When it's stormy outside, or under fire when the bombs are falling, in other words, when life is a rocky road, a person learns very quickly who his or her true friends are. That's not the case when you're on top of the world. Then, all the fair-weather friends pop up like mushrooms after the… [Read more...]

Don’t let your child grow up like a mental couch potato. Teach children's minds to be active, not passive. Active brains have the ability to learn quickly and efficiently. The also have cogent powers of understanding and… [Read more...]

Emuna Beams is thrilled to announce the release of The Swanky Stag, the second book of our new series, Grandpa Isaac’s Stories. Visibly, these are children’s books. Yet, as you’ll see in today’s post, their message goes much deeper. Why Humility Leads to Victory: Lessons in… [Read more...]

Our grandchildren eat the fruit we plant, literally and spiritually. Spiritually speaking, when we strengthen ourselves in emuna, our spiritual fortification nourishes future generations, moving up through the family tree's tradition of parent to child just like a spiritual… [Read more...]

To maintain our emotional and spiritual health, we must look for opportunities to practice daily soul-searching and self-assessment. That way, we open a window to our souls. Let's look inside and ask ourselves why we're not… [Read more...]

A distraught teacher was having terrible disciplinary problems with a boy in his class. He sought advice from the great Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Vozner, of blessed memory...… [Read more...]

Since we love ourselves, we have a long list of mitigating circumstances to justify everything we do wrong in life. But when someone else makes the same exact mistake, we're quick to judge and condemn. So many of us have an itchy trigger finger that's all too ready to put a bullet between the other… [Read more...]

Education is not preaching – it's personal example. A child's innate sense of justice cannot stand hypocrisy and inconsistency. A parent who preaches one thing yet practices otherwise is guaranteed to obtain the opposite results. In simple English, if you live it, you can give… [Read more...]

The covert threat of emotional blackmail, which so effectively enables the blackmailer to extort whatever he or she wants from the victim, is the guilty conscience. Emotional blackmailers are grand masters in the use of this most damaging weapon. Here's how to stop… [Read more...]

Many adults today harbor deep emotional scars that never healed because of a derogatory nickname that someone gave them when they were young. If that someone was a parent, it takes a miracle to heal the insulted child's soul, who grows up with a negative self-image that's worse than a physical… [Read more...]

True friendship has a price-tag – it's called empathy, the ability to feel the other person, to know when to give a pat on the back or a word of encouragement. True friendship means that you feel when the other person needs you and you're there for them. You're not too tired or too… [Read more...]

Do we have a right to expect our children to sit through lengthy synagogue services like little tin soldiers, without moving a muscle? Do we have the right to expect anything from our children? What's the basis of effective child education rather than force-feeding our kids? In a two-minute message… [Read more...]