I have found in my life that a very useful prayer practice is to ask for help to become more like a child. If you are like me, at first it will feel strange to legitimately want to make yourself less knowledgeable and much weaker. That internal resistance is the reason why this practice is so […]

Isaiah 11:2-3 “And the spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the spirit of counsel and of might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; and he will delight in the fear of the Lord” The idea of the Spirit of the Lord […]

A wheel rite was in the library at the same time as a duke and happened to notice the duke’s selection of an ancient volume of knowledge from the sages. Before he could catch himself, he scoffed at the book. The duke was not impressed, but gave the wheel rite a chance to save his […]

There was a warning among ancient Jewish scholars not to expound on the meaning of the first books in front of more than one – to be careful who you shared profound and powerful knowledge with. This warning in itself is a perspective changer. A lot of people see the opening books of the Bible […]

When I think of what it means to believe in God, it feels a little bit crazy. It is so very outside my imagination, or maybe inside, that there is almost nothing to grasp onto. Yet, I am supposed to stake my entire life to it. Instructions on how to build faith in this unfathomable […]