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The days of creation end with the words, ויהי ערב ויהי בקר, “And it was evening and it was morning.” This is the source for the idea that in Judaism, the day begins at night.

We see this with all of the special days of the…

A man once petitioned Rabbi Nosson of Breslov for a blessing to find his match. He complained that he had been seeking the right woman for many years and had still not found her. Rabbo Nosson discerned that he was slipping into despair, so he…

We live in a world where, increasingly, what we say matters.

Our conversations are more frequently over text, social media, or phone calls rather than face-to-face and that’s becoming a problem. Words on a phone screen are much more easily…

With luck, perseverance and good fortune the Gaza War may be over.  The scars of course remain, along with the repulsive and massive increase of antisemitism worldwide, to the point where it is now chic to hate Jews, and especially…

Because the first truth of being is not “thing,” but no-thing. The hidden infinity called Ein Sof is also called Ayin—Nothingness, No-thing-ness—not as negation, but as the pure unboundedness from which all boundedness can arise. From…

Something is rotten in Europe — and it is not confined to the marble halls of parliaments or the gilded corridors of palaces. The rot festers in the newsrooms — in the propaganda engines masquerading as “public broadcasting.”

From…

Like many investors, I’ve watched the stock market’s remarkable recovery since the 2022 downturn—followed by an extraordinary surge fueled by artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and a mix of broader economic forces. While I am a…

It has been almost a decade since I last wrote here. Back then my focus was technology, startups, and the curious machinery that keeps this improbable country humming. I wrote about networks and systems, about the improvisation that passes…

This week, we could finally breathe a little easier.
Finally, A circle has been closed, with a deal that saved the lives of the remaining live hostages and marked the beginning of the end of the war—and of what’s being called “the day…

There is a moment, in every new life, when breath first fills the lungs. A baby, moments after birth, gasps for air — a raw, instinctive act that signals both pain and possibility. It is the sound of life beginning. Or a diver surfacing…