Generosity Week is Coming

Alan Morinis is so busy crisscrossing North America teaching the Jewish practice of Mussar that for a while last fall he hadn’t spent two Shabbats in one place since. He founded the Mussar Institute nearly a decade ago, and the …

The Heart Knows

I attended an all-day Mussar retreat in New York yesterday. (If you asking, “What’s Mussar?” take a look at my article in The Jerusalem Report magazine from a few years back.) But here was my take-away, and it comes from …

Welcome!

I’m blogging again. Two years ago, I blogged about my year of saying kaddish, a blog that’s no longer “live,” which may be symbolic, since “kaddish” is a Hebrew (or more accurately, Aramaic) word said in memory of the dead. …