Ruth Schapira
What’s Your Reality?
We live in a tangible and physical world, and it is the very nature of our surroundings that creates automatic obstacles in connecting...
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Can we be commanded to love?
Ahavah ~ Love From a young age, we are taught to recite the Shema, saying "And you shall love God, your God..." But can we be commanded...
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Soul versus Ego
A story told from the soul perspective is “the story beneath the ego story, the one with the thread of truth running through it..." ~...
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More bad news? What Judaism says:
I am not sure how, if I didn't have a spiritual practice, I would get through the day after a dose of daily news. Even though I severely...
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The Hidden Meaning of Responsibility
Responsibility, Achrayut / אחריות is one of the character traits that a person focuses on while practicing Mussar and engaging in...
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Just one thing we don't think about...
Expanding our thinking beyond the physical.
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Egoism versus Altruism
When we think of the word egotistical, it often has negative connotations. However, it is interesting to note that over time, our culture...
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Finding Sanctuary
The physical space that encloses us and our prayers is often exquisitely beautiful and majestic, speaking to a different realm entirely....
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Sorry! j/k, lol....
In this era of constantly expanding communications we simultaneously contracting understanding.
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Accepting Missteps
How tolerant are we of our own mistakes? Do we forgive others more easily than we forgive ourselves? Should we hold ourselves in contempt...
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Your Light of Wisdom
Our days are rather filled "up" with day-to-day undertakings, and sometimes we barely get in all the activities we schedule. So where and...
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The Spiritual Steps of the Omer
This year, I am involving myself more personally and seriously than ever before in the counting of the Omer, the period of time between...
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The Jewish Meaning of Happiness
Happy. It's often a response [I just want them to be happy] to the question "What do you want for your children?" Being happy is what our...
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Shabbat is an Island Escape
Every week, I get to imagine the world as it should be. As Friday night approaches, I look forward to the total disconnect I will have...
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What Tikkun Olam really means
Tikkun Olam, תיקון עולם, literally "Repair the World" is a Jewish concept that barely needs definition. Showing up in many places, it is...
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Your soul is speaking, are you listening?
Aren't I the only one here? What's this business about me, a soul and all this spirituality stuff? There's a lot of talk about soul (not...
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I wonder who atheists thank?
The saying “there are no atheists in foxholes” presumes that once under the threat of death, the most avowed atheist will plead to God...
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Why should I change?
How different am I this week than I was the week before? The chameleon has it relatively easy. Spending not too much energy, he gets a...
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Sacred Relationships
When we encounter another individual truly as a person, not as an object for use, we become fully human. Martin Buber The middle-aged...
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spirited prayer from an unlikely source
Several years ago, on a lazy Sunday morning toward the end of a weekend getaway, my husband and I were strolling down the main street in...
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