Trigger warning for homophobia and suicidality. If you’re queer and not in a great place mentally, maybe skip this one and come back when you’re feeling more stable. Ok. Look. I’ve written about this kind…
Eshet Chayil
When I met you, I thought that everything was going to be different. Wow… A rabbi and Ben Torah, someone who could teach me and lead a family to help me grow closer to the…
Parentified
Wtf is Ahava atzmis crap you say we have?! If you haven’t noticed, I’ll clarify, I despise your love. I hope in the future to come up with a financial amount to pay you if…
Will It Hurt?
There is something magical about the sentence “I love you”, not because of what it means, or how it makes you feel, but because when someone says “I love you”, you can tell if they…
Why I Stopped Counting Sefira
I don’t count sefirat haomer anymore. It has been three years since I last counted a full sefira cycle. For many years I did I did count, and I thought I wanted to. It was…
An Adorable Little Roadblock
I never took that dive into being one of the faithless. My faith was just… never there. When all the other kids in my school proudly put on tefillin, I was merely annoyed by yet…
Down In The Struggle
There seems to be a wisdom, a twinkle in the eye, a moment when a person knows they are selling out and selling themselves short. It’s an inner awareness that cannot be denied, it protects…