by Mordechai Dixler | Sep 27, 2018 | Lifeline
We’ve all become amateur meteorologists. In the northeastern United States the weather during the past week has ranged from cloudy to fog to rain, with rain having more than a fair share. Under normal circumstances, we would stay inside under shingled roofs, and...
by Mordechai Dixler | Sep 17, 2018 | Lifeline
Yom Kippur is tomorrow night. What happens on this, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar? “Kippur” is often translated as atonement — to make reparation for bad deeds, and restore a relationship damaged by those offenses. That is a good description...
by Mordechai Dixler | Sep 6, 2018 | Lifeline
One restless night, Benny, who was having trouble making a living, had a vivid dream. His dream showed him, in precise detail, the whereabouts of a stuffed backpack with two million dollars cash, at the bottom of a dumpster on the Virginia shore. He woke from his...
by Mordechai Dixler | Aug 30, 2018 | Lifeline
“How could you forget? You knew we arranged to meet for coffee at 1:30 today!” “Really — it just slipped my mind. I’m sorry. I just forgot.” “What do you mean you just forgot?” “I don’t know. My memory...
by Mordechai Dixler | Aug 23, 2018 | Lifeline
I was about 15 years old when I lost a Siddur (prayer book) on a backpacking trip near the summit of New Hampshire’s Mt. Washington, the highest peak in the Northeastern United States. It must have fallen out of my pocket at a pit-stop along the hike. After my...
by Mordechai Dixler | Aug 16, 2018 | Lifeline
We’re told in this week’s Torah portion that when a murder victim is discovered, the elders of the city closest to the site where the body was found gather and say “Our hands did not spill this blood, and we were not witness to it (Deut 21:7).”...
