Friendship is one of God’s greatest gifts. It helps overcome depression, pain, sorrow, and worry. When true friendship finds a way inside your door, hold on to it as fast and as long as you can.  

Some people are in physical pain for so long it becomes their norm. What would be a normal person’s five on a physician’s silly pain scale is their one. The pain is no less real, no less devastating on their physical well-being, but it becomes as much a part of them as a scar might…

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I have always agreed with Luis that we should not be silent in the face of injustice. However, what is the right thing to do when injustice is heaped upon you? The answer of course depends on the circumstances and who else is affected by the injustice and  what effect would a reaction have —…

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Before computers, printing presses, parchment, stories passed from generation to generation by word of mouth, father to son, mother to daughter, rabbi to rabbi, etc. Although we have the wonders of technology today, still too often stories get lost. I never had time to ask my father about his time in the war, to ask…

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We all get testy at times, irritated and angry for no good reason. As we get older we might hear, “Did you take your blood pressure medicine.” When we are younger we might give being hungry or not enough sleep as a lame excuse. What’s important is that our testiness and irritated nature doesn’t become…

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