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...]

Emuna-filled negotiations mean that the businessperson believes in all the Torah's laws of commerce. Such a person will never swindle or shortchange a client or customer. They won't charge for hours they didn't work or for services they didn't provide. What's more, they'll never lack what they… [Read more...]

When we view current events through eyes of emuna, we see the same phenomenal patterns evident in both the Ukraine and in Israel. We learn why nations and individuals win and lose wars. We also learn what true power is and that Moshiach is fast on the… [Read more...]

Avraham Bell didn't let his second-class status as a black boy in the segregated U.S. South of the sixties to extinguish his dreams. He excelled as an athlete and as a musician. He was an honor student at Ohio State and went on to do an MBA at Arizona. An exquisite artist, he now pours his passion… [Read more...]

The Creator doesn't do anything without a reason. The fact that He put you on earth means that the world cannot exist without you. If you compete with or compare yourself to anyone, you can't be focused on your life's mission. Here's how and… [Read more...]

Here's one of the greatest comeback stories ever. A headbanger deep into drugs, booze and heavy metal morphs into a pious Torah scholar and a master artisan, the world's only Chassidic luthier. Meet the amazing Z.Z. Ludwick, who we nicknamed the Chassidic… [Read more...]

An adequate income doesn't depend on the amount of money one earns, but on the quality of the money that one earns. When our money is clean of such transgressions as dishonesty, short-changing and slander, it carries a blessing of adequacy. See for… [Read more...]

She's incredible. One of less than ten women in the entire USA who is a 7th degree blackbelt and Taekwondo Grand Master. The only Jewish woman in the world with that distinction and a mother of six as well. She was a Pan Am Games gold medalist and a US Olympic hopeful who gave up a million-dollar… [Read more...]

Here's a brief but especially important lesson in marital peace, designed predominantly for the man of the family. A couple came to me for marital counseling. She was starving for attention but he complained that he had to work overtime for his spendthrift wife, who "happens" to own 350 pairs of… [Read more...]

The miser was all alone, for he shuddered of feeding a wife and family, so he bought a beautiful Bolivian macaw that could talk, sing and give him companionship. A parable about… [Read more...]