Pain & Suffering
The real question we must ask is not just why we sometimes feel such acute pain, but what we are meant to learn from it.
What have I done to deserve this? And how can I make it stop? Sometimes the pain seems to be insurmountable, the suffering cruel in its intensity. But why – I am a good person! I try so hard and yet I am hit again and again with such hurt – the loss of a loved one, a broken relationship, a suffering child. Why would a good G-d allow something like this to happen? Does G-d not cry, as I do? Does G-d not feel pain, as I do? What can I do to make it go away?
Dealing with Loss and Failure, Part 4
The Chassidic Approach to Dealing with Failure. Part 4: How to Help Others Deal with Failure.
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Dealing with Loss and Failure, Part 3
The Chassidic Approach to Dealing with Failure. Part 3: How to Not be Your Own Worst Enemy.
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Dealing with Loss and Failure, Part 1
The Chassidic Approach to Dealing with Failure. Part 1: The Psychological Approach.
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Dealing with Loss and Failure, Part 2
The Chassidic Approach to Dealing with Failure. Part 2: The Spiritual Dynamics.
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The Pariah
At times, we all experience existential loneliness. The feeling of “not belonging,” that we are alone, different and isolated, without a sense of camaraderie and community.
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How to Turn Around a Negative Experience
Don’t ignore it. Don’t get get depressed by it. Instead, grow through it.
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Leave Your Past Behind
How can you leave your past behind? You must have a vision for the future. Without a vision for the future, you will gravitate toward the things that controlled you in the past.
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The Lonely G-d
The next time you feel all alone, remember two things: You are not alone; your loneliness is shared by every soul and by G-d Himself. Every essence is fundamentally alone.
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Coping with Grief
Americans have been coping with loss and grief for some time now during the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic has cut American life expectancy the largest amount in 40 years and made infectious disease the leading cause of death for the first time in a century. Families who have lost loved ones have had to postpone memorial gatherings, leaving many to cope with their losses in isolation.
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The New Moon
When G/d points out to Moses the new moon in Parshat Bo, He really shows him the threshold between evil and good and the birth from darkness to light.
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