Nina Amir's Thoughts on Human Potential, Personal Growth and Practical Spirituality
I’m having the hardest time getting my friend Dalana Castrell’s Jewish-themed artwork to post to my previous blog post. So, I thought I’d post a video of her speaking about her artwork-unfortunately not her Jewish-themed artwork-on PBS. This way you can get a sense of who she is. Dalana also makes crystal jewelry that looks [...]
Over a decade ago my husband became a Jew by Choice, which means he converted to Judaism. However, at the time, I vaguely remember someone-maybe the rabbi-telling me that non-Jews don’t really “convert” to Judaism. They actually just make an “affirmation of” Judaism. My friend Reb Yitzi Miller told me basically the same thing the [...]
Today I was reading a blog about this week’s parshah and came upon a teaching from Rav Kook, the former chief rabbi of Israel. He said the moment you were born is the exact moment that God decided the world could no longer function without you. So, your moment of conception had to be predestined and, [...]
I read Dwyer Gunn’s Freakonomics column in The New York Times today. I don’t normally read business-related articles, but someone specifically told me to read this one. I actually found it quite interesting. (Interesting enough not only to write about it here but also to write about it in my Examiner.com column today.) This column contains an interview [...]
Tonight, as I write this blog post, the full moon has risen–the full moon that marks the darkest period of the year. For many people, December feels like the darkest period of the year–emotionally and psychologically. The Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year, occurs in the Northern Hemisphere on December 21st. For these people, [...]
One of the first metaphysical or spiritual lessons I learned came down to five words: What you focus on expands. This lesson represents the crux of what now people call the Law Attraction, deliberate creation and conscious creation. I write about it often, and I’ve even published a booklet and e-book on the topic, called [...]
Just as the termites and beetles are consuming the wood on my house, life has been consuming me…or at least my time. I’m frustrated by the fact that work, kids (and their needs), physical therapy for my knee, and a variety of other things are taking up all my time and attention, leaving me little [...]
Just a short post today to make note of a special event in which all change agents might want to participate–Jewish or not: Climate Healing Shabbat and International Day of Climate Action. On October 24, Jews all over the world read Parshat Noah, the the biblical story of Noah, the flood, the ark, and the [...]
Do you have faith in God? If not, why? Does your lack of faith constitute a sin? On Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish Year, the Day of Repentance, we contemplate faith. This past summer while I as at the Aleph Kallah, author Arthur Kurzweil taught me that the “Jewish way of holiness [...]
Ever wonder why you keep turning over a new leaf-the same leaf-year after year? Ever wonder why you keep asking for forgiveness-for the same sins-year after year? Ever wonder why your targets never change even though you keep resetting them and trying harder to hit a bull’s eye-the same bull’s eye-year after year? On the [...]
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