Dr. John E. Sarno is convinced that you can heal severe back pain and other body aches without surgery, physical therapy, or even medication. His theory: Emotional pain causes physical pain. The cure, then, isn’t body-based remedies, but rather techniques that release anger, stress, and other negative feelings. A closer look at his mind-body approach to relieving pain.
A Conversation with Charlie Harary,Words from the heart are taken to heart, and what Rabbi Moshe Ibn Ezra said many years ago still holds true today — especially when it comes to Charlie Harary, whose inspiring talks and videos about Torah reach thousands of people every year. But long before he became a familiar face at the Orthodox Union and Aish HaTorah, Harary’s own heart was opened in a surprising way
If you’re British and hear the name Ashley Blaker, you’ll probably start to giggle. Blaker, one of the funniest men in the British entertainment industry who today wears a black hat and has peyos behind his ears, talks about becoming religious in a heavily atheistic medium, and how a Torah life doesn’t have to be humorless.
“I am a Jew, and it is forbidden for me to marry a Gentile. I thank you for your good intentions, but it is impossible for me to fulfill your request.”
Fifty years ago this week, the fire that burned down a dormitory in the Telshe Yeshivah and took the lives of two bochurim threatened to unravel two decades of dedicated toil. Would the yeshivah, built with the steely determination of two roshei yeshivah who lost everything to the Nazis, survive this latest decree?
For many people, social gambling is an innocuous way to pass the time. For others gambling is something more — an addictive thrill that adds excitement to life. Who is a candidate for a gambling addiction, and who is not? And is it worth taking the risk to find out?
