Patience

There are two qualities that are basic to coping with the problems that arise in life: Patience and the ability to endure suffering, to tolerate a difficult situation. Patience is the inner readiness to endure what is at hand until it changes. It implies the hope and perhaps even the conviction that, in the end,…

First Steps in Elul

Everyone knows the verse in Shir Hashirim (6:3) that is used to interpret the name of this month that precedes the High Holy Days. The letters which spell Elul in Hebrew correspond to the first letters in each word of the passage: יל ידודו ידודל ינא “I am to my beloved and my beloved is to me.” “My…