The Hike of Life
I start at the base Think ahead to my needs A bathroom pit stop Full water bottle Sunhat and layers All set to go The map shows the trail...
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Shternie Bell
- May 19
- 2 min
Power of Youth
Although the word cocoon does not quite seem to be a fitting description for teenagehood, the truth is that adolescence is a time when...
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Shternie Bell
- May 12
- 2 min
Whose G-d Is It?
Children's minds are a wonder, so impressionable, trusting and open. In Pirkei Avot Elisha says "Studying when young is like writing on...
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Shternie Bell
- May 5
- 3 min
Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai
This upcoming Tuesday we will celebrate a very famous and special sage from the Talmudic era, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. Lag Ba'omer, the...
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Shternie Bell
- Apr 29
- 2 min
Expansion, Contraction & Harmony
Last week, I introduced the concept of finding and working on the Midot and our emotional world. You might have seen the Kabbalistic Tree...
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Shternie Bell
- Apr 21
- 2 min
From the Forest Itself
"From the forest itself comes the handle for the axe". This quote is originally from the Talmud and is also the opening line of the song...
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Shternie Bell
- Apr 21
- 2 min
When Captive becomes Liberator
This week is called "The Great Shabbat" and is always the Shabbat before Passover. The reason for this distinction is to mark two events...
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Shternie Bell
- Mar 24
- 1 min
Month of Miracles
Yesterday was Rosh Chodesh, the start of the month of Nissan. It's a month of many firsts. First month of the year biblically, our birth...
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Shternie Bell
- Mar 10
- 1 min
Regards from Jerusalem
I've had several cities I've called home Montreal first, and close after New York which we visited every few months and where Yanky and I...
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Shternie Bell
- Feb 24
- 2 min
The Leaf and The Worm
Last week I was in JFK airport just before 6am For my 7:30am flight to SFO. I got in line for security and stood behind a couple. They...
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Shternie Bell
- Feb 3
- 3 min
Showing Up
Yesterday I had the privilege of attending the bris of Inbal and Avi Sadi's newborn baby boy. Mazel Tov and congratulations to the whole...
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Shternie Bell
- Jan 27
- 2 min
Thresholds
A fetus floating in the bliss of the womb A seed burrowed in the soft damp earth A butterfly still in its cocoon All of us wrapped in...
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Shternie Bell
- Jan 20
- 3 min
Egypt of the Mind
What is the intersection between slavery and freedom, the nervous system and Moshe, history and the present? Last week we started the...
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Shternie Bell
- Jan 13
- 3 min
Magnolias
In November 2019, we signed a lease for the home that we are currently living in. After signing the lease we stopped by the house. In the...
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Shternie Bell
- Jan 6
- 3 min
A Tribute to Liesel
From our home right off Eureka, there are only two ways to turn; east up toward the hill or west down toward the water. This week I noted...
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Shternie Bell
- Dec 16, 2022
- 2 min
What Lurks in the Shadows
Last week I wrote about the need for light in times that are dark and the power that even a little bit has. Today I want to delve into...
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Shternie Bell
- Dec 9, 2022
- 2 min
Antidote to Darkness
Darkness is a part of the human experience. The first act of creation was separating between dark and light; night and day. How, when,...
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Shternie Bell
- Dec 2, 2022
- 3 min
Despair vs Hope
On Tuesday evening a terrible tragedy occurred on the Virgin Islands. The Federman’s have been serving the Jewish community in St. Thomas...
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Shternie Bell
- Nov 25, 2022
- 2 min