What is the Yetzer Ha’rah? We first encounter this term in Gen:  6:5 – “God saw how great was man’s wickedness on earth, and how every plan devised by his mind was nothing but evil all the time”. One of the Talmudic commentaries on this verse can be found in the Eitz...

What has driven my music is an intense desire to express the depths of who I am emotionally, and also to touch the Transcendent – that spiritual essence that is so beautiful, and that is beyond our everyday, mundane selves. I also sing because every creative act offers a way to bring Spirit onto this Earthly plane.

The smoke from the Dixie fire was undeniable and overwhelming. On the ground in Portland and Seattle, we were confronted head on with the heart-wrenching crush of homelessness. These emotionally walloping realities spurred me to write this reflection/poem.

I have been immersing myself in the psycho-spiritual practice of being consciously curious for close to 10 years now, and I am beginning to experience some real dividends. By this, I mean that I am recognizing that I’m approaching life from a different perspective,...