Nina Amir's Thoughts on Human Potential, Personal Growth and Practical Spirituality
Today I weeded another section of my extremely large garden. Every spring it becomes totally overgrown with weeds. If I’m not quick, they become shoulder high or taller and go to seed. This year, I got to the job too late. Actually, I have way too many other things going on in my life to [...]
Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time at my computer early in the morning. I don’t mean at 6 a.m. I mean at 12:30 a.m. and at 1 a.m. and at 2 a.m. My days are so filled with marking things off my to-do list, handling emails and phone calls, social networking for business, [...]
Feeling joyous on Shabbat constitutes a great mitzvah (commandment or good deed) in Judaism. No matter your circumstances, you must be joyous on Shabbat. Plus, according to Rebbe Nachman, it’s impossible to feel a connection to God unless you can experience joy. Indeed, mitzvot, or commandments, are supposed to connect us to the Divine, and, we [...]
The holiday of Shavuot begins this year on the evening of May 28th. I started thinking about the holiday, it’s meaning and how to celebrate it more meaningfully when I saw a photo of my old rabbi from Congregation Etz Chaim in Lomard, Il, dressed as Moses and holding a staff and the tablets with [...]
It’s been a while since I posted anything about change, but today this video below arrived in my email box not once but twice, and I saw it on Facebook. So, I watched it not once but twice. People around the world are singing about one love, one heart…one God…in an effort to create change [...]
Here’s an interesting look at how actor Will Smith approaches life and manifestation. He sees life as the art of alchemy: changing lemons into lemonaide, if you will, just like his grandmother advised. This isn’t far off from the Law of Attraction, which may be what he is alluding to without ever saying it directly. [...]
I feel my life swirling somewhat out of control. Sometimes out of control seems like a good thing, like when you can let go and enjoy a water slide, experiencing the speed and the excitement of simply seeing where you end up. Other times it’s a scary thing, like driving down a mountain with no [...]
Mother’s Day represents a wonderful idea turned into another overly commercialized holiday that tends to be pretty empty at best. I admit that most people do honestly want to remember and appreciate their mother’s, but the way in which they do so could be improved. For Jews, Mother’s Day is just another secular holiday that [...]
Do you believe things happen for a reason? I do. More often than not, when something happens in my life, it isn’t long before I can see why. And when I undertand the reason why something happened – whether that “something” was good or bad – I get a sense that God has a hand [...]
Builders working near the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland found a message in a bottle written by seven former prisoners and buried in a cement wall. These men left a simple message written in pencil: Just their names, the numbers that had been tattooed on their arms, and their home towns in [...]
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