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Real love is an experience that intensifies throughout life. It is the small, everyday acts of being together that makes love flourish. It is sharing, caring, and respecting one another.
Some real-life stories are even more beautiful than fairy tales because they hold a spark of intrinsic truth within them.
On the one hand, I saw myself traveling, working long hours, being busy with a busy career; on the other hand, I always had this desire to be a mommy.
I was informed that had I not gone out for lunch and had been sitting at my desk as usual, the end results would have been deadly.
Don’t get caught on a single-minded track just because it’s always worked for you. Be Like Jacob, and think outside the box.
We should never underestimate the power of our good behavior on others, even someone with a long history of belligerence like Esau.
The prophecy of Zechariah, that Mashiach will appear as “a poor man, riding on a donkey,” is an image frequently depicted and referred to in Jewish art and literature. Why is the imagery of a donkey associated with Mashiach?
Esau said, “I have a lot.”
Jacob said, “I have all.” As in “all I need.”
Esau had a family of six. They were called “six souls.” Plural.
Jacob had a family of seventy. They were called “seventy soul.” Singular.
Esau lived in a granular, tossed-together, fragmented world in which he collected a lot of things ...