I don’t remember when I first came across the saying, “Be the person your dog…
Author: Gershon Ben-Avraham
Gershon Ben-Avraham is an American-Israeli writer. He lives in Beersheba, Israel, on the edge of the Negev Desert. He and his wife share their lives with a gentle blue-merle long-haired collie and a crazy wild rescued kitten. Ben-Avraham earned an MA in Philosophy (Aesthetics) from Temple University. His short story “Yoineh Bodek” (Image) received “Special Mention” in the Pushcart Prize XLlV: Best of the Small Presses 2020 Edition. Kelsay Books published his chapbook “God’s Memory” in 2021. ברסלב
What is the first thing you do after waking up in the morning? For present…
Have you ever admired a person and then learned about something they said or did,…
A few days ago, I was putting away my second set of tefillin, when I…
Beginning in the ninth grade, I took Latin each year in school until I graduated…
I own an edition of The Harvard Classics. One of the frustrating things about it is…
Walking home after Morning Prayers, I pass a spot where a kind-hearted woman feeds homeless…
In the 3rd century BCE, a Greek named Pyrrhus ruled an area in the western…
One summer, while vacationing in New Brunswick, Canada, I took a ferry from the mainland…
One day when I was in elementary school—the fifth grade, I believe—I was walking down…
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