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Devarim 5764 - July 23, 2004

The Act of Knowing

Imagine if everyone saw you as you really are, as you see yourself. And you looked at everyone else and saw them as they see themselves. Our world would be a very different place, wouldn't it?
Parshah
Devarim in a Nutshell
For thirty-seven days Moses talks: recalling, reminding, rebuking, warning, promising; about the revelation at Sinai and their journeys through the desert, about spies and wars and victories and the Land, and what it’s like to serve as a leader of G‑d’s chosen people.
Meditations on Purpose

There are those who chase the infinite and find they cannot live. There are those who chase all things finite; their life is not worth living. Redemption is when the infinite is at home within our finite world
Do You Know?

Do you know what it is like to bring five kids and a stroller on a Jerusalem bus on a summer evening? Do you know what it is like to have your entire life changed forever in one split second?
Story
A Sign on the Road

"You are capable, you are capable," called the wagon driver in return. "You just don't want to!"
Relationships
Authentic Listening

Why can't I just skip the "listening part" and go straight to solving the problem?
On Shabbat Chazon ("Shabbat of Vision" -- the Shabbat preceding the Ninth of Av), we are each granted a vision of the Third Temple
— Chassidic master Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Barditchov
Print Magazine

How can you attain love of an infinite G-d? Through love of your fellow human beings.

As Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa would say, “If people like you, G-d likes you too.”

How did he know?

Because he knew that if people truly like you, it must be that you genuinely like them.

And when you hold genuine love in your heart for ...

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