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to be a Jew is to cry out, even when silence would be safer, easier, and more convenient.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
How do you choose the doctors, lawyers, plumbers, and car mechanics that you need in your life? You seldom select them on the basis of their technical knowledge or their academic qualifications. Here is the shocking truth: You actually choose them on the basis of their business skills. How they build their practices, how they market themselves, how
... See moreRabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
person who has to have contact with non-Jews for business purposes must be very careful to see that his sanctity as a Jew is not affected. It is dangerously easy to get caught in their net, God forbid. He should always be steadfast and remind himself constantly of the holiness which is his heritage as a Jew. He should pray to God not to be
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Don’t just passively read the bad news that is broadcast everywhere; rather, actively look for the good news that is quietly happening all around you!
Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson • Positivity Bias
not only are you facing the truth, but you are also nudging yourself closer to possessing a more modest demeanor.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
Now you must grow in that job, always seeking new areas to expand your responsibilities and continually seeking ways to enhance your usefulness.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
A person who genuinely wants to conduct his business with faith and honesty must guard his faith very carefully from any possible flaw. He must be as scrupulous as Rav Safra, (see Makhoth 24a) and he must “speak the truth in his heart” (Psalms 15:2). Even if he merely decided something in his heart, he must not change it later on. If he guards his
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daily encounters large and small, we are challenged to remember that our animating commitment is to love others, and that our personal mandate is to grow in love.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
One of the first questions that new acquaintances ask one another is “What do you do?” or “What field are you in?” You need to be able to answer that question with no more than about 20 seconds of description. What is more, you need to answer that question in a way that sounds absolutely fascinating and that almost compels your interlocutor to ask
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