What I like about you
Rabbi Brian asks you to tell three people a week what you like about them.
Justified Anxiety
Rabbi Brian muses that anxiety might be brought upon the self! Wow. ()
Heaven on Earth
Rabbi Brian talks about standards and how we have lost sight of heaven on earth.
Mystical Experience
Rabbi Brian discusses the 7 qualities that make up a mystical experience.
Non Violent Communication and God
Rabbi Brian talks about “IS” — the verb and it’s theologic implications. (More interesting than it sounds.)
Decoy Effect and Not Knowing
Rabbi Brian suggests that we know less than we think that we do.
Authorized
Rabbi Brian talks about what it means to be AUTHORIZED. Did someone ask you to help? If they didn’t, stop helping.

Bad Words
Last spring, I overheard a colleague at the high school at which I taught use some words I didn’t like. I heard the teacher proclaiming to struggling

From my office.
There are exciting things happening here in the ROTB office. I can’t yet pull down a curtain declaring, “Ta-Da!” But, I have wonderful plans. I’m working

HHD service PDX (Portland, OR)
Friday Night – September 18, 2015 The Friday Night between Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur Free No Hebrew, no affiliation, no theology required An outside-the-box spiritual

Frustration Dam
We often come head-to-head with what I like to call our “frustration dam.” It is essentially our breaking point for dealing with daily challenges. Too

Life is a game of Texas Hold’em poker, said the rabbi
Life as an analogy As a clergy person, I feel compelled to have at least one good, “life-is-like-metaphor.” In the past, I had compared life

Ego as a path to the holy
Jalaja Bonheim is an acquaintance of mine. She is a healer, a holy-woman. I was honored to get an advance copy of her latest book, The

Moral Indignation, Jealous much? (25|40)
I know it was some time after we were married and sometime before we had children. I remember the house we lived in and which

ROTB office tour
This is a test post to see if the content that I intend to publish gets published. Here is a video office tour of ROTB