Rabbi Wolpe’s Musings

The second generation is the first to receive.

For God, it's not all about sides.

Listen to your inner angel.

What is Judaism's antidote to vulnerability?

Empathy is strength of soul.

If angels can fly, why did they climb up and down the ladder in Jacob's dream?

A great sermon is a collaboration between speaker and listener.

Jews are known for being late for meetings, but are spiritually attuned to time in special ways.

Is the desert a place of desolation, or a place of possibility?

The Kotzker Rebbe taught that the only whole heart is a broken one.

Why we should pray that the best things in our life continue to benefit us and others.

The Baal Shem Tov and Ludwig Wittgenstein both remind us that we cannot know what other people are struggling with.