Getting Unstuck

I happened to stumble upon your lectures and they are exactly what I needed to hear. Your words are much appreciated. I'm not a person of faith, but your words have really touched me.

Dear Rabbi Taub, Thank you so much for a candid enlightning insightly lecture! The work of counting the Omer and working on the particular character trait of each day of the Omer period is, Then, the method you advise and claim can clean one of his undesirable flawed traits of character and start life with a new slate ready to receive Revelation. And also. you say, every single day when we wake up we are a complete new being, like a newborn-me, if we chose to see it so. IS THIS SO? Habits, especially bad ones, die hard. And what about memory of who we 'were'? Could you please, advise , on systematic methods with steps about how to go about 'unstucking' oneself, at times others than the Omer, the rest of the year?

Rabbi Taub,

Thank you for a very interesting and inspiring lecture. I had a question about self help and therapy. Are you suggesting that we cannot affect real change through say self help or even therapy without first admitting complete powerlessness? Thank you.

Seems very familiar. There's a self-help / human potential movement group that uses the term racket to describe patterns of behavior we learned at an early age (similar to 7yrs mentioned here), which initially developed as coping mechanisms we fall back on, but in the end can get in the way of intimacy. They teach you to recognize when you're hiding behind them.

I don't think I am the only woman who ever wondered "What was HaShem been thinking of"? All that work for what seemed a silly nighttime search for chametz 'planted' throughout the house using a candle, a feather and a wooden spoon it had to be midieval. [OK, that part is fun for the kids.]

For the first time I actually "get" the whole crazy clean, clean clean thing. (I admit that up until next Pesach I never turned out every pocket or laundered every piece of clothes owned thinking 'that rule was for when people only had two pieces of clothes per person'.)

It's a spiritual inventory!

A brilliant way to search for the things owned and evaluate them for their value.

I get it! I get it!

that was soooo good! thank you!

Dear Rabbi Taub,
Thank you for this wonderful lecture. I have found something today that I was trying to understand. Now I see that it is all in the Hands of Hashem. I remember many months ago asking him to help me be "born" again. I needed for this to happen. Back then, I did not know really what I was asking Him for. Now I realize that Hashem is transforming my ego. There is still much to learn. I only hope to follow through in His Path understanding on by relying on His Infinite compasion. Hashem, blessed be He, has given you a wonderful gift, teaching the down troddened to lilft themselves up. This is a very special gift that not that many people attain. Only through the Love, and Compassion of Hashem, blessed be He. Healing comes only through Hashem, but words can bring us to an understanding. And the Word of Hashem, is powerful. He said it is not by power but My Spirit. Thank you so much for your efforts in bringing this revelation from Hashem. Blessed be He. And blessings to U

Excellent lecture, and a blessing. Thank you so much.

Thanks :)

Thank you for making this accessible to the world. You hit the nail on the head. The end story was beautiful.

Thank you