Aaron Mandel is the byline under which Higgayon Press publishes its reflections.

Every reflection here is drawn from the classical Jewish sources — the Tanakh in public-domain translation, the Psalms, the works of mussar and Jewish thought, and the foundational texts of Jewish mysticism — and each quotation is cited to its origin so you can read it yourself. The authority of what we write rests on those sources, not on the author.

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