The Spa at the Hotel Hershey in Hershey, Pa., is every chocolate lover\’s fantasy. With bowls of silver-wrapped kisses (certified kosher) seemingly everywhere, and hot cocoa waiting by the fire, it may be the world\’s only spa that actually encourages guests to consume the stuff between treatments.
Hinda Leah Scharfstein sees the Torah as more than just the original source of halachah, Jewish law, and the earliest telling of our nation\’s birth.
\”The Torah takes a holistic look at the individual, and it does tend to have a sort of healing effect on people,\” said Scharfstein, the executive director of Bais Chana Women\’s International, a New York-based nonprofit. \”I attended my first holistic Torah retreat 20 years ago, and I have been involved on a professional and personal level with it ever since, and since then I have definitely felt better. My thinking has become healthier, and I feel more whole.\”
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