I came across a piece in Michtav M’Eliyahu speaking about something that I think about often, and I took it as a sign that I should share it. So let’s learn through this together.

Rav Dessler opens with a statement that "a person needs to make sure that the ikkur of his avodas Hashem takes place ...

I've been thinking a lot lately about investments. Not financial investments (though if anyone knows of any interesting opportunities, I’m open)— spiritual ones. It always seemed to me like a type of magic- putting in a certain amount of money, or effort, and getting back outsized rewards. 

Good in...

Good morning friends! 

The period of sefiras ha’omer is coming to a close, and for our final installment of this three part series on practical Ahavas Yisroel (you can check out the first two parts here and here), we are going to be taking a look at the remaining 5 points in our 10 part plan. The...

Morning friends!

Weirdly, I did not receive a glut of emails from you telling me how you've tried my first step of Ahavas Yisroel (see: speak well of and to fellow jews here). I’m just going to assume that you were all too busy to write, but you’ve been speaking only good things all over the p...

Happy back to routine everyone!!

The Nisivos Shalom speaks about how the Yom Tov of Pesach, in and of itself, is an incomplete chag (not something one is thrilled to hear after all the cleaning, cooking, serving, celebrating and then putting it all away). As a matter of fact, he points out the fact...

May I tell you something, as a friend? 

You could really be working more efficiently. I know, I know, it’s the last thing you want to hear right now, with the lists growing and up to your ears in pesach prep. But I’m only trying to help. So I’ll point this out:

There is a particular kind of dist...

What’s Missing from the Frum Tech Conversation

There is real work to be done.

And yet, somehow, the conversation keeps getting hijacked.

On one end, we hear: All tech is completely assur. Get it out. Shut it down. There is no safe way to live with it.

On the other end: All tech is fine. Just b...

May I use you to flesh out something that I’m trying to get more clear about?

I’ve been learning a lot about a subtle but transformative idea: resentful giving is not actually giving. And in truth, it does not benefit either party.

When one gives (or gives in), because they feel like they have no ...

There are so many moments when I realize that the ideas that shape me most are not new discoveries, but truths I’ve known for years—and somehow still forget. This week, I found myself returning to one of those foundational teachings, a Mishnah we all learned long ago. Rav Dessler’s insight into th...

Dear Friends,

Here’s a thought: I’m pretty sure we would all agree that if there was a room of fifty post-sem girls and they were asked what they’re looking for in a shidduch, we would hear the same basic answers repeated again and again. The same buzzwords. The same checklist. I don’t know if I ...

Anyone else not that looking forward to the next few weeks?

The quick lift of chanukah is so far behind us we can barely see it, and the days ahead stretch out before us like a quiet, wide-open field covered in dirty snow. No yamim tovim—just the ordinary, daily rhythm. When we were in school at le...

Dear friends,

There was a period in my life when, for one reason or another, I was feeling a bit directionless. I wasn’t sure what I needed to work on, or where my energy was meant to go. So I did the only thing that seemed to make sense at the time: I threw out all my makeup, went shopping, and bo...