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A Diamond is a Diamond is a Diamond!
It gets dirty; it can even lose its shine. But a diamond always remains a precious stone.

Monday, September 21, 2009

By Benyamin Bresinger

That’s what Yom Kippur does. It’s the annual buffing of the soul. The soul, like the diamond, always remains precious.

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Posted: Sep 25, 2009

Restoring the Diamond

there is a Torah verse connected with returning to G-d that speaks of stumbling: when the legs trip over something, causing the person to fall, the head follows too. But that is not the person, that is the natural consequence of stumbling. The person's head ended up on the ground only because his legs tripped. With G-d's help he can be righted, and resume being the intact individual he was created to be before he fell (tripped, used, drank, abused, etc)

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Rabbi Benyamin Bresinger has worked with addicts for twenty years. He is the creator of a national seminar which integrates kabbalah and the 12 steps of Alcohol Anonymous, and the director of Chabad Project PRIDE, an addiction crisis drop-in center in Montreal.

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Rabbi Benyamin Bresinger is a pastoral counselor who has worked with addicts for twenty years. He is the creator of a highly successful national seminar which integrates kabbalah and the 12 steps of Alcohol Anonymous, and the director of Chabad Project PRIDE, an addiction crisis drop-in center in Montreal.

A Diamond is a Diamond is a Diamond!It gets dirty; it can even lose its shine. But a diamond always remains a precious stone.

A Diamond is a Diamond is a Diamond!
It gets dirty; it can even lose its shine. But a diamond always remains a precious stone.