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Treating Worry And Anxiety With Torah

4/30/2013

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It is so easy to fill our days with anxious thoughts of worry and dread.  The Torah actually has a cure worth trying. It won't replace proper medication, nor will it take
the place of therapy or exercise, but it will give you an extra boost of hope and calm that can help you through the day.

Why, just a little learning from Torah each day can help remind you of all the people who overcame so much in their lives to do so much good in the world.  Think of Joseph, Jacob and Moses. There was so much difficulty and heartache in their lives.  Yet they mustered their courage and were willing to take risks.  They each did it because they had one common unshakeable belief.   

They believed that God has a purpose for everything.   They understood what was outside of their  control and let go of it.  They took responsibility for what was in their control and did what they needed to do.

So too for us.  With each intentional act of letting go and getting busy, we trade our current worries and anxieties for God's eternal comfort. 

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Tiptoe Translating Station

4/17/2013

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One of the most remarkable things about the Torah is that there are no vowels or punctuation in the Hebrew. This means when it is translated, it is amazingly the same and yet strikingly different.  For example, a lot of things change when you insert a vowel. For example, with a "b"and a "d", a word can go from bed to bad to bid to bade or to bode. Take the sentence ‘Right now.’ or ‘Right now?’.  As you can see, this poses many problems.  Nonetheless, many brilliant dedicated people have translated the
Torah.  Translation station is to help you think about the language of Torah and how small choices can make big differences.  Which translation resonates best for you in your mind, heart and soul?

Listen, Israel, God is our Lord, God is One 
(Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan)

 
HEAR,  O ISRAEL; THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE.     
(Rev. Dr. A. Cohen, Editor - Soncino  Press 1956 )

Hear,  Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.  
(Robert Alter- Norton Publication 2004) 

Hear  O Israel, Hashem our God is Hashem, the sole One. 
(Rabbi Samuel Raphael Hirsch – The Judaica Press 1990)

Hearken O Israel:  YHWH our God; YHWH (is) One. 

 
(Everett Fox – Schocken Press 1995) 
 

Hear  O Israel: Hashem our God. Hashem is One
(Rabbi Yisrael Herczeg - Saperstein Rashi Edition)

Hear  O Israel! The Lords our God, the Lord alone.  
(
The Rabbincal Assembly of Conservative Judaism
Etz Hayim Edition—Jewish Publication Society )

Hear  O Israel, Hashem is our God. Hashem is One and Only.
(Rabbi
Nosson Scherman and Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz, General Editors                                                 
                                                                  
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When Freedom Comes

4/3/2013

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If you were born a slave in Egypt, then for sure you would not know how to read or write.  You
wouldn't have any time growing up to play. Your ambition in life? Not to be  assigned to heavy stone duty at the pyramid site at height of the Egyptian summer. 

Suddenly you are free from Egyptian slavery, praising God  Almighty Who brought you out of bondage. 
God provides you food to gather and you build huts for shelter.  After six days of working and
gathering, God insists on the Sabbath, a time to cease working and  gathering.  So you go from being a
slave with no control over your time to a free person who has some control over your time and complete permission from God to cease working. 
 
Shabbat is God's Gift to you and all your generations, wherever you live, whatever the work and social commitments, activities or errands.  Shabbat goes on whether you remember it  or not. It is still here, an
available gift, an obligatory gift. It is easy to forget it is a gift from God when you are too tired to open it.


And yet Shabbat offers rest and renewal. It frees you from the burdens of life.  It reminds you of
eternity.  It reawakens your  spiritual side.  It gives you time  to learn more about the Teachings of God. 
It gives you time to rediscover hope.   

Shabbat is our timeless connection to God. When you make the time for Shabbat, when you stop, even for a moment's repose, you keep that connection to the time of God's Creation of the heavens and the earth. You keep  that connection to the slaves God freed from bondage in Egypt.  You keep alive that spark between you and your fellow Jews throughout the world and throughout time.

It is just a thought, a moment among the many you can have from a Shabbat sundown to sundown. But it is a connection that spans generations and separates the holy day from the rest of the six days. Every week you get another Sabbath opportunity to bring forth holiness and reconnect. Don't let time fly away. Hop instead on the wings of the Shabbat angels and fly together.

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