During rabbinical school I spent one summer doing a unit of clinical pastoral education at a hospital in Michigan. My reasoning for spending that time in a hospital setting was twofold. First, I needed to get over some of my fear of the hospital environment and learn how to bring the most comfort to the most vulnerable.
Welcome to the first video in the Parenting by the Parshah series. Parenting is making order out of chaos. Alphabetizers and color coordinators, this video is for you!
Yesterday was a difficult day. Even’t if I hadn’t been accidentally woken at 5:30 am by an ill-timed Siri alarm, it still would have been a day filled with emotional extremes.
Once again, we are shocked and saddened as a nation. Once again, our halls of education, meant to be a sanctuary from the worst of the world, are bloodied. Once again, we hear expressions of outrage and calls for new legislation aimed at preventing or reducing the periodic and murderous violence that erupts in our schools and colleges.
I often talk about parenthood on my blog, but I wanted to create a series dedicated specifically to parenting lessons in the Torah. Welcome to Parenting by the Parshah. Look for the first video, Bereshit, next week!
What a pleasure it was to celebrate my first high holidays with this striving community. I want to take a moment to thank the vast number of individuals who worked diligently behind the scenes to ensure that things flowed smoothly during our Days of Awe.
You probably already know one of my favorite parts of my day is the time I take to walk. When I got a Fitbit last year as a gift, it spurred me on even more. Here’s the catch: I don’t walk on a treadmill or on a track in the gym.
