Columns
It’s all a matter of perspective
Hillel GoldbergMar 13, 2014
The story goes that in medieval Europe two people were laying bricks, and were asked, what are you doing? One said, Im laying bricks, cant you see? The...
It takes two wings to fly
Hillel GoldbergMar 06, 2014
HOLINESS comes in twos. I first became aware of this in reference to Shabbos. But I became doubly aware (if thats not a redundancy) last week as our son and...
A ‘potluck’ Purim
Tehilla R. GoldbergMar 06, 2014
I have never smoked pot nor experimented with any other drug and am certainly against promoting recreational drugs of all kinds. And I confess this is not your average...
Pebbles from heaven
Yisroel & Shloime EngelMar 06, 2014
Dear Tzviling, Thank you for your column. I have a question regarding wealth. I grew up in a home of modest means. I was always taught that wealth can be […]
It was the music
Tehilla R. GoldbergFeb 27, 2014
In today’s day and age when the latest article about a new food, exercise or other gimmick supposedly holds the secret to long life, a remarkable lady, Alice Herz...
Extraterrestrial Jew
Hillel GoldbergFeb 27, 2014
THE Talmud says, quoting Rav: Adam, the first man, reached from one end of the world to the other. . . . When he sinned, Hashem placed His hand on […]
Love Your Brain
Tehilla R. GoldbergFeb 20, 2014
Going in to watch “Crash Reel,” I hadn’t known a thing about it. As the documentary by Lucy Walker, starring Kevin Pearce, a one time Olympian hopeful raised on...
My grandmother’s candlesticks
Amy LedermanFeb 20, 2014
I entered the classroom of 32 seventh graders at the worst time imaginable — seventh period on a Friday afternoon, the weekend before winter break. I knew the deck...
Flight of the alone to the Alone
Hillel GoldbergFeb 20, 2014
WHAT is prayer? It is the defeat of the illusion of human community. For the human condition, as the Greek philosopher Plotinus said, is the flight of the alone to...
Where is G-d?
Hillel GoldbergFeb 13, 2014
WHERE is G-d? The Kotzker Rebbe answered, wherever you let Him in. Its a poignant response, but it really answers a different question, where is G-dliness?...