Mendy Herson

Sep 9, 2024 | chabad.org | Tzvi Freeman |Yanki Tauber |Chana Weisberg |Mendy Herson

Virtuoso Joshua Bell played his 3.5 million dollar Stradivarius in a subway station in Washington D.C. on a cold January morning and over a thousand people walked right by. Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post put him up to it, and Weingarten won a Pulitzer prize for his article. As for Bell, he got a cold bucket of water on his head. Only two kinds of people stopped to listen: Seven adults and every last kid. Except the kids got pulled away by their mothers.

Jan 6, 2024 | chabad.org | Mendy Herson

So you're in the office, on the highway, or maybe even in contemplative prayer, and it hits you: Some area of your life isn't working. So you resolve to do better. That sounds good, except that the resolution doesn't materialize in actual behavior modification. But why not? Why is change so difficult? Maybe it's because we're ingenious at outsmarting ourselves.