A person must learn to function in two types of situations. Most everyone can function in favorable times, when life is looking up. Happy are the spiritually courageous who can function in trying times, when things are looking… [Read more...]

If Netflix could reproduce even a small portion of the drama in this week's Psalms, they'd break all box-office records. No screenwriter could imagine how King David, a hostage with no dream of escape, finally made his way to… [Read more...]

If you're past forty, don't let anyone discourage you. There's much you can do to become a new parent once again, or even a parent for the first time. Oftentimes, it's so much simpler than conventional medicine and Big Pharma will let you think it… [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...]

All over the world - between wars, natural disasters and political unrest - people lack a clue as to what's happening to them, especially when they are decent people living decent lives. How do we cope when something painful happens to us, especially when we can neither see nor understand what the… [Read more...]

The evil inclination gets its vitality from the spiritually-contaminated blood in the left side of the heart. A special type of teshuva, which we learn in today's lesson, can rid the heart of such blood and starve the evil inclination. This is a key to attaining humility, spiritual health and… [Read more...]

A soul feels parched and stifled when it lacks Divine light. It also feels dull and unexpressive. King David provides a triple-strength remedy to rejuvenate the soul. You'll feel so good that you'll soon be singing your own new… [Read more...]

The tightness of your skirt or trousers is a much better indication of fat loss than the bathroom scale is. Stay away from crash diets that offer quick results of weight loss. So, instead of losing weight, let's talk about losing body fat, and doing so responsibly. Here are five easy ways to do… [Read more...]

Everyone questions whether a person is worthy of the honor he or she receives from other people, but no one questions Divine-granted honor. Rebbe Nachman teaches that the only way to attain Divine honor is through teshuva, or penitence. The key to repentence is silence, worth its weight in… [Read more...]

What do you do when you're pinned down in a nasty crossfire? How does it feel when bombs are exploding all around you? What do you do when you look at your watch and calculate that your life expectancy is lesson than a minute? Such a picture is amazingly similar to King David's predicament… [Read more...]

Boris lost his leg in a fierce battle in Gaza City six weeks ago, but he came out alive. His other crew members lost their lives. Yesterday, while visiting the Rehabilition Center of the Tel Hashomer Hospital outside of Tel Aviv, Boris shared his miraculous story with me, about the miracle that… [Read more...]

Why hasn't Israel been able to eradicate Hamas in over 4 months of fighting? What's the common denomenator between Iran's terrorist proxies that are fighting Israel from Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen? Is total war imminent on all Israel's borders? Today's Emuna News… [Read more...]