Inspiration 1711 articles

Depending on how you look at it, I am either very smart or very lazy. Facing the wedding of my fifth child and the concomitant entertaining that comes with such an...

Jews tend to be peddlers, even when we have no things to sell. Yesterday, I met a young man who was trying to make a deal, a shidduch. He was sufficiently...

The Three Weeks between the 17th of Tammuz and the 9th of Av are a time of special mourning for the Jewish people, but it’s not always possible to conjure up...

Sometimes, when she lay in bed exhausted, but wide awake with worry, when her mind would race thinking about the latest electricity bill, the late camp payment, the roofer who charged...

Some life lessons I’ve picked up since my company, Bear Stearns, disappeared--making me a “kollel boy.”

The saddest noise, the sweetest noise, The maddest noise that grows, The birds, they make it in the spring At night’s delicious close. Between the March and April line, That magical...

What do sinks have to do with Mashiach? The answer is: a lot! Needless to say, the month of Av is not a time for undue flippancy. It is heavy with...

Orthodontics was his profession of choice. His first smile into the mirror the day his braces were removed convinced him that he too wanted to bring smiles to peoples faces. Diligently...

We reached our destination, but I was not ready to get out. “Please just leave the meter running and keep talking,” I asked my cab driver. Those words are a dream...

It is disconcerting for a parent to watch as our kids rush headlong towards adulthood. But this weekend I looked around and it is as though someone hit the fast-forward button...