As we move through to the eleventh day of Adar-the season of "Mishenichnas Adar Marbin BeSimcha" (Mishnah Taanis 26b -we first need to understand what Simcha Tamid (Constant Joy) actually means. We ...

Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are solely the opinion of that person and not the Daily Journal. Our music director at church sometimes asks me to fill in for her during a Sunday service. Tammera knows ...

Happiness and worry simply cannot live in the same heart at the exact same moment.

The song title 1 of the headline covers both halves of the so-called "ironic effect,” and it is a common way people deal with adversity. The actual, well-documented outcome of such an approach to life ...

I have a problem. When I get extremely close to certain people, I am sometimes overcome with a sense of fear that something awful has happened to them if I have not heard from them when expected. This ...