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Continue reading →: Tzav – Offers Deep Insights on Leadership, Sacrifice, and Determination.
Tzav is perhaps one of the most powerful portion of the Torah that teaches important moral lessons that we can apply to our modern lives as it offered deep insight and reflections on the importance of leadership, sacrifice, and determination. In this parsha, a fire is always burning on the…
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Continue reading →: Siddhartha – A Novel
Siddhartha is a novel by German author, Hermann Hesse, first published in 1922. The book follows the journey of a young Indian man, Siddhartha, as he seeks enlightenment. I connect with this story deeply from the first time I read it at the age of 29 because it was a…
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Continue reading →: With The Shramanas – Chapter 2
Siddhartha, the main character leaves his home in search of enlightenment. He begins his journey by joining a group of wandering shamans who practice self-denial and meditation. However, he soon realizes that their rigid practices are not the answer he is seeking. After leaving them, he meets and learns from…
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Continue reading →: What is Kosher?
Keeping Kashrut is one of the most important laws in Orthodox Judaism. It was the class I attended that cemented my belief that this was the right religion as with me, everything must make sense. The practice of koshering animals is a religious ritual that is expected by the followers…
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Continue reading →: Vayikra – the importance of maintaining a strong bond with G_d through sincere prayer and proper conduct.
In Parsha Vayikra, it brings together beautiful something I deeply agree with- why gratitude, commitment and intention is important for living a life where we are excited to jump out of bed, see someone we love, or show up to work everyday and repeat that over and over again. In…
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Continue reading →: The Son of a Brahmin-Chapter 1
“Exploring the First Chapter of Siddhartha: An Introduction to the Journey of Self-Discovery” The first chapter of Siddhartha takes readers on a journey through the life of a young man, exploring his early experiences and feelings of discontentment with the world around him. Through conversations with his friend Govinda and…
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Continue reading →: The Moon’s Light On Us
I didn’t always know how the moon affected my body and mood, but I took control of my life since I became aware of it. A few years ago, I realized my mood would change during the full and new moon. My womanly body would also go through some changes.…
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Continue reading →: Finding and Shining Our Light – Diwali
While walking home from taking my son to school, I heard a song I used to sing when I was a wee little Christian girl. The lyrics that played and still play in my head as I write this is – “this little light of mine, I’m going to let…
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Continue reading →: Bereshit – Our responsibility to care for and protect this world – a gift to us.
I loved a clean sheet of paper and a freshly sharpened pencil as a child. I would carefully place the pencil’s point at precisely the place on the paper where I would draw the first line to create whatever my mind had thought of. I would create people and things…
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Continue reading →: Shoftim – The importance of justice, righteousness, and fair governance in society.
By virtue of three things, the world endures: law, truth, and peace. A video that’s gone viral on social media showed a woman sobbing to the brink of madness because her husband left her and allegedly stole from her. She hollers and asks, “why.” We are all familiar with a…
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