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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

Due to the limitations of your reality, some of your best friends can enter only incognito.

In fact, the really big ones sometimes sneak in disguised as ugly monsters and vicious enemies. Otherwise, the guards at the gate would never permit them entry.

These are the events optimists call “blessings in disguise.”

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