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Every time I go to synagogue with my husband and kids, one or two passages will leap off the prayer book page and touch me deeply. Here’s one I gravitated toward last Friday at Temple Beth Elohim, on the eve of my nephew’s bar mitzvah: “In this circle of hope, in the presence of the…

“Pray as if everything depends upon God; act as if everything depends upon you.” —Abraham Joshua Heschel.

“Anger does not require hostile acting out. First and foremost, it is a physiological process to be experienced. Second, it has cognitive value–it provides essential information. Since anger does not exist in a vacuum, if I feel anger it must be in response to some perception on my part. It may be a response to…

Has anything happened recently to make you feel stuck in an unpleasant place? We live in an era when so many medicines are available to help us escape hardship: drugs for sleeplessness, anxiety, to alter heartache of grief. After years of disapproving of people who use such medicines, I’m seeing that drugs may have a…
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