by Linda Cohen | Featured, Lovingkindness Challenge, Mindfulness, mitzvahs, Resources
It’s February 1st! I don’t remember loving this month as a kid as much as I do now. Perhaps choosing to get married on February 14th has something to do with it. There is a celebratory mood in the air in February and it’s special to have our...
by Linda Cohen | mitzvahs, Musings, What now?
Compassion, love and mitzvahs. That’s what I am hoping we can all work towards today. Election day 2016. It’s been a long election season and I know I am tired of all the rhetoric, the negativity, the hate. I want to move forward with compassion and...
by Linda Cohen | Ideas, mitzvahs, Musings, Resources
Today is my anniversary. I’ve been married for 23 years. As we celebrate this year, it feels like recently we know both people getting divorced even after the 20 year mark and younger folks asking us how we are doing it. We think there are a couple of really...
by Linda Cohen | Birthday Kindnesses, mitzvahs
May was always a month that we celebrated my mom. We observed Mother’s Day together and my mom’s birthday fell on the last day of the month, May 31st. After my father died I was aware that the first year of holidays and birthdays are often...
by Linda Cohen | mitzvahs, Musings
We use the term, a pain in the neck, to say that something is causing us trouble or is the source of our unhappiness. Sometimes a pain in the neck or a pain in the back in my case or even a terrible cold can teach us something important. I am not sure if this is true...
by Linda Cohen | mitzvahs
This Friday night, we begin our eight-day holiday of Passover. I have written more about this Jewish holiday previously on my blog in this post and this one where I shared a simple recipe for chicken and matzah ball soup. During the Seder we tell the story of...
