I love lighting Shabbat candles at the onset of Shabbat. It helps me create a strong and firm demarcation of time.

- Erica Brown

For me, study is a divine and daily imperative, and I study a page of Talmud daily so that I am not only teaching. My teaching is constantly being fe…

- Erica Brown

Teaching is almost like an act of prayer for me. I feel that I am present at the intersection of people and ideas in a very holy way. There are not m…

- Erica Brown

For some reason, I write about crash-landed spaceships quite a lot and my wife is sick of hearing of hearing my ideas for new tales about them.

- Erica Brown

If our writing is worth anything at all, then we have to put ourselves into it.

- Erica Brown

If people are not safe, they will not make themselves vulnerable. If they feel too comfortable, they can become complacent or lose their curiosity. T…

- Erica Brown

I took to religion at about age 12; it was very hard for me to be Sabbath observant as a kid in a home which was not Sabbath observant. I think my pa…

- Erica Brown

I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfor…

- Erica Brown

In every life there is a challenge. For every challenge that I take on, if I follow through, I accomplish. When I have accomplished, then I have achi…

- Erica Brown