Nina Amir's Thoughts on Human Potential, Personal Growth and Practical Spirituality
Chanukah celebrates miracles–the miracle of a small army defeating a large one, of a small jug of oil that should only have burned for one day lasting eight days instead. This year Chanukah and Christmas fall during the same week. Christmas is about miracles,too–the miraculous birth of Jesus. It doesn’t really matter if you believe [...]
Have you ever had a time in your life when something just felt like a struggle? You thought you were on the right path, but obstacles just kept rising up in front of you and causing you to question if you were doing the right thing? I had a time like this just this past [...]
Have you ever heard the saying, “Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it”? Sometimes the wish is fulfilled in usual ways. You have to be open to seeing the wish fulfilled no matter in what form it appears and to receive it even if it comes in a shape you didn’t [...]
The Kabbalists talk a great deal about the “light.” Through our actions we draw this Divine light into the world, thereby, increasing the light—or we push the light away, cover it up, and diminish its presence. In the Zohar, the mystical text of Kabbalah, there is a teaching that says that everything is new when [...]
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, [...]
For most Jews, it feels difficult to get into the Chanukah spirit when the whole world seem so intent on getting into the Christmas spirit. Everywhere you turn, you see Christmas decorations, sales, lights, articles, candy… It’s almost impossible to walk into a store, doctor’s office or non-Jewish friend’s house without hearing Christmas music, not [...]
As my daughter left this morning to attend Easter Sunday services with her non-Jewish boyfriend, I thought about what she might take away from that service. I know she won’t be thinking about Easter from a personal growth standpoint as I do. And, despite my own Jewish leanings and upbringing, as always, I look at [...]
Last week when I was in Westport, CT, speaking about how to move through fear, I said that we all have to realize that its a miracle that we exist day to day on what Rebbe Nachman of Breslov called the “very narrow bridge.” That bridge represents our lives. Every day we walk on that [...]
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