AM Inspiration

Its that time of year again. The time of year when we all scramble. Scramble to fix everything we did wrong the whole year in one week. After all, Chazal tell us that its possible. Today i can do teshuva for all the Wednesdays of the year. Its a daunting and overwhelming task. How is it even possible to do that? If I am perfect today...will it make all the past Wednesdays perfect? Is it a superimposed image? does it replace them? How does it work? That i cannot profess to know. But one thing I do know...it would be foolish of me to ignore the opportunity. The Rambam says that we are to consider ourselves as if we are " bein onim " middle of the rd..neither tzaddikim or reshaim, and must use this week to do teshuva so that we will be worthy of being written in the book of life. It is not enough to just do more mitzvot to push us over onto the "good" side. It is only the "act" of teshuva that will bring us a favorable judgment. I was thinking about wha...

Your Inner Pasta Everyone has an Inner Pasta that  defines their very Being. EMBRACE    your Inner Pasta and you will always be HAPPY straight, narrow-minded, predictable spaghetti curly-wurly, never-knows-the-time-of-day fusilli showy, bowy, ooh-look-at-me-aren't-I-wonderful farfalle flat, floppy, yeah-whatever, can't-be-bothered tagliatelle large, thick (and ultimately stuffed) cannelloni Do-what-you-want-to-me-then-cover-me-with-cheese macaron i Is it not interesting how we label people. Personality quizzes tell us what kind of shoes we should wear. Aptitude tests tell us what fields we should go into. Our families define us, our neighborhoods define us, out schools, our friends, our clothes..it seems that the list is endless. So many things.  Some of them are fun and harmless..what kind of pasta are you? Really? Does it matter? Does it have any kind of truth to it? You tell me. Does ...