Becoming a Mensch: The Spiritual Path of Mussar and Tikkun Middot
Becoming a Mensch: The Spiritual Path of Mussar and Tikkun Middot (Mussar is a thousand-year- old Jewish system for personal growth, specifically in the realm of character…
Mussar
Holy Solidarity: Lesson of the Sabbatical Year
On the morning of Friday, March 21, I ran together with my entire family in the Jerusalem Marathon. Admittedly, I ran merely the five kilometer…
No Yeshiva Deferments in the Purim Story
The fun house sideshow of ultra-Orthodox life in Israel and the New York area bursts forth every Purim, as the Haredim transform themselves into fez-wearing…
InCritical Issues: Jewish Week of Constructive Conflict
Mindfulness in Constructive Conflict
How do we make conflict productive rather than destructive, how do we use our noticing of a problem as a way to create growth rather…
InCritical Issues: 9Adar Intro and History
9 Adar: Jewish Day of Constructive Conflict
The Pardes Center for Judaism and Conflict Resolution has put together study guides for the 9Adar Project: Jewish Week of Constructive Conflict. If you use any…
The price of passion
From pages 109-112 of Relics for the Present by Levi Cooper, presented in Istanbul during January 2014 Pardes trip to Tukrey. Berakhot 12a The Jewish…
How to Greet on the Day of the Jewish Day of Constructive Conflict
The expression of blessing, as in greeting one another, is taken very seriously in Judaism. The reason is that the core of such blessing is…
Isolated in Holiness
The single most shocking and delicious snowstorm revelation is how isolated we are in Jerusalem. Our royal road, the thin Kvish Echad (Highway One) is…
