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קטגוריה: Parashat Hashavua

פורסם בשבת, 21 נובמבר 2020 17:14

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PURPOSE?

The beginning of the month of Av (today) we are taught to mourn destruction of our Great Temples

In 2 weeks' time we are taught that 15th of Av was one of the Happiest Days of Ancient Israel

Why and how are we directed by 3000 years of Jewish Scholarship to adapt our FEELINGS to EVENTS ?

And what good is it to do so?

As Rabbi Carlebach used to say - (my paraphrase)

it isn't so important how much you love someone when you love them-
as how much you can love someone when you're angry at them!

FEELINGS are GREAT - but 
FEELINGS without DIRECTION and/or PURPOSE -

can be MISLEADING.

So Jewish WISDOM teaches us to LEARN TO CHANNEL feelings-

to EMPOWER US -

and to PRACTICE implementing FEELINGS within the needs of TIME - so that

we can ADD to the dimension of our HUMANITY at those critical times

when we will need to direct our feelings towards the PURPOSE in our lives.

Love and Shabbos from Jerusalem,

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

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