by Admin | Sep 13, 2018 | Articles, Growing Each Day, Hashkafa (philosophy), Humans of JPULSE, Inspirational Stories, JP Katz, Personal Growth, Philosophy, Rabbi JP Katz, The Journal, Video, Video Blogs, Vids, Yom Kippur
Visiting with the insightful. “This illness that I’ve had, its given me time to reflect. I mean, here I am at 80 years old thinking of how to change. It’s not as if its so much out of necessity. Its as if G-d has given me this gift of this time to...
by Admin | Sep 9, 2018 | Articles, High Holidays, Rabbi JP Katz, Rosh Hashanah, The Journal, Video, Vids, Yom Kippur
Every Jew is an entire world. On friday I decided to walk a few blocks instead of the usual jump in the car and go. I figured that I would make some phone calls on the way and enjoy the walk since I haven’t had much time to exercise as we approach the holiday...
by Admin | Aug 1, 2018 | Articles, Foundations, Growing Each Day, JP Katz, Kabbalah 101, meditation, Personal Growth, Philosophy, Prayer, Rabbi Doniel Katz, Rabbi JP Katz, Relationships, Spirituality, The Journal, Video
Meditation can be scary. I visited with Rabbi Daniel Katz in Jerusalem, Israel to hear more about The Elevation Project. We are old friends from our early days in yeshiva so it was wonderful to get reacquainted with each other. It literally felt like we picked up...
by Admin | Aug 1, 2018 | Articles, Funny, Israel, JP Katz, Middle East, Mitzvot, Practical Jewish Law, Prayer, Rabbi JP Katz, The Journal, Video, Vids
That time we went to Israel and almost died. I was recently in Israel for a family occasion and we all almost died. A missile launched from Syria landed a few football fields away from where we were playing in the water. Although there were several booms heard in the...
by Admin | Apr 5, 2017 | Articles, News, Passover, The Journal, Video
What is Personal Freedom? We journeyed to the nation’s capital to the campus of George Washington University where we asked students and rabbis how they defined personal freedom. Freedom, especially religious freedom, is a concept throughout the Torah that most...
by Admin | Jun 27, 2016 | Articles, Growing Each Day, Personal Growth, Rabbi JP Katz, Singles and Dating, Video Blogs
After a wonderful night out with friends, you come home, and you ritually brush your teeth and off to bed replaying some of the highlights in your mind. In the morning, you make a cup of coffee and some toast and you chuckle from some of the memories of the night...
