God created the Earth, the sun, moon, and stars, planets, and all living creatures, including Man. He breathed the breath of life into the first Man, and took the first Woman from his rib. He spoke directly to the first Man and Woman; there was no veil yet, no wall between them. He spoke directly to the children of the first Man and Woman, and then to Noah, and then to Avraham. Yet the more mankind rejected Him, the harder it became to hear His voice. God found ways to speak to man: through...

During the Corona lockdowns in 2020, I found myself, like many others, dabbling in a small garden. It was nothing much - just a few pots and some seeds on the small patio outside of my apartment. The street just past the bushes surrounding our corner apartment smelled like exhaust and looked like any other ugly, gray suburban street in a middle-class neighborhood: small restaurants and stores in an old strip mall, a gas station across the street, and covert drug deals and drugged out homeless...

For You tested us, Oh God; You refined us as though refining silver. Tehillim/Psalms 66:10 For the past several years, I’ve observed that the most difficult struggle in life is the one we talk least about. We all speak readily to one another about our surface-level challenges – finances, family, health – and yet, the greatest battles are not external. The greatest battles are within. There is the battle of truly conquering oneself. The battle of refinement. The struggle through daily tests...