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Connecting the Queens Jewish Community B’Siyata D’Shmaya (With G-d’s Help) One of the great Rebbes of Israel, about whom hundreds of...
A speaker once started his seminar by holding up a $100 bill. “Who would like this $100 bill?” he asked.
Every hand in the room went up.
The second Daniel woke up, he knew something was wrong. He felt perfectly fine, but he had no memory of who he was. After searching his house, the only useful thing he could find was a book that he seemed to have written. It contained a list of instructions, explaining his life’s story and how he suffers from a form of amnesia, sometimes forgetting who he is. He had written this book as a guide for him in these situations.
It’s been said that more people become religious because of the Rebbetzin’s kugel than because of the Rabbi’s sermon.
Imagine you meet someone and immediately notice something peculiar: He walks around incessantly clapping his hands. The next day, you realize that once again he is walking around clapping his hands.
Genuine t’shuvah is not just about self-transformation; it’s about self-expression, returning to your true and higher self. As we have previously explained, there are three stages of genuine t’shuvah:
The first is individual t’shuvah, where we return to our higher selves, our fetal selves, our true selves.
The essence of life is growth and progress, as we strive to fulfill our true purpose. And as we explained in our previous article, the only way we can genuinely change, transform, and evolve is if we have the capacity to assert our inner will and to create a new reality within ourselves.
