I started doing the 929 program a few months ago, when it started for the second time. In case you don’t know, 929 (https://www.929.org.il/lang/en/today) is how many chapters there are in all of the Tanach. (Torah, Nevim, Ketuvim.) From Sunday- Thursday you are supposed to study one chapter a day, Friday and Saturday are built…
World Mental Health day is October 10th, and this week on the JTO podcast we talk about how Hoarding, since 2013, is considered a real psychological problem. If you have any mental health issue, you should seek help, now! I talk about the different levels of hoarding, how hoarder is used as a general term…
A lady called me last week and asked me – She thinks that G-d will always send her what she needs but what about when things are on sale, should she stock up? She said that she knows she doesn’t need to hoard things but sometimes she sees things on sale and likes the idea…
I was planning to talk about Conquer Your Clutter and a listener question about purchasing clothing on sale, but then yesterday, Ari Fuld was murdered, and talking about buying things on sale the week of Yom Kippur just didn’t seem right. So, this week on the JTO podcast I talk about, tafkid – your mission…
Shannah Tova Everyone – (Happy Jewish New Year). This week on Journey to organization I talk about Tashlich, the Jewish ceremony done between Rosh Hashanna and Yom Kippur to rid yourself of sin. It is common to symbolically throw your sins away using bread, I talk about my experience, sans bread, saying the prayers at…
Often times people ask me, wouldn’t it be better if I just had more? I have three bathrooms so I need three toilet brushes, right? This week, I talk about this question, and why having more can sometimes be helpful, but usually isn’t. I also talk about my pledge to try to implement one new…
Rifka is a financial consultant, speaker, and author specializing in personal and small business finance. She is the founder of the extremely popular Facebook group Living Financially Smarter in Israel, an author, and now a course creator. If you need help organizing your finances, please get in touch with Rifka today! Her website is: http://rifkalebowitz.com/…
This week on Journey to organization I speak with my friend and Life Coach – Helen Abelez. We have a great talk about the difference between a life coach and a therapist, how to figure out your mission in life and then how to find the courage to achieve your goals, techniques for staying relaxed…
On this week’s episode of Journey To Organization I answer listener questions. The overall theme of this episode is consume less stuff, but I talk about storing clothing for kids, cleaning routines, during the week and for shabbat, and how to decide what to keep in your home when you are trying to become a…
This week I chat with green architect Debby Schor Elyasy. Debby is an Italian-Israeli architect with experience in architecture, interior design, and green building and has offices in Italy and Israel. We had a great chat and spoke about what to do if you are building a house from the round up, what to do…