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Ronald W. Pies M.D. wrote a new post, Compassion, “JuBuSto” and the Three-Petalled Rose 1 year, 3 months ago

I’ve been having an odd experience of late, and I’m sure you’ve experienced the same thing: some word or a phrase–or often, a tune–you just can’t get out of your head. That’s what I’ve been dealing with for some […]
Ronald W. Pies M.D. wrote a new post, Getting Detached from Our Unhealthy Attachments 1 year, 4 months ago

An old ethnic joke tells the story of the grandmother who is walking on the beach with her young grandson. Suddenly, she looks around and sees the boy a hundred feet out at sea, flailing his arms and treading […]
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Ronald W. Pies wrote a new post, Steve Jobs, Yom Kippur, and the Eternal Mystery 1 year, 6 months ago

I was never emotionally attached to Steve Jobs in the way many of his fans were, though I have certainly admired his Herculean technical accomplishments. But his untimely death, just before Yom Kippur—the Jewish […]
Ronald W. Pies wrote a new post, I Am a Seeking Mess 1 year, 6 months ago

by Ronald Pies MD
The French polymath and mystic, Blaise Pascal, famously described the human being as a “thinking reed”. (His observation begins, “Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a […]
Ronald W. Pies wrote a new post, Kindness, the Queen of Virtues 1 year, 6 months ago

The world stands on three things—on the Torah, on the Sacred Service, and on the practice of loving-kindness.
— Shimon the righteous, Pirke Avot 1:2

What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult […]
Ronald W. Pies wrote a new post, The Uncluttered Mind, The Unfettered Soul 1 year, 6 months ago

“What makes the bed of a Torah scholar? Nothing is found under it except sandals in the summer and shoes in the rainy season…By contrast, the bed of an unlearned person looks like a storeroom packed with odds and […]
Ronald W. Pies wrote a new post, My Amtrak Angel 1 year, 6 months ago

My wife and I were on the late train from Washington DC to Boston. We had just spent the holidays with her family, and after a hectic three days of brunches, dinners, wailing infants, and disrupted sleep, I was […]
Ronald W. Pies wrote a new post, Jewish Values and the Right to Health Care 1 year, 6 months ago

Is there a basic human right to health care? Or is health care a “privilege” that applies only to those who can afford it? And what is the Judaic perspective on this controversial issue, so much in the news these […]
Ronald W. Pies wrote a new post, Is it Right to Rejoice over bin Laden’s death? 1 year, 6 months ago

The recent killing of Osama bin Laden has occasioned a wide variety of emotional reactions in this country and abroad. For many Americans, the response was one of relief, admixed with joy, and perhaps some […]
Ronald W. Pies posted an update: 2 years ago

@donnabaierstein Thanks for the greeting, Donna! It is a privilege to be part of such a community of spiritually and ethically-attuned readers. –Best, Ron
Ronald W. Pies posted an update: 2 years, 7 months ago

@adelekenny Hi, Ms. Kenny–or, if I may, Adele. I very much enjoyed your poem, “The Trains”–its lyricism and restraint, nicely in tension. As a poet myself, I rarely respond well to all the “too clever by half” poetry that seems to be the staple of many writing programs these days. It’s gratifying to see someone writing from the marrow. –Best…[Read more]
Ronald W. Pies posted an update: 2 years, 7 months ago

@alicejerman Hi, Alice, Donna, Melissa and members of the Tiferet community–it is truly a privilege to join in your important work. Thanks very much for including me.
-Best regards, Ron Pies

P.S. I was very happy to renew my subscription to Tiferet last week, and I hope others will also take that opportunity!

Ronald W. Pies M.D.