By Rabbi Chava Behle, March 14, 2010

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Transcript for December 24, 2009 by Ian Lawton
My oldest son is currently learning to drive. This is a new experience for all of us. It’s an anxious time for a parent, a liberating time for a kid. It’s amazing how competent teenagers are, at least when it suits them.
I like the Ben Bergor quote, “It is amazing how quickly kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.”
There is a funny scene in the 90’s movie Clueless which stars Alicia …

Transcript for Thursday, November 26 By Ian Lawton
Some students came to their Rabbi and said, “Rebbe, we are puzzled. It says in the Talmud that we must thank God as much for the bad days as for the good. How can that be? What would our gratitude mean if we gave it equally for the good and the bad?”
The Rebbe replied, “Go to Anapol. Reb Zusya will have an answer for you.”

The Hasidim undertook the journey. Arriving in Anapol, they inquired for Reb Zusya. At last, they came to the …

Transcript for August 23, 2009 by Ian Lawton
Rabbi Bunam said: “Seek peace in your own place.  You cannot find peace anywhere save in your own self.  When you have made peace within yourself, you will be able to make peace in the whole world.”
The Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Han said almost the same thing:  “If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can blossom like a flower and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.”
Thich Nhat Han uses the example of …