Let’s Build a Nuclear Reactor in the Backyard

Becoming an Eagle Scout, the highest-level Boy Scout, is much like stamp collecting, except that you have to do specific tasks to collect those stamps, or merit badges as they are called in Eagle-speak. There are over a hundred different areas of interest in which you can earn a badge, ranging from bugling, to dentistry,

Me Time: Be’haloscha

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Parshas Vayeshev 5786

Parshat Vayeshev תשפ”ו This week’s portion relates the events leading up to Yosef becoming the Viceroy of Egypt. Hashem had told Avraham Avinu at the ברית בין הבתרים – the covenant between the parts–that his children would be slaves for 400 years in a foreign land. The kernel of the Jewish nation needed to spend

The Anti-Stress Toolbox Parshas Vayishlach 5786

Rush hour used to be from 7:30-9:30AM and 4-6PM, but that rush hour is a relic of a time when Apple was a thing you ate, Google was a very big number, Amazon was a river, and mail was something dropped off once a day by someone in a light blue uniform. Today, rush hour

Parshas Vayishlach 5786

The Ramban prefaces his commentary to the second book of the Torah, Shemot, by writing. השלים הכתוב ספר בראשית שהוא ספר היצירה בחדוש העולם ויצירת כל נוצר, ובמקרי האבות כולם שהם כעין יצירה לזרעם, מפני שכל מקריהם ציורי דברים לרמוז להודיע כל העתיד לבא להם Scripture has concluded the book of Bereshit, which is the

The Turkey Revolution

Did I ever tell you about the time I was kidnapped by a group of radical turkeys? It was definitely one of the crazier times of my life, and something I generally avoid talking about because I’m still suffering from the PTSD, but my therapist says that sharing the story can lessen the trauma, and