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When I lived in Israel, one Shabbat I was standing on the steps of the synagogue after morning services, with two friends/students. I told them a teaching of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov: "A person must either fool the whole world, or fool himself. If...
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Community is vital. In the famous story of Choni Hame'agel, in which he slept for seventy years and all his friends and family were already gone, He prayed "Either give me friendship or give me death". (I like that much better than Patrick Henry;s...
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I once went in to a health food store and asked for a good bottle of soy sauce. The store owner pointed to a shelf, where there were two kinds of soy sauce. i asked him what the difference was. He said "This one is like a musical note played on...
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