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Celebrating Humility
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How to Agree to Disagree (video)
The gateway to tolerance is humility; but humility must be tempered with healthy and guarded self-assurance.
The gateway to tolerance is humility; but humility must be tempered with healthy and guarded self-assurance.
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King Solomon’s Harpist
In the time of King Solomon, there lived a young shepherd by the name of Barzilai. He was a dreamer. He dreamed of strange adventures as his eyes followed silvery clouds to the distant horizon . . .
In the time of King Solomon, there lived a young shepherd by the name of Barzilai. He was a dreamer. He dreamed of strange adventures as his eyes followed silvery clouds to the distant horizon . . .
"And [Haman's] wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, 'If this Mordechai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail over him, for you will certainly fall before him.'" She said to him: This nation is compared to the stars, and to the sand [cf. Genesis 13:16 and 15:5). When they fall, they fall all the way to the sand. And when they rise, they rise all the way to the sky and the stars.
— Esther 6:13; Rashi's commentary, ibid.
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Looking at your world from Above, all is good.
Looking at your world from within, things don’t always look so nice.
Until you connect your world below to the world above. Then the goodness flows downward without distortion.
How do you make that connection? By clinging tightly above.
By putting all your trust in G‑d.
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