I’ve been working with a coach on experiencing pleasure. It’s not that I haven’t experienced it at all, but it was few and far between, and I did not enjoy my day-to-day existence.
I can probably say I started experiencing joy for the first time about a year ago.
My default...
Growing up, in school, we'd be reading the same page 40 times, when the Rabbi would stop the class for a spot check. If you had lost your place, you'd be publicly shamed - yelled out, or sent out of the classroom.
We were reminded that in the olden...
Some run towards the fire, Some run from it
Some ride towards the end.
Head held high, staunchly gripping the handlebars.
Others try to speed away from it.
Some honk.
Some would never honk.
Some prefer to experience it from the ass the of the car in front of them 160mph
Some are white knuckling...
Even More Freidom
Chapter #4: Good and Evil
When I became bar mitzvah, things got intense. I knew that everything until then had been child’s...
Anyone Can be a Perpetrator
The way I was raised, race, peoplehood, and identity were intertwined with ethics and morals.
In Teachings
It started...
Chapter #11: Mitzpeh
Mitzpeh yericho was my only exposure to the National Religious community in Israel.
Being charedi, I half admired...
