Shabbat Shalom!!

@eliyanah-jordan-yarden -- thanks for keeping me going with the Hebrew studies. I really enjoy getting together with you and Billy to go over what we've learned during the current week. Have a great 3 weeks off. We'll resume soon after David and I get back home. Shalom for now.

A tzaddik is one who has transcended the “World of Separation” (corresponding to the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil) and connected to the “World of Unity” (the Tree of Life). Having harmonized his elements, he becomes the single source element that unites them all.

@judy-howard , @julie-brunner , @eliyanah-jordan-yarden , @bayli-brewer , and anyone else who is interested. We'd like to start Conversational Hebrew Level ONE very soon. Probably two or three times per week. Perhaps in the morning. Need to hear from those who are interested as to what would work best. It's a fun way to learn the language and can give you a "leg up" on your Biblical Hebrew, too, perhaps. What about the kids out there? @william-gavriel-jordan , @timothy-hadar-jordan . @caleb.-jordan , @kaitlyn-jordan == Brewer kids? Let me hear from you all and well see what and when we can get started. Thanks!

If your children receive their education proper in [public] non-Jewish . . . institutions where the instruction ignores the Jewish element and . . . where, moreover, your children spend the greater and best part of the day; and if they then, having completed their homework and envying their colleagues their leisure, have to attend the lesson of a “Hebrew” teacher—who himself may be greatly inferior to the child’s other teachers in general education and knowledge, or who has in his heart no enthusiasm for the Judaism with which he is supposed to inspire his students—if thus general education is imparted by the best and most appropriate methods, while “Hebrew” has to be content with such time, energy and teaching as can be found for it after other subjects have taken off the cream, you will frequently learn to your distress that your children are interested in everything but Hebrew; that all their teachers are satisfied with your children except the “Hebrew” teacher; that instruction in all subjects bears fruit in your children while Hebrew instruction cannot even take root, and your children, being eternally and painfully tied down to elementary studies, learn to know Judaism and its study only as a nuisance. "Judaism eternal,I,171"

Having one of ny bad days. Not complaining since I get to be still and read.

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The Two Faces of Cold Indifference

Amalek waged war against Israel and took back a captive from them.
(Bamidbar 21:1)

Amalek first attacked the Jewish people when they were on the way to receive the Torah and again as they were preparing to enter the Land of Israel.

Similarly, our inner Amalek first attempts to cool our enthusiasm toward G-d and His Torah. As long as we are fulfilling our religious obligations, this might not seem to pose such a problem. But if we approach our Divine mission without warmth and enthusiasm, we will eventually lose interest in it, seeking diversions that offer more immediate material or spiritual gratification.

If our inner Amalek fails to cool our enthusiasm, it will attempt to take over our life in the "land," i.e., the material life we enter after our daily prayers and studies. It will argue, "Be holy while you're praying and studying the Torah, but when you're earning your living and dealing with the physical world, live by my rules."

Although this may sound like the voice of a clever businessman, we must recognize it as the voice of Amalek. Despite its concessions to our spiritual endeavors, its goal is to destroy us. The only proper response to Amalek is to wipe it out, by constantly renewing our enthusiasm for G-d and His Torah, and our desire that G-d be our guide in all aspects of life.

--From Kehot's Daily Wisdom

@amy-mccullar -- looking forward to seeing you very soon. Will be picking up our trailer sometime on July 3 and staying at the RV park with Brewers for about 10 days. Have missed you, my friend.

So much to think about and so much to plan and so much to execute!!! My brain and body are starting to rebel. I keep reminding myself to take each day as it comes, do what you can and not to sweat the small stuff. And...once upon a time...someone much wiser that me said" It's ALL small stuff!!"

@judy-howard and @julie-brunner : if you could both be on Cup of Joe today at 12:45 CDT, perhaps we could make a plan for the Level I Hebrew study? There might be others that would want to join us, too. I have some ideas that might be helpful. Hope to see you both there.