Let’s get personal
People say they don\’t really know me. That\’s what the last guy I dated said.
People say they don\’t really know me. That\’s what the last guy I dated said.
The practitioner of Chinese medicine decided that maybe she needed a little education in the field of dating. This led her to Tel Aviv\’s Date School, the only psychotherapy-based dating program in Israel — and perhaps the world — which literally teaches people how to be more effective, self-aware and informed daters.
n March, I had the privilege of co-starring in the Jerusalem premiere of Neil LaBute\’s play \”Some Girl(s)\” at the Center Stage Theater at Merkaz Hamagshimim Hadassah. The play follows Guy, an about-to-be-married 33-year-old American writer, as he tracks down his ex-flames to \”right some wrongs\” so he can begin his new life with a clean slate … or so it seems.
To me, mere satisfaction — in job or life — has always meant stagnancy. But, as we all know, the interview process is exhausting. Besides being on your best behavior, you\’re subject to constant judgment. Confidence is imperative, and things are often not as they seem.
Rabbi Friedman was talking about the human soul as if it had a mind of its own, a very confident mind.
I didn\’t exactly mean to go incognito, but when my friend Ben didn\’t recognize me — even after chatting with me for a minute at the noisy Purim carnival — I realized I was onto something: I could be anyone.
The hardest challenge for me is staying open to possibilities and not shutting off my desires, even though they haven\’t yet come to fruition.
In Judaism, we sit shiva after a death. We grieve, confront and try to accept. It\’s an ancient process, and it helps.