We know that we’re meant to serve Hashem out of joy and love. How can we do this if we don’t really feel it? What should we do when we know we should be grateful, but our lives are plagued with difficulties and it’s hard to feel Hashem’s love?

During the period of the Three Weeks we are urged to awaken ourselves to the horrifying and the heartbreaking. The moments of our existence as a People that bring us to tears and make us long for the geula. In this moving shmuz Rabbi Shafier encourages us to look at our greatness and our failings, i

We tend to think that our brain is our best friend- we rely on our thoughts to discern right from wrong, good from bad and truth from falsehood. So what happened with Korach? How could he be driven to stage such a catastrophic rebellion? The answer is that your brain is a handmaiden to your ego. It�

In this powerful Shmuz, Rabbi Shafier discusses the spiritual forces that cause cognitive dissonance and shows us how we can have a chance at living a more authentic and truthful existence.
If you want to have the clarity to move forward through this thing called life, you need to understand wha

Using the event of how Eliezer Bar Dudia gained the title of “Rebbe,” we are introduced to one of the greatest acts of tshuvah ever achieved. We witness his rise from the depths of depravity to the heights of spirituality in the course of a few hours. Through the story of his life, we s

While Yom Kippur is known as the Day of Forgiveness, there are two other concerns people should focus on that day: praying for their needs for the coming year and asking themselves the key question, “Am I leading the life I wish to be leading?” This Shmuz focuses us on the importance of all t

Nachum Ish Gam Zu, one of the greatest Tanna’im who ever lived, was a complete tzaddik. Yet at one point in his life, he made a minor mistake, and from then on suffered terribly. When he explained to his students that it was because of this minor oversight that he was suffering,