by Rabbi Brian | Apr 15, 2021 | 77% Weekly
SHARE VIA EMAIL Think about strawberry jam—the sweet, gooey, red stuff that gets slathered on toast. Or maybe a bagel. Strawberry jam. Yum. (Simple so far, no?) **Experts** In the 1980s, food technologists at Consumer Reports conducted extensive taste tests on 45...
by Rabbi Brian | Apr 9, 2021 | 77% Weekly
SHARE VIA EMAIL Be kind. It’s more important than being right. “You can’t win an argument. You can’t because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.” ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People BEING RIGHT Let’s say...
by Rabbi Brian | Mar 29, 2021 | 77% Weekly
SHARE VIA EMAIL WITHOUT SIN MY PEOPLE My people don’t do the original sin thing. We don’t grow up with this doctrine. We know about guilt; we’re Jews. My people create guilt masterpieces. But original sin—a human construct upon which many lives are unduly...
by Rabbi Brian | Mar 19, 2021 | 77% Weekly
SHARE VIA EMAIL Emotions 101 Emotions are feelings. They happen naturally. Emotions are our response to being alive. As we are human–alive and awake–we have interactions with the world, and we experience emotions. Expressing emotions in a healthy...
by Rabbi Brian | Mar 5, 2021 | 77% Weekly
SHARE VIA EMAIL Why we don’t fly, a Passover story Cohen and I chat about once a week, usually on my evening walk with the dogs around my beautifully maintained 1940s NE Portland neighborhood. We chat about life, how we miss our deceased parents, his dating...
