Adjusting Our Lenses for Rosh HaShana
“When you come to the land that Hashem your G-d is
giving to you … you must place a king upon yourselves …”
(Deut. 17:14)
Good malchut has been robbed from us. By good malchut I mean (more…)eBook Now Available!
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Why We Keep Kosher
Why We Keep Kosher When we read about a mitzvah in the Torah, our contemporary brains usually conjure up a spiritual, behavioral/psychological, or sociological reason for the commandment. It is easy to explain that certain seemingly obscure (more…)Posted in
The Seven Ways For Women
Along with a team of wise women, I am composing a Seven Ways book specifically for women. The book will relate the seven different personalities to the unique experience of women and highlight their unique struggles and paths to victory through the stories of seven great women of the Torah (Bible). As such, I am compiling letters and monologues from women who have been inspired and positively impacted by the Seven Ways system. They will be published (with permission) on this website and in the new book. Please send your writings and ideas for a title to Rabbi Bailey at Questions (General). They are always treated as confidential until expressed consent is given. Current title suggestions include: The Seven Ways: Women’s Ways The Seven Prophetesses The Seven Women Please send in your feedback!Posted in
How do Your Parents Relate to God? A Beautiful Binary – Ekev
How do Your Parents Relate to God?
A Beautiful Binary
I’ve found that people generally conceive of their relationship with G-d as the same as the relationship that they had with (more…)Posted in
The More Things Change, the More They Don’t Stay the Same
Parsha Print-Me
Va’etchanan
There is a very common tension that is found in religious groups, organizations, and even marriages that appears in many forms, but inevitably has the same subtle subtext underneath. It is essential for one to be aware of this tension, as we spend a great deal of time dealing with it. When a business or non-profit initially (more…)Posted in
Perception & Projection
When you study the Torah, you inevitably find sources for insightful ideas or studies that have been gathered by human investigation and research. This is most notably true of psychological concepts. In this week’s Torah portion, Moshe (Moses) brings (more…)Posted in
The Top 4 Ways to Read The Seven Ways
In this post I discuss: Secrets of the book: I included hidden nuggets of information within the interviews; also, how you can positively impact yourself tremendously from the book. I realized that there are several different ways to read The Seven Ways that (1) people find most beneficial and (2) (more…)Posted in
Don’t We Have All of The 7?
A question that is frequently posed to me:“Don’t we have all of the seven middot (qualities, skill sets) that you describe, in our personalities?”
The answer is: yes, we do have all of the middot in our being. However, we have some of the middot in our personalities more than others. We each have all of the middot in that we are all capable of executing acts that are in line with each of the seven types of skill sets. For example, we are all able to paint attractive portraits, which is in line with the tiferet middah, or read more here!