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Backing Up Our Hearts
Our first thoughts are holy. Inscribe them on your heart.
Rabbi Yaacov Haber
Where Did All The Leaders Go?
Shoftim is about leadership. We get the leadership we deserve, demand and open ourselves up to.
Rabbi Yaacov Haber
Approaching The Finish Line
We all celebrate great beginnings but greatness is in the projects that get finished
Rabbi Yaacov Haber
Parashas Shoftim: Royal Retrospection
This week’s Time magazine questions the tendency of Americans to judge presidential candidates based on troubles they have gone through. It seems that we are more interested in a President with a troubled childhood or a war experience than a president who is good at being a president.
The writer is right and wrong. He is wrong, because we are taught that we are the product of our experiences. If Hashem gives us a test it is specifically so that we can develop the character traits need to make it through. Just as someone training for a marathon learns to push herself to the limits, a person who has had a tough experience and prevailed has presumably developed himself or herself more completely as a person.
On the other hand, past performance is no guarantee of future results. People forget the lessons that they learned and they can forget where they came from.
Rabbi Sender Haber
