From My Notebook

What is the responsibility to look after your fellow man? Do you have an obligation to ensure the welfare of others?

There is nothing like a surprise gift. Celebrating joyful occasions without advance notice invokes very special feelings.

It is important to remember that you never have to do things alone. Using all of your strength includes asking others for help.

When searching for something that you have lost, it is important to make sure that you are looking in the right place.

Sometimes we think we are heading in the right direction only to realize that we are, in fact, traveling the wrong way. It is then that we need to rely on others to support us to find the right path.

Owning a home includes everyday repairs and seasonal upgrades. Single-paned windows allow a cold draft to enter the home. Insulating our windows (and spirituality) is a protection worth investing in.

Sometimes we don't know how valuable and precious what we have is until someone else points it out to us.

A story of how a car accident resulted in Jews attending a Shabbaton and creating a long-lasting friendship and connection with another family.

Eating donuts is a real challenge, with powder, jelly, and extreme stickiness. However, we can learn a powerful lesson from this delectable treat.

In the same way that olive oil does not stay permanently mixed with other liquids and always separates itself, we must ensure that we stay true to ourselves and not allow ourselves to be influenced by negativity.

One of the greatest tasks is to synthesize spirituality with physicality and bring form a connection between heaven and earth.

Being able to give our all to a challenge even when we feel like we were cheated out of what we really wanted is an important skill to develop.

We are born with an innate predisposition to question G-d and life's challenges. However, the struggle is part of the journey to achievement.

Join Yisrael Shurack, MSW as he discusses strategies to keep your relationship blossoming during the Summer. Yisrael can be reached by email at: yshurack@gmail.com or by WhatsApp at: +1 604-272-7763.

Join Yisrael Shurack, MSW as he explores the key ingredients to finding and sustaining marital harmony. Yisrael can be reached by email at: yshurack@gmail.com or by WhatsApp at: +1 604-272-7763.

Explores what we can learn from banana bread and why we should focus on transforming challenges into opportunities for growth and success. 

Explores the merit of paying for something of value and the dedication needed. 

Explores the challenge of transitions and the connection between facing challenges and the opportunity to refine yourself and become the person that G-d knows you can be. 

Explores the methodology behind exercise and how we can apply that to spirituality. 

Explores what we can learn from mosquitoes and the importance of being a giver and not just a taker. 

Explores Psalm 27 and the importance of now allowing important tasks to become mundane and perfunctory and keeping them infused with energy. 

Explores how life is full of hard decisions and tasks but that we get to choose our hard, and the amazing quality of dancing on Simchas Torah to draw down blessings. 

Explores the eating in the Sukkah during the holiday of Sukkot and how it can be compared to having an intimate relationship with your spouse. 

Explores what we can learn from children and their willingness to try something new and their determination to succeed. 

Explores the meaning of birthdays and the courage that Chava (Eve) had by leaving the Garden of Eden to start the mission to bring heaven down to Earth.