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From My NotebookBeing Whole Means Being Broken
Explores the benefit of challenges in life and how difficult situations open your eyes to becoming your best self.
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Ice Cream in a Bag
Explores what we can learn from making ice cream in a bag and the importance of always doing more each day than we did the day before.
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Learning from a Garden Salad
Explores the importance of recognizing that each person has a unique set of abilities that can shine while working together.
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Colour an Orange Blue
Explores being comfortable in who you are rather than being pressured by others.
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Leaders Create Leaders
Explores the importance of embracing leadership and knowing when to delegate responsibility.
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Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Explores what we can learn from making grilled cheese sandwiches and how it can relate to our doing our best to do the right thing.
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Explores the importance of striving to do what is right even when it isn't easy and being okay with the results.
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Knowing Who You Are
Explores the importance of knowing who you are and not being influenced by the words of others.
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Yes, Strings Attached
Explores being importance of being organized and the role of tzitis as a reminder to act appropriately.
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Seeing the Best
Explores judging others with good intentions and seeing the best in everyone.
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Counting Diamonds
Explores how important each and every person is, and importance of letting people know what they mean to you.
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A Strong Foundation
Explores the greatness of women and the important role they play in the world.
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There Are No Curses Only Blessings
Explores the different levels of love between parents and children and G-d and people.
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Sitting in the Grass
Explores life lessons we learn from our children, not being worried and instead cultivating our faith in G-d.
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Have Your Cake and Eat it Too
Explores the deliciousness of chocolate lave cake, and what how we can learn from the rich chocolatey gooey center.
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Clowning Around
Explores the disease tzaras, speaking negatively about others, how the Kohein cures tzaras, and how things aren't always what they seem.
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Flavour Your Life
Explores the uniqueness of tofu and what we can learn from the versatility of this special ingredient.
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It Would Have Been Enough
Explores the song sung on Pesach, Dayeinu, and what it means for it to 'be enough."
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If Paroh is Nice
Can someone like Pharoh (the king of Egypt who caused the Jews so much strife) change and if he did would we be willing to invite him to our house? A question…
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Spring Cleaning for the Soul
Pesach cleaning can be intense as we search how homes and aim to get rid of every piece of chametz. But what are we really trying to accomplish? Spring…
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It's the Effort that Counts
Success is not only measured by how much we achieve but by how hard we try.
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Change a Tire, Change the World
We never know the influence that a simple act of kindness will have on someone else's world. One good deed really can change the world.
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Don't Mention It
The common response when someone thanks you for doing them a favour is "don't mention it." Why don't we want them to mention it? Is there a deeper way of…
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Bring the Zoo Home
The zoo is an exciting place filled with exotic animals, live shows, and new experiences. Why is it more exciting to see a grizzly bear at the zoo than seeing…
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Charge Your Battery
Cellphones can now do so much more than just make phone calls; and yet they still need to be charged in order to be used. We are no different. In order for us…
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Behind Every Good Man
Why was the Torah first given to the women and then to the men? Women are the support system of the family and it is only with their guidance and motivation…
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Changing Inside Out
While changing our clothes might assist in our transformation, in order to have a long last change it must come from within.
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Show Your Love
Explores the importance of expressing your feelings of love to those that are close to you and how G-d wants and needs our love.
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The Right Man for the Job
Explores stepping into ourselves and becoming the person we need to be to face the challenges before us.
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Insulating the World
Explores doing our best to maintain our own values while actively doing our best to positively influence others.
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Being the Best You
Explores being the best that you can be and to work towards fulfilling the unique mission in life that only you can accomplish.
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Baking a Cake
Explores the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash (Temple), going through struggles, and how G-d gives us the obstacles is just the right proportions.
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Total Commitment
Explores the last day of Chanukah and having total commitment to actualize our potential.
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Wrestling the World
Explores the confrontation between Yaakov and Eisav, the wrestling match between Yaakov and an angel, and our own wrestling match with life's challenges.
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Climbing a Ladder
Explores the usefulness of ladders in our daily lives and the role of a spiritual ladder to reach greater spiritual heights.
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Brotherly Love
Explores the relationship between ourselves and others and the influence we can have on someone.
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Living the Good Life
Explores how we choose to face life's challenges and how that impacts our view on life.
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Turning Back time
Explores daylight savings time, our attempt to manipulate time, and the ability to go back in time and correct our mistakes.
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Home Is Where the Heart Is
Explores how you can bring your home with you where ever you go.
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Building a Puzzle
Explores how each person can accomplish great feats by starting with first working on himself. By working on ourselves one can change the world.
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Staying Balanced
Explores what we can learn from brining our car to the mechanic and the importance of staying balanced and maximizing our potential.
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Sheva Brochos with G-d
Explores our intimate relationship with G-d and why it is so special.
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A Global Symphony
Explores how each person on their contributes to the greater good. A symphony can only be complete if each person plays their part.
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I Think I Can
Explores how children are not afraid to try new things and how we should embrace our lives by not being afraid to be ourselves.
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Simply Amazing
Explores Michigan's Lake Superior University's "List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse, and General Uselessness,” the word…
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Crowning G-d King
Explores finding meaning in a car accident, realizing who is in control, accepting what happens in life and how we can learn to react positively to challenges…
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Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
Explores staying focused while pushing ourselves to reach our potential, the importance of having a cheering squad to support you, having concrete goals and a…
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Swim Big or Go Home
Explores pacing ourselves while making an effort to achieve our goals, and preparing ourselves for Rosh Hashanah.
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Behind Bars
Explores feeling imprisoned, judging others and ourselves, how to give advice to others, how to attain freedom.
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Why Am I Not Listening?
Explores what it means when children don't listen to parents, when we don't listen to ourselves, making mistakes, and how a curse turns into a blessing.
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An Attitude of Gratitude
Explores saying 'thank you,' showing appreciation to others, increasing personal happiness, why being joyful is necessary for us to fulfill our personal…
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Painted Picture Perfect
Explores fixing holes, painting, reflecting on our past, growing from our mistakes, strengthening ourselves through life's challenges, and Tisha b' Av.
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Would You Like That Supersized?
Explores living in a 'super-sized' time where everyone wants bigger and better, when is supersized really necessary, and developing a supersized love.
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The Journey is the Destination
Explores the power of storytelling and achieving our goals by reviewing the experiences in our lives that brought us to success.
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Being Number 1
Explores Snapple's grassroots campaign, fulfilling your mission in life, and striving to be the best you that you can be.
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Because I Said So
Explores how answers and reasons are influenced by our relationships with others, and how our relationship with G-d affects keeping G-d's commandments.
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A Poetic Tribute to the Lubavitcher Rebbe
A poem about the specialness of the Lubavitcher Rebbe and his influence on my life.
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Hooked on Friendliness
Explores fishing, being helpful, the contagiousness of friendliness, teaching children, Parshas Shelach, and the commandment of tzitzis.
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Game Over; Please Try Again
Explores Nintendo, playing video games, second chances, trying even when we don't succeed, Parsha Behalosecha and Pesach Sheini.