blogs/rabbi-huberman

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...

"When one pleases one's fellow creatures, God is pleased; when one does not please one's fellow creatures, God is not pleased." — Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa

If you there was one thing you'd want to be...Read more...

Is there any symbol more central to the American Dream than owning your own home? What is it about a home that makes it so special?

For many, it represents the culmination of dedication and hard work; it means a successful career — and standing on your own two feet.

But for the Jewish people, it wasn't always that way. Many of our parents and grandparents who immigrated to this country first lived in...Read more...