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Here is one thing anti-Zionists get right 🇮🇱

The Zionist story didn’t start in 1948.

But here’s what they miss. Not 1948 on the Gregorian calendar. 1948 on the Jewish calendar.

That’s the year Avraham was born. And that’s where the story really begins. A promise, a relationship, a direction for a people.

So yes, there isn’t much “histo...

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Do converts to Judaism have free will?

On a practical level, of course. Every person chooses their path.

But there’s a deeper layer that people who have gone through this recognize. When that pull is real, it doesn’t feel like a casual choice. It feels like something inside you is already moving.

Chassidic teachings speak about a spark that bur...

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Let’s talk about reincarnation and the Holocaust.

Today is Yom HaShoah. I think about my family. People who never got to live a full life.

And somehow, I’m here.

There’s something very real about that. We carry them. In how we live, in what we build, in the fact that the story is still going.

Every Jewish life today is part of that. Some...

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On Yom HaShoah we remember the 6 million. And at the same time, I keep thinking about the survivors.

I’m a rabbi and a therapist, and their lives are the strongest message I bring into the room.

They went through hell, and somehow, they built.

Rabbi Sacks, in the name of Rabbi Jakobovits, said something powerful. Before they processed the past,...

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What is the deeper meaning of Moshe’s name?

There’s a beautiful idea that Moshe hints to an acronym, מַה שֶּׁהָיָה הָיָה, what was, was.

The Torah Moshe brings is not about getting stuck in the past. It’s about the power to begin again.

If you’re not happy with how things have been, if you feel stuck in old patterns, the message is simple. What...