The episode explores three different dimensions of productive activity: Labor, Service and Purpose. A guideline is offered to help audit our activities and edit out those that are of insufficient value to justify the effort we exert for them.

Depletion, unlike fatigue, is a spiritual rather than a physical phenomenon. It requires a spiritual process to restore. This episode extrapolates five principles of restoration from the laws of Shabbat.

This episode explores what exactly we are meant to remember about Amalek. It is not so much what they did, but why they did it and what we need to do to avoid a repetition of those fateful events.

Sometimes we lose precious opportunities for self-reflection and growth because we are obsessed with the other.

This episode explains the nuances and depths of universal moral principles uniquely understood through the lens of the Talmud. Ideas such as Love your Neighbor and Thou Shalt not Murder, mean so much more than meets the eye.

Ritual practice has no impact on our characters or beliefs. Only service that is rooted in our hearts can express our deepest souls and grow our human and spiritual capacity. Sometimes this growth needs us to be challenged at the limits of our capacities. When we are challenged there, those limits are no longer our limits as our capacities expand to levels we never knew were possible.

Sparks of intuitive insights are one of the ways God communicates with us. But they can only be trusted when they follow careful listening and deep reflection. Lessons from Yoseif and King Solomon.