At The Right Time
Rabbi Brian talks a little about Channukah, but really about the pre-modern sense of time.
Attachment, Greed, and Henry Higgins
Rabbi Brian talks about an experience he had in which, in the span of ten minutes, he had a gamut of human emotions dealing with
A prose about modernity
Rabbi Brian waxes about how we constantly seem to want to improve our world… and that this might not be such a good idea.
Budgetting for annoyances
Rabbi Brian talks about shifting perspective, time management, and how we need to expect to be annoyed as a way to not be annoyed.
Convenience and Stress
Rabbi Brian discusses STRESS and how we have it still in this world filled with CONVENIENCES!
Courage to be mediocre
Rabbi Brian encourages you to BE MEDIOCRE; but only if you are courageous enough to try!
Ignorant, Stupid, or Evil
Rabbi Brian discusses Kathryn Schultz’s work on mistakes. How we tend to see people who disagree with us as ignorant, stupid, or evil.
True Religion (sans God)
Rabbi Brian talks about how real religion has NOTHING to do with God, how we need to get that in our heads, and how to
The Things You Do Well
Rabbi Brian talks about how we need to forgive others for not being as good as we are in the things we are excellent in.
Pitting Cherries
Rabbi Brian tells about watching his daughter learn to take the pits out of cherries and how we all push ourselves to improve.
To do list as your friend
Rabbi Brian tells you that your TO-DO LIST is your FRIEND. Really?!? That’s crazy… or is it? (I’ll tell you, it isn’t.)
Placebo- pleasing them
Rabbi Brian talks about placebo — the latin word that means “I WILL PLEASE” and how pleasing others can be a problem.
Not Listening to the opinions of others
Rabbi Brian talks about two incidents in which he held the opinions of people outside of himself in higher regard than his better judgment.
Surrender
Rabbi Brian revisits the spiritual-religious topic of surrender.
Simple Spiritual-Religious Life
Rabbi Brian talks about how a spiritual-religious life isn’t that complicated.