The fourth week of the Counting of the Omer asks us to examine Netzach, endurance. What areas in your life are asking you to push through uncomfortable positions or situations in order that you reach a better place?

In the United States, Memorial Day often comes and goes with little more than a day off of school and work. Yom HaZikaron - Israel’s Memorial Day - arrives right before Yom Ha’Atzmaut - Israel’s Independence Day. There is hardly a person in Israel who does not take pause for contemplation and then

Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day occurs on the 27th of Nisan. It is important for all of us to take pause and offer acknowledgment, reverence and our own contemplations on such a difficult moment in history.

At the second Passover Seder, we began the Counting of the Omer. There is deeper meaning to be discovered even within counting.