Weekly Newsletter Volume 5, Issue 3, Parshas Lech Lecha

November 9, 2024; 8 Cheshvan, 5785 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara

QUESTION: In an attempt to “reach” the client and improve his behavior, is a marriage therapist that encounters a client who is a not a good spouse, allowed to lie to the client and tell him that he is indeed, a good spouse and should avoid behaviors and actions that are unbecoming of him? This is the common method of setting a high standard for someone to bolster their confidence and then comparing their actions to the standard that they have set (i.e. “You’re too good of a person to be acting this way”)...

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Weekly Newsletter Volume 5, Issue 2, Parshas Noach

November 2, 2024; 1 Cheshvan, 5785 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara

QUESTION: An acquaintance of mine, who used to work with me in the office, moved to another location to take a different job and I had not spoken to him for a while. I needed to ask him something, so I gave him a call. Since I had not spoken with him for a while, I asked him how he was doing with genuine curiosity and concern. Apparently, my acquaintance misinterpreted the tone of my tone and thought that I was aware of his rather serious medical situation and proceeded to thank me for my care and concern in asking how he was doing. I felt awkward and played along with his erroneous assumption...

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Weekly Newsletter Volume 5, Issue 1, Parshas Bereshis

October 26, 2024; 24 Tishrei, 5785 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara

QUESTION: I wanted to get your opinion on the following situation: The father and founder of a highly lucrative family business, wants his family to eat a heart-healthy diet. He gets very upset whenever any of the family at the office orders fries, oil rich foods, and/or fatty meats and anything at all with mayo. At the office, if lunch is being ordered in front of him, the family has developed a code system of food ordering – where certain not-so-healthy sandwiches have other names. If a family member wants to order the pastrami and he is within earshot of the father, he tells the one doing the ordering, to order him the salmon...

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