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...
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Miri Korbman
- Sep 8, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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 19, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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
- Jul 23, 2021
- 6 min
Devarim and the Nine Days: Knowing What We Want
Question: How many therapists does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: One, but the light bulb has to want to change. This oft-quoted...
Miri Korbman
- Jul 15, 2021
- 6 min
Devarim: The Danger of Projection
Parshas Devarim features the beginning of Moshe’s account to the Jewish people of the past forty years in the desert, as they stand...
Miri Korbman
- Sep 24, 2020
- 7 min
Haazinu and Yom Kippur 5781: The Possibility to Heal
Beth* had spent most of her adolescence in and out of psychiatric inpatient units and had already been in individual therapy for three...
Miri Korbman
- Sep 9, 2020
- 7 min
Nitzavim-Vayelech: The Frog, the Fish, and the Freedom to Choose
There is a particularly gruesome “How To” project about which you have probably never been curious, and which is an integral metaphor for...
Miri Korbman
- Sep 2, 2020
- 5 min
Ki Savo: Owning the Narrative
Though there is a great deal of debate in the field of psychology regarding the relevance of one’s past to his or her current concerns or...
Miri Korbman
- Aug 27, 2020
- 5 min
Ki Seitzei: Radical Root of Teshuva
In November 1785, after accidentally upending a mouse’s nest with his plow, Scottish farmer and poet Robert Burns penned the heartfelt...
Miri Korbman
- Aug 20, 2020
- 5 min
Shoftim: Law and Disorder
Like my ninth grade classmates and I, some of you might have had the dubious honor of reading Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The...
Miri Korbman
- Aug 12, 2020
- 5 min
Re'eh: It's Not a Contest
In the introduction to her incredibly moving and thought-provoking memoir “The Choice,” psychologist and Holocaust survivor Dr. Edith Eva...
Miri Korbman
- Aug 5, 2020
- 5 min
Eikev: What are you Talking About?
Anyone who knows me well knows that I like to tell stories about my nieces and nephews. I may be biased, but I personally believe there...
Miri Korbman
- Jul 31, 2020
- 5 min
Va'Eschanan/Shabbos Nachamu: GIVE to Get
In this week’s Torah portion, Moshe continues his parting speech to the Jewish people, recounting his fervent attempts to entreat Hashem...
Miri Korbman
- Oct 3, 2019
- 5 min
Vayeilech and Yom Kippur 5780: Don't Just Stand There!
This week’s Parsha begins with an enigmatic statement. Following immediately on the heels of Moshe’s impassioned messages in Parshas...
Miri Korbman
- Sep 15, 2019
- 4 min
Ki Savo: The Power of Visualization
In this week’s Parsha, Moshe continues his pump-up speech to the Jewish people, who are stationed on the shores of the Jordan River,...
Miri Korbman
- Sep 15, 2019
- 5 min
Nitzavim: Creating Distance and Coming Close
It is far from coincidental that Parshas Nitzavim is read each year in the lead up to Rosh Hashana. Looking through the text of this...
Miri Korbman
- Sep 12, 2019
- 5 min
Ki Seitzei: What's Love Got to Do With It?
This week’s Parsha discusses the laws of inheritance for a man who has married more than one wife. The psukim read as follows, “If a man...
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