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Micah B. Engel, NP-P Brooklyn, NY 11201, USAMicah B. Engel, NP-P is a board-certified nurse practitioner in psychiatry providing medication management and person-centered therapy to children, adolescents, and adults. His specialties include ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, trauma disorders, bipolar disorders, depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia. He is currently employed at Four Winds Hospital and Mosaic Mental Health. Mr. Engel also sees clients at his private practice. Mr. Engel is licensed to treat clients located in NY, NH and NM.
Our tefilos are worded in the plural. Give us wisdom, return us in teshuva, forgive us, and ten more requests in the Shemona Esrei, always asking on behalf of all of us.
Mar b’rai d’Ravina had an additional request.
Mar b’rai d’Ravina ki havei mesayeim tselosei amar hachi: Elokai, n’tsor leshoni meirah u’sifosei midaber mirmah. V’limkalelei nafshi sidom v’nafshi k’afar lakol tihyeh. When …
I’ve read that when you are angry at your child you should take a deep breath and count to ten before you say anything. Every time I’m about to tell my child what she did wrong, I stop, take a deep breath, and count to ten. After I’ve done all that, I say the exact same thing in the same angry voice that I was going to say to begin with. What’s the point of breathing and counting when I end up the same, R …
The Rabbis said to Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi: Young students came today to the bais medrash and said things the likes of which were not said even in the days of Yehoshua bin Nun! (Shabbos 104a)
Why mention that the children came today?
It appears to me, b’Siyata d’Shmaya, that the Rabbis said today to emphasize that if children in earlier generations had said such insights we would not have been so surprised and impressed. B …
Ikar v’Tafel is a principle of primary and secondary importance. The level of importance has halachic ramifications in hilchos Shabbos and in liturgy.
Hamotzei oechlin pachos mi’kshir b’kli, patur af al ha’kli she’ha’kli tafela lo.
One who carries out food [in a vessel on Shabbos] less than the amount of food one is prohibited to carry, is exempt, even for carrying out the vessel [which would otherw …
Tafasta merubah, lo tafasta; tafasta mu'at, tafasta.
If you [try to] take many, you will not take [anything]; If you [try to] take a small amount, you will take [it]. (Chagigah 17a)
Feelings of anxiety often result from believing that you need to do more than you can possibly do. Unfortunately, anxiety often is expressed in the form of anger at the people and tasks you have taken onto your plate to do.
Feelings are messengers, they tell you …
