My time in Maximum Security Prison…Parshas Mikeitz/Shabbos Chanukah

Yesterday, I was sent to prison. Not by the judicial system, but by the Aleph Institute, a phenomenal organization that looks after the spiritual and physical needs of a number of isolated populations, most notably: the incarcerated, the military, and the institutionalized. I was sent to go light the menorah for the Jewish prisoners living

Chanukah 5786

What am I? Our first inclination regarding each of these collective properties of the phenomenon in question, is to immediately say that no such physical thing could possibly exist, defying, as it does, every rule that we observe in nature. Once, however, you come upon this riddle’s answer, you will see that every item is

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