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The AYIN TOVAH (Good EYEs) Have It

14th Cheshvan 5785 Daily Mussar LIFE Lesson עֲHebrew Letter AYIN (Numerical value = 70)The EYES have it.  Or better still, the AYINs have it.  Have what? Whatever it contains through acquiring – good or bad, optimal function or utter dysfunction!This Hebrew letter AYIN עַ literally means ‘eye’ as in the physical eye. It also connotes a ‘fountain’.  Can you SEE the connection? […]

BRANDing

I recently ran into a friend who happens to own an online clothing line. She’s Divine, indeed…always looking beautifully spry! She’s also a believer in Messiah!  We have great talks when we meet over breakfast.  The first thing I said to her was ‘You look fabulous…I mean, you ARE your BRAND!’  She replied, ‘You get […]

The Lesson of LIGHT אוֹר

One of the first lessons I help a Mussar student learn/receive is THE LESSON OF LIGHT. Just observe the light of a candle’s flame in the dark. What do you see? What does the Light DO? One observation is that it simply GIVES. It doesn’t insist on reciprocity in order to give. Many observations can […]

Hems and Struggling WITH The Divine One

2nd Adar 5784 THE YEAR OF THE OPEN DOOR 2.11.24We aren’t so much scared of being ‘alone’ as we might be scared of ‘being alone in the struggle’. What I mean by this is without properly guided thoughts, ordered thinking – we STRUGGLE. Some of our minds are mostly ‘at peace’…others of us, not so […]

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The Goad leading to Dedication

29th Tishrei 5784 THE YEAR OF THE DOOR 10.14.23Is there a difference between LEARNING and TRAINING?WHICH is more important? If you are the Hebrew student, you will shout an unequivocal YES!Spiritual Education for the mind: TEACHING/LEARNING (Lamad)Spiritual Bootcamp for the soul: TRAINING/PRACTICING (Chanak)One is about LEARNING INFORMATION giving ‘the entire mind’.The other is about EXPERIENCING […]

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The Invitation

The kind of transformative change we all truly desire in our lifetime will not come without THE SHEMA OF SURRENDERING in the Face/Voice of ADONAI Eloheinu.Practically, this DAILY ACTION requires FIRST HEARING THE VOICE OF HASHEM given by His Ruach of Emet followed by the ‘no-excuse game’ of CONSISTENCY in daily salvific restoration ofRising up […]

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Shameless.

    The purpose of Mussar (spiritual discipline) is to RECEIVE. As we RECEIVE, we see how to RESPOND and far less likely to REACT to life’s problems and pleasures. Receiving THE RUACH’s COUNSEL that = STRENGTH TO HEAL (understand the Vision of MenOHRah) will also involve doing away with ‘feelings of shame’ that may […]

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