Category: November 2022

By: Maria Beider Have you ever had a hunch or an intuition about something that you just cannot put into words? I recently had an experience like this. I was going about my day feeling slightly agitated and had butterflies in my stomach. I was feeling increasingly unsettled but I could not put my finger on why exactly. Having read a lot about the felt sense recently, I decided I needed to put it into practice. I sat down, closed my eyes, and started to notice what was going on…

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December Holiday Specials By: Sharon Lurie The summer months in South Africa often include a seaside holiday or a home holiday besides the pool where “braai time, chill time, and fry time” go hand in hand. Why fry time? Because Chanukah normally falls somewhere in the middle (18-26 December) so oil needs to be added into the mix. In this article I’ve included a comforting soup for Shabbos (or any day of the week) for soup lovers, like me! A ‘sarmi’ sure to make you one of the most popular people on Clifton beach! Bangers and mash…

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Freeing yourself from emotional eating By: Chandrea Serebro If the last two years have taught us nothing else, it has shown us that keeping healthy is a number one priority. In any era. But what makes it hard in today’s age is the ubiquitous anxiety that informs much of what we do and feel, getting in the way all too often with even the most common daily routines. Whereas in the olden days (whenever that was), man’s survival was literally about putting food on the table and getting through the…

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A Conversation with Rabbi Yonatan Rosensweig By: Ilan Preskovsky Can a person suffering from severe depression listen to music on Shabbos? Must – or, indeed, can – someone who has been in recovery for years from an eating disorder fast on Yom Kippur? How is someone suffering with depression or a mood disorder supposed to approach the Yamim Nora’im or the three weeks leading up to Tisha b’Av? With the exponential increase in awareness about mental health that has come about over the past few decades, these and other vital…

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Healing toxic emotions with the mind, body and soul By: Paula Levin Hello. How are you? How are you really? Is your life filled with music and melodies for every mood, or is there one song stuck on repeat – perhaps with lyrics like ‘why me, why this, why now’? If you struggle with toxic emotions like shame, self-loathing, bitterness, anger, envy, hatred, and despair – fear not, there is hope! Let’s explore the darkness and learn from others how to find the light. But first, are you open to…

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A siren from the past By: Rabbi Dovid Samuels Shmuel, from London, was a successful businessman. But more than that, he was a ‘Daf Yomi Yid’. Come what may, he would do whatever it took to arrive at shul on time for his daf yomi shiur before going out to work. He treated it with great seriousness. The heavenly court asks a person in the next world if he fixed time for learning Torah. This was Shmuel’s fixed time, his ‘kevius’. Many times, he would stay after the shiur, discussing…

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