by Mordechai Dixler | Sep 13, 2012 | Lifeline
What has more power to change the present than crying? When someone we love begins to cry – a child, a friend, a spouse – it’s as if the world stops in its place. “What’s happened?” “You’re upset about something.”...
by Mordechai Dixler | Aug 24, 2012 | Lifeline
Yesterday, while on vacation with the family, I took a fascinating tour of George’s Furniture woodwork shop in Marietta, Pennsylvania. One of the many things that impressed and inspired me was how the craftsmen manage to use absolutely every part of the wood....
by Mordechai Dixler | Aug 10, 2012 | Lifeline
The Talmud says that a Jew is obligated to pray, based upon Deuteronomy 11:13: “serve Him with all your thoughts — Livavchem — and with all your soul.” Livavchem is a form of the Hebrew word Leiv, which is most often translated as the heart. In...
by Mordechai Dixler | Jul 26, 2012 | Lifeline
This year the ninth day of the month of Av (Tisha B’av), the day the Holy Temple in Jerusalem began to burn, falls on the Sabbath. This is a rare occurrence on the Jewish calendar and comes with a unique set of laws and observances, as the fast and traditional...
by Mordechai Dixler | Jul 5, 2012 | Lifeline
A guest who had traveled from afar once visited the saintly Chofetz Chaim, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan zt”l, and was taken aback by the Rabbi’s simple living conditions. The home was lacking the most basic furnishings! When he relayed his surprise, the...
