Archives of Inspiration

A Humane Approach to Thanksgiving

Dear friends: I hope this message finds you in good health and spirits. Seeing that Thanksgiving is upon us, I wanted to share thoughts on what a humane approach to Thanksgiving might be.  I’m not just talking about being kind to one another and such.  I’m talking a bit about our plan as it relates […]
6 years ago
cemetery

Why I Wrote My Own Funeral

This past summer I sought a therapeutic process of writing my own funeral.  Now I want to share why I wrote my own funeral.  I got the idea of doing this due to my experience of guiding people through the funeral process of a loved one.  When a loved one dies, the experience of urgency […]
6 years ago
Om Shalom

The Impermanence of Succot

Dear friends: I hope this message finds you well and is received in the spirit of which it is offered. I’d like to speak to the jewish perspective on impermanence, specifically because Succot begins tomorrow night and offers us a fresh view of life and the celebration of it.  Impermanence means that not all things are […]
6 years ago

As We Face the One Judge

As Yom Kippur approaches, may all of Israel have an easy and meaningful fast in facing the One Judge who holds us close to his heart. All of Israel is a term used to remind us that we are all responsible for one another.  Hence, all of Israel is one body and each of us […]
6 years ago
Yahrzeit Candle

Remembering The Dearly Departed

Remembering the dearly departed is a significant tradition amongst Jews.  It’s called Yahrzeit and is a Yiddish word meaning anniversary of a death.  Traditionally the anniversary falls on the Hebrew date, not the Gregorian date.  To commemorate the Yahrzeit, mourners light a Yahrzeit candle, which burns for 24 hours.  They say Kaddish prayer and hopefully […]
6 years ago
From the Narrow Places

From The Narrow Places

From the Narrow Places From the narrow places is an expression most widely used during the most distressful time in the Hebrew calendar.  This period of time known as “Beit hametzarim”, which means between the days of distress.  It is felt as a gradual increase of mourning customs and rituals which completes on the saddest […]
6 years ago
Life After Death 3 Powerful Lessons

3 POWERFUL LESSONS ABOUT GRIEF AND RECOVERY.

Get these 3 powerful lessons about grief and recovery now.  A few months ago I was interviewed by the very dynamic Margaret Manning, who is the global women’s leader of Sixty and Me  Her growing online community has 50,000+ women learning how to better their life after sixty.  She’s now building her latest site, LifeAfterDeath.com and […]
6 years ago
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