PRAYING FROM YOUR BUMPER CAR
PRAYING FROM YOUR BUMPER CAR Parashat Bo We are all moving around in this world, as if we were bumper cars. In the amusement park, riding around on the bumper cars, it feels like you are driving. It feels like other people are driving, and they bump into you, and you need to dodge them.…
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DON’T BE A WHY’S GUY Parashat Vaera I recall one of my father’s great lessons to my family as we grew up. ! למה? ככה Why? Because! In coaching we were taught the power of a question. The greater the questions one asks, the greater the person. The less intelligent the questions one asks, the less…
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PSYCHO-ARCHAEOLOGY Parashat Shemot There is a quote from Menachem Medel from Kotsk: “I do not want followers who are righteous; rather, I want followers who are so busy doing good that they don’t have time to do bad.” Some problems in life don’t have solutions. Some tendencies can’t be uprooted. Call it Habit. Call it…
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THE JEWISH GHETTOS Parashat Vayechi It takes 10 hours by plane to get to Eretz Yisrael from America. But once you are here in Eretz Yisrael, it takes 10 years to get America out of you. To get into the zone of “spirituality over luxury”. Yehudah took Yosef out of the pit and sold him…
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PAIN IN THE NECK Parashat Vayigash When the goblet of Yosef was found in Binyamin’s bag, all the brothers of the Tribe started to hit Binyamin on his neck saying, “Thief! Son of a thief! Just as your mother stole the idols from her father Lavan’s house, you, too, followed in her footsteps and stole…
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