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The Day The Rebbe Spoke To Me

A story about how my first visit to the Ohel (the Rebbe’s resting place) changed my life. And this blog.

A personal take on the significance of the Rebbe in my life as a baal teshuva.

Advice to baal teshuvas: this is YOUR journey. Never forget that. (A preview of the ebook, “10 Survival Tips For Baal Teshuvas”).

My first eBook, a short collection of tips to help baal teshuvas on their journeys, is officially out.

A story about how a Chassidicly-inclined Sephardi dude learned to accept that he wasn’t a weirdo.

In this guest post, Leigh Hershkovitz meditates on how she has learned to balance her identity as a writer with her new Jewish identity.

Why baal teshuvas need to stop worrying and start creating.

What happens when a generation of Disney-consuming, wide-eyed, baal teshuvas enter the religious world?

Is a Jewish artist just an artist who happens to be Jewish? Or does he have some sort of responsibility to the Jewish world?

The only way to help a Jew who is questioning his Judaism is to allow him to question.