May We Be Blessed With A Great day
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Who is brave, you ask?
Answer: Can we ever know?
- Not seeing inside
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The day is starting - has started, as I've been up for two hours. A fellow teacher just came in and remarked about my meta post from last night. He's a good man who chose teaching over dentistry. i will resist any lines about similarities and pulling teeth. Oops.
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The Chovat HaTalmidim writes that learning Torah is like sitting with G-d. How can anyone do that and not be happy, he wonders. He goes on to answer his own question - it's not easy. But we need to try to access that part of us that knows - Ashreinu Mah Tov Chelkeinu.
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I long to live one minute at a time. While living in the past and future is exciting - I wonder if the present has a bigger pay off. This is something I'm thinking about as I move on with today.
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Wishing everyone a great day.
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PS - Recently a colleague/friend criticized that I always end my Dvar Torahs with a blessing of -may we fulfil the ideas just brought out. He says I should just let it be, let the point stand. And that it smacks of similarity to popular cliched ending of Torah speeches. Thoughts dear readers?
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 8:35 AM
6 Comments:
Neil, that's your style (ie. how you end a d'var Torah); go with it. Everyone has a trademark of one kind or another -- your collegue should respect that.
You're a teacher who has smicha, and with that style of yours, you're combining both of those life paths of yours. Keep up the good work.
(in all honesty, I love when you extend some kind of blessing to your blog readers; I see it as a very personal touch, and we all need as many blessings as we can get :P )
it may sound cliched if you've heard it frequently, but i've never heard anyone end a devar tora like that. if i heard you do it, i'd be pleasantly surprised that it's not the usual cliches, it's something new and relevant.
i wonder if he finished off his lecture to you with--and may well fulfill what i just said ooh-mein.Brad
I personally really like the way that you end your divrei Torah's. I think that it puts your words from the passive to the active. I also like when oral diverei Torahs are given that way. If I believe that the person is speaking from the heart (as I believe you are) then why in the world would it seem cliche'd (word). Maybe your friend/collegue needs to be reminded of "sof maaseh machashavah tchilah." The whole purpose of the thought is to get to the action!
Thanks Pearl, Brad,Steg, and RR. Your words/votes of confidence mean a lot to me.
Al tehi birchas hadyot kallah b'einayhem--is not just an admonishment to not disparage the words of others. Its also a call to recognize the importance of our own brachos and not to think--we'll it doesnt matter if i wish them well or not since it would have or would not have happened anyway. It's a demand to make sure that we mention the well wishes for we dont know the power of our own tefilos regarding others.Brad
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