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Hermeneutics is the scholarly term for rules of Biblical interpretation. The Talmud records several methodologies. One is the Seven Rules of Hillel. These were later expanded by Rabbi Yishmael into thirteen rules (or Middot). These are actually...
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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
LIFE-CHANGING IDEAS IN SEFER DEVARIM • DEVARIM: If you seek to change someone, make sure that you are willing to help them when they need your help, defend them when they need your defence, and see the good in them, not just...
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When you stand before God to pray for your needs, to be saved from your lower nature which always lies in ambush, you should feel as though you’re like a man alone in a tiny boat on the open sea, with the abyss right below you, ready to swallow...
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Azamra: See No Evil?
In the previous Azamra post, the Rebbe tells us that it’s a requirement—not an option—that we judge others favorably. We learn that when we do, we can literally change them from dark to light, from meritless to meritorious....
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Azamra: Judging Others
Know and Understand!
A person must judge everyone favorably. Even if someone is completely bad, it is necessary to search and find in him some modicum of good; the little bit of him that is not wicked. And by finding in him...
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In his lesson “Azamra!” Rebbe Nachman teaches how important it is to look for the good in others. Our Sages told this story to illustrate what it means to judge someone favorably: A man from the Upper Galilee hired himself out to an employer in...
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Listen. Really Listen. Eikev 5778
Some 20 or so years ago, with the help from the Ashdown Foundation, I initiated a conference at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, on the future of Jewish peoplehood. I feared the...
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First things first... The root of it all… The meaning of life…
Why are we here?
Chapter one does a thorough job answering the age-old question. Our ultimate goal is not our career, children, legacy, or inheritance. Our true purpose is not in...
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Azamara: Look for the good points. In others. In ourselves. This brings us to joy. The joy washes over us and we are able to talk to God and create a relationship with Him. This is the essence of Azamra.
{{This is quite lengthy so I am deviding...
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