…June – Shelach – Strong People Don’t Need Walls – Rabbi Shaul Robinson 21 June – Korach – Dying Twice: Korach’s mysterious end – Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum 28 June – Chukat-Balak – Dwelling Alone: Blessing or curse? – Rabbi Shaul Robinson 5 July – Pinchas – Who is the God of the Spirits of all Flesh? – Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum 12 July…
…tomorrow and which, very often, gets disillusioned because, you know, you try and change the universe and the universe doesn’t change. I give you the obvious example of this. The spies in parsha Shelach Lecha: Out go the spies. They come back – and ten of the twelve say: We can never do it! So Moses tones God down a…
When we learn to look up, we overcome our fears. Leaders give people confidence by teaching them to look up….
We are all familiar with the idea of fear of failure. It is what keeps many of us from taking risks, preferring instead to stay within our comfort zone. No less real, though, is fear of success. We want to succeed: so we tell ourselves and others. But often unconsciously we fear what success may bring: new responsibilities, expectations on…
The Jewish task is not to fear the real world but to enter and transform it, healing some of its wounds and bringing to places often shrouded in darkness fragments of Divine light….
Has anyone yet identified the narrative of which it and we are a part? I believe that the story we tell affects the decisions we make. Get the story wrong and we can rob an entire generation of their future. Get it right, as did Joshua and Caleb, and we can achieve greatness….
Never let negative emotions distort your perceptions. To see the world as it is, not as you are afraid it might be, let faith banish fear….