least the time of the ancient Egyptians; that’s 3000+ years ago! To the ancient...
by admin | Sep 14, 2021 | Spirituality
What is the Yetzer Ha’rah? We first encounter this term in Gen: 6:5 – “God saw how great was man’s wickedness on earth, and how every plan devised by his mind was nothing but evil all the time”. One of the Talmudic commentaries on this verse can be found in the Eitz...
by admin | Sep 2, 2021 | Spirituality
I had the pleasure of being interviewed recently by Paul Landry, a brilliant, eclectic musician/composer/producer/guitarist extraordinaire/founder of the New Age Music Planet. How this Broadway/standards- singing/Jewish/spiritual/cabaret singer turned...
