My spiritual journey began later in life and was cemented by my surviving a car crash on November 25, 2023. This led me to question why I survived, which I believe is to share with others through writing about my ongoing spiritual journey. My spiritual journey is seen through the lens of my Jewish beliefs (traditional as well as Kabbalah) which will be reflected in my musings and prayers, though the latter will be generic. I will use this space on our website to post my writi

The basis for this saying is often attributed to the work of an ancient Greek philosopher, Heraclitus. One can also find this in Rabbi Rami Shapiro’s translation of Ecclesiastes (one of the books of the Bible) where he talks of everything being impermanent (his translation incorporates both Jewish and Buddhist philosophy). Given this ancient wisdom, why are we resistant to change? The world around us is constantly changing. A common symbol of this is the caterpillar changin

Our typical question is “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” The first question we should be asking is “Why in every creation story is man created last?” Recently I was prompted to ask that question when, during a short hike, I saw a large rock nestled between trees. Clearly the trees adapted by growing around the rock, because the rock was there first. Creation stories typically talk about the earth being created (that includes the rocks), then vegetation, then animal