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Recent Posts
- Learning about the Torah’s perspective
- The Perfect Present
- The Owner
- Body-Soul
- Yom Kippur and the Spiritual Smorgasbord
- Audio classes now available
- Remembrance and Asking the Right Question – the Holocaust and Purim
- Sudden Tragedies, Fear of Heaven and The deaths of the righteous
- Definitions of Maturity: The Torah and the Nickelodean Street
- The non-blessing blessing
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Author Archives: Rabbi Ephraim D. Becker
Learning about the Torah’s perspective
Years ago, I was exposed to Cooperative Learning, an approach to structuring instruction such that students learn with and from one another. The students need one another to complete their tasks and they share in the challenge and the success … Continue reading
The Perfect Present
Many readers are familiar with the lovely book by Dr. Spencer Johnson, The Precious Present. In it a person learns to be happy by acknowledging that the present is perfect. There are two assumptions made by the book, and there … Continue reading
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The Owner
When a salesman calls to make a product recommendation, he wants to know that he is speaking with the person who can make the purchasing decision. He does not want to waste his efforts making his pitch to someone who … Continue reading
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Body-Soul
There is a popular old legend that a person only uses a fraction of his brain. There does not seem to be any science behind this myth, but the idea that we have more capacity than we are aware of … Continue reading
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Yom Kippur and the Spiritual Smorgasbord
Yom Kippur Smorg I hope that you find that this short class enhances your Yom Kippur experience! With warm wishes for a Gmar Chasima Tova, Rabbi Ephraim Becker
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Audio classes now available
Yeshiva Ohr Avraham, under the guidance of Rav Mordechai Sher, has posted a number of talks which I delivered at the Yeshiva on Torah Anytime. They can be downloaded at no charge at the following link: Shiurim of Rabbi Ephraim … Continue reading