blogs/rabbi-huberman

Jewish tradition holds that sometimes God winks at us, but we’re not ready to notice.

One of God’s greatest and persistent winks occurred for me between 1973 and 1974.

It was my first time away from home. While it is customary for American students to “go away to college,” in Canada, high school grads usually attend local universities — living at home, taking advantage of quality, but...Read more...

It was in my teenage years, while rustling through some boxes, that I discovered a gold covered loose-leaf binder that apparently had been buried in the basement for decades.

As I slowly opened the cover, and began reading the pages, it occurred to me that these were verses put to pen perhaps 20 years earlier by my father. Yes, my father.

I was dumbstruck. This was my dad, who — as a child — I...Read more...

Has there ever been a time in your life when you've dreamed of a better job, a better life, a better future?

Who did you share that dream with — and did they support you, or did they try to stop you in your tracks?

Theodore Herzl believed in dreams. He wrote in 1896, as he envisioned a Jewish homeland, that “if you will it, it is no dream.”

The Torah believes in dreams. It is an incredible...Read more...

If you are looking for easy answers about life, then you've come to the wrong religion.

Where was God during the Holocaust? Could God have prevented 9/11? Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do so many evil individuals seem to prosper?

Each of us asks many unanswerable questions every...Read more...

Hardly a day goes by that someone does not approach me with the words:

“Rabbi, I'm really not that religious.”

Often, when I meet with a family prior to the funeral of a loved one, they make the point, “Mom (or Dad) wasn't very religious.”

So, then I ask, “What are the enduring lessons that your Mother or Father taught you?”

And what follows almost every time are stories of...Read more...