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May 24, 2023·edited May 24, 2023

I like rabbinical beard pulls. They usually (as in the parable) precede valuable outside-the-box thinking!

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As always (even when I disagreed :) ), I enjoyed this read. In what I call my Dark Days, I learned to think in terms of gratitude, to remind myself of all I had for which I was grateful, the least important being anything material. It was a wonderful lesson still with me nearly 20 years later. I recall it each night after the Sh'mah. As for Hillel, I have to crow a bit. This is my father's book: https://www.abebooks.com/9780838102190/story-Hillel-Aaron-H-Blumenthal-0838102190/plp

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May 25, 2023Liked by david roberts

Live a good life? Hillel's famous answer might also serve us well. ""What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation of this—go and study it!"

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One of my kids’ favourite books is A Squash And A Squeeze

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