Inspiration 1711 articles

Slideshow of a Sojourn How would I have known about Gan Eden if I had not seen it with my own eyes? It was a torrential expanse of beauty that hit...

I had a lot of fun writing the article “Pass On Passover? Not On Your Life!” which appeared on on the Orthodox Union’s website, www.ou.org, shortly before Pesach this year. It...

The night before I receive the phone call that divides my life into before and after, my face swells in an allergic reaction to a skin cream, then blisters and chaps....

The journey towards a life of Torah and mitzvos is paved with challenges and unexpected inspirational moments; decisions and changes merging into the creation of a new reality – a Torah-true...

Is this Mine? Racheli S. is the daughter of a friend of mine. She told this story to her mother, who told it to me. Only in Israel…. Racheli was sitting...

I might have liked to start by saying that it was a mild and clear evening, the stars visible even in the Manhattan sky, or that it was chilly and I...

It’s my good fortune to have one friend with an outrageous talent for seeing the world through spiritual glasses. Underneath her gaze, meaningless events, mundane non-events, come to life as messages...

You can croon all you want about the 50’s, but mostly you’d be singing through your ears. For all the gray-flannel comfort you might take in those days — in the...

She made her debut at our home shortly before the commencement of Shabbat. Sweet and youthful-looking, petite, newly engaged and adorned in a white coat, she entered our lives. That Shabbat...

Suri wandered through the narrow aisles of the makolet, peering disconsolately at the unfamiliar items. She picked up a package of crackers and examined it carefully. She replaced it on the...