This morning I was learning Rav Wolbe’s classic Alei Shur.
I read a paragraph that made me stop and say to myself, “Did I understand that right?”
Hashkafa
Small Steps
You’ve done something amazing during the past month.
You’ve proved to yourselves that you can change.
If you can change, then you can improve.
How did you prove that you can improve?
Starting a Learning Program
Making Inspiration real
Yesterday I wrote about inspiration.
I (poetically) compared it to a vapor that quickly disperses.
One thing that made me think of inspiration this way is the phrase that occurs several times in Kohelet.
Inspiration
We’ve just ended our annual holy day marathon.
Rosh HaShanah.
Yom Kippur.
Sukkot.
Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah.
Three wonderful weeks. (I’ll just add, much more pleasant than the summer period that is usually referred to as The Three Weeks.)
The Thinking Torah Manifesto
Moshe commanded us a Torah, the inheritance of the congregation of Yaakov.
Devarim 33:4
The Written Torah is vital to the Jewish people as a whole and to each individual Jew.