We are taught that there is powerful light that cannot be physically seen. We must all discover and shine that light around us.

We are taught that there is powerful light that cannot be physically seen. We must all discover and shine that light around us.
It is perhaps not strange how much I thought of my parents during the last months before I was ordained. My father died just before I entered the program, my mom while I was in it. I know my Mom was proud, and I think my Dad would have been too. I once came home from college and asked if…
It was quite an event. My grandfather was a great man. Abraham Jacob Viniar. Known as Yakov. He fled the czar, was educated for a while in Belgium, and ended up in NYC speaking Russian, Yiddish, Flemish, with a smattering of English. He went to Cooper Union, doing his work every night with a dictionary until he graduated. He served…
I was tending the flock of my father-in-law. I drove the flock into the wilderness, and I came to a beautiful mountain. Whoa, it looked like there was something in a blazing fire out of a bush. I looked, I gazed, and there was that bush all aflame, but the bush was not being consumed. I said to myself, “I…