Eliezer Shemtov

There is a song in Yiddish, Fort a Yidele in a Shiffele, that describes a desperate situation and the limited options available: A Jew sails on a little boat,The boat breaks and he is drowning,He cries: "Tatenyu! (Dear Father!) Save me! Save me!""I cannot...

One cause of anxiety is uncertainty about the outcome when embarking on a new and important undertaking. The more important the venture, the more stress it can generate — sometimes enough to paralyze us, or to make us abandon the effort altogether. How do...

Clearly, humility is not the same as an inferiority complex. So what is it?

One of the causes of anxiety and anguish is focusing on what we lack rather than on what we have. Take a simple glass of water. Is it really so simple? Have you ever stopped to consider what a marvel it represents? What would life — your life — be without...

Anxiety and depression are often the result of discomfort or confusion about one's own identity.

What do you do when your efforts don’t yield visible results? Do you keep going or do you give up? Is perseverance always a virtue? Might it sometimes be a form of vanity—an unwillingness to admit failure? As with so many such questions, the answer is: it...

When it comes to serving G-d, we do so with our maximum and then some.

Join us as we sit down with Rabbi Eliezer Shemtov, Chabad emissary to Uruguay, to discuss the difficult question of love vs. faith.

Is the goal of such an enormous effort simply to prevent bullying and discrimination against those who one may consider different?

A discussion about the breach in the wall of Jerusalem that occurred on the 17th of Tammuz, and its relevance to us today.