Rosh Hashana: Your Majesty
Over the past two weeks, the world has been consumed with talk about the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest living sovereign and...
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Miri Korbman
- Sep 15
- 6 min
Parshas Ki Savo: How Happiness Happens
At the start of therapy, I ask all my patients some version of the same question: “In six months from now, if therapy were useful, what...
Miri Korbman
- Sep 8
- 7 min
Parshas Ki Seitzei: More than a Good Samaritan
The field of social psychology has long been preoccupied with the patterns, mechanisms, and contributing factors of prosocial behavior....
Miri Korbman
- Sep 2
- 6 min
Parshas Shoftim: Of Feelings and Fugitives
When considering the manifold ways in which Torah and psychology intersect, an obvious area of exploration is that of the Torah’s...
Miri Korbman
- Aug 26
- 6 min
Parshas Re’eh: Daring to Choose
This week’s Parsha begins with a slightly enigmatic set of Pesukim. In preparing Bnei Yisrael to enter Eretz Yisrael, Moshe warns them,...
Miri Korbman
- Aug 18
- 6 min
Parshas Eikev: What G-d Wants
As G-d-fearing Jews striving to live righteous and spiritually connected lives, we have likely all had a moment of struggle, confusion,...
Miri Korbman
- Aug 12
- 7 min
Parshas Va’eschanan & Shabbos Nachamu: Radical Acceptance
So here we are, folks. Another year, another Tisha B’Av come and gone. We’ve fasted, we’ve cried, we’ve davened our hearts out. We’ve...
Miri Korbman
- Aug 4
- 9 min
Tisha B’Av & Counter Conditioning: A Message from the Tisha B’Av Lady
If you’ve taken an introductory psychology course, you’ll know all about Pavlov’s dogs and Watson’s studies with Little Albert. Russian...
Miri Korbman
- Jul 28
- 6 min
Parshas Matos-Maasei: Input and Output
As human beings, one of the things that differentiates us most from other living creatures is our ability to communicate with speech....
Miri Korbman
- Jul 20
- 7 min
Parshas Pinchas & The Three Weeks: Inherent or Inherited?
In recent years, more attention than ever has been directed toward understanding intergenerational trauma, or the degree to which the...
Miri Korbman
- Jul 14
- 6 min
Parshas Balak: Dwelling in Difference
One of the many reasons that people come to therapy is to get an outsider’s perspective on a critically important or emotionally charged...
Miri Korbman
- Jul 6
- 6 min
Parshas Chukas: Vulnerability Factors
Parshas Chukas features one of the saddest dramas of Moshe Rabbeinu’s life. Bnei Yisrael come to Kadesh and camp there, and Miriam dies....
Miri Korbman
- Jun 29
- 5 min
Parshas Korach: The Root of Rebellion
The annals of history highlight the significant role of rebellion and revolution in changing and influencing the fates of empires....
Miri Korbman
- Jun 23
- 7 min
Parshas Shelach: Show, Don’t Tell
Have you ever reread a book or re-watched a movie and known all along how it ends? When you do, have you ever watched the main character...
Miri Korbman
- Jun 14
- 5 min
Parshas Behaaloscha: Overcoming Negativity Bias
Perhaps the holiest generation of Jews, the Dor HaMidbar, infamously tested Hashem ten times over the course of their forty-year sojourn...
Miri Korbman
- Jun 9
- 7 min
Parshas Naso: The Nazir and the Harm Reduction Approach
People come to therapy for various reasons and through different avenues, but a common thread is that they wish to improve their overall...
Miri Korbman
- Jun 2
- 9 min
Shavuos and Parshas Bamidbar: A Reader
The holiday of Shavuos, known as Zman Matan Toraseinu, commemorates Maamad Har Sinai, when all of Klal Yisrael heard Hashem’s voice, saw...
Elisabeth Gross
- Mar 24
- 4 min
Sefer Ohel Rochel, Week 3
In this week’s shiur, we explored the concept of our shaaninut, tranquility and stability, as an anchor which we find through chaim, life...
Elisabeth Gross
- Mar 24
- 4 min
Sefer Ohel Rochel, Week 2
In this week’s shiur, we aimed to begin to answer the question, who are women? Who did Hashem create us to be? And what unique strengths...
Miri Korbman
- Mar 23
- 7 min
Shemini: The Right Thing at the Right Time
On the eighth day of the inauguration of the Mishkan, a day replete with celebration and immense joy, tragedy strikes. Nadav and Avihu,...