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“When the Holy One, blessed is He, created His world, He created it like an infant born from its mother. For a fetus born from the mother, begins from its navel and expands outward to all four directions so too, the Holy One, blessed is He, began to create the world from the Foundation Stone and from that, the entire world was established.” - Midrash Tanchuma – Pikudei #3
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5. CHOOSE CONSTRUCTIVE (NOT SELF-DESTRUCTIVE) EXPRESSIONS OF ANGER: Many people take Freud's ...
4. FIND CONSTRUCTIVE WAYS TO RELEASE YOUR HIGH ENERGY AND AROUSAL: You have heard the express...
I received the following story in an email and thought how appropriate the message is for Elu...
2. BE ASSERTIVE--Seek "Win-Win" Solutions: If you are angry at someone, focus on your top goa...
8.Remember, "IT'S THE WAY OF THINGS" “My wife Sherry and I have developed a simple formula fo...
7. CHOOSE HAPPINESS INSTEAD OF ANGER--"My anger hurts me more than it hurts you" Holding on t...
6. EXAMINE UNDERLYING EXPECTATIONS: Unfulfilled expectations can lead to anger. What are your...
5. ARE YOU "HOLDING ON" TO THE ANGER (OR HURT) FOR MOTIVATION?Do you "hold on to your anger" ...
Accept reality and forgive. Some of our anger may stem from a belief that others have unfairl...
4. IS "FAIRNESS" OR "JUSTICE" AN UNDERLYING ISSUE? So often our expectations are the keys to ...
Happiness is not your reward for escaping pain. It demands that you confront negative feeling...
3. ASSUME THE BEST INTENTIONS (whenever possible) To the degree that Mike believed his wife's...
I always ask: After the gold medal winner, who is happier at the Olympics?The silver medal wi...
1. EXPLORE EMOTIONS OF HURT AND FEAR UNDERLYING THE ANGERRemember that anger stems from fear ...
Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You...
ANGER IS AN EMOTION THAT CENTERS ON GETTING CONTROLSomeone calls you an "inconsiderate idiot,...
I am often asked to post new “Tools” to deal with anger. I recently read “Life Lessons” by El...
To All My Dear Friends and Family (FYI- NITZAVIM: 40 PESUKIM, 657 WORDS, 2575 LETTERs - VAYE...
Shalom Aleichem tells the story about an old man on a crowded bus. A young man standing next...
"Today you are all standing before G•d your L•rd..even your woodcutters and water carriers." ...
There are times when a person davens (prays) full of hergesh (feeling and emotion) with tears...
A series of questions about the parsha: 1) Nitzavim is known as the Parsha of Teshuva, as it ...
We have a tradition that the topic discussed at the end of a parsha always connects to the to...
The Chiddushei Harim asks that the gemarrah says that each day a Bas Kol goes out from shamay...
"Let us keep in mind what Thrasea, the mildest of men and for that reason also the greatest, ...
Isaiah Chapter 61:10-63:1: The prophet begins this final vision of consolation and redemption...
The Foundation Stone is honored to present a new column by HaRav David Lapin, iAwaken.org, on...
As I said in The Music of Halacha: A Plea for Participation, my objective is to spark convers...
My friends and I work at a company with many people, including many non-Jews. We consciously ...
We do not have to wait for a difficult situation to arise to practice the laws of Bein Adam L...
I received the following comment in response to The Music of Halacha: A Case Study: Was the f...
In an earlier Music of Halacha, Forgiveness II, I invited people to send in descriptions of di...
“How could you do such a thing?” No, that doesn’t work. “I admire so much about you, but…” Th...
The previous essay focused on Halacha’s demand that we recognize the inner stimulus to rebuke...
Wow! Many people were upset by the introduction to the Laws of Rebuke. In other words, I rece...
על שלשה דברים העולם עומד: על התורה, ועל העבודה, ועל גמילות חסדים The world stands upon th...
In the last edition, robbers hidden in the mountains observed the Baal Shem Tov experience a ...
The Baal Shem Tov taught: Regarding thoughts1, there are many different types of thoughts, so...
The Baal Shem Tov taught: When one feels that one’s service of G•d is not going well1, one sh...
In the last installment, Reb Moshe, the son of Rabbi Adam Baal Shem, left the world, and Yisr...
“G•d saw that [Moses] went to look, and He called out to him, ‘Moses, Moses.’”1 The Baal Shem...
The Baal Shem Tov taught: “Avoid evil and do good.”[1] This means avoid evil by transforming ...
“I searched for my soul’s beloved, but I did not find him.”(1) G•d, the King of Kings, concea...
Rosh Hashanah, a time to reflect and to return, a time to look back and glean on the lessons ...
In my very first year as an observant Jew, I stood by as I overheard a man wearing a yarmulke...
Elul is the month that precedes the Day of Judgment. How do we relate to our Creator at this ...
The Torah tells us of the blessings and the curses. (Devarim 11:26) It tells us that if we li...
I just finished reading “Life Lessons” by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler: ‘Two Exper...
This is the time on the Jewish calendar of Nachamu (comfort}. We reconnect with our Creator a...
Can my friend have a problem that does not affect me? Can I avoid being touched by my enemy’s...
It was Tisha b'av, the time on the calendar that we lost our temples. I entered the synagogue...
By now, we have been praying for our temple to be rebuilt for thousands of years. The Three...
It happened to Adam, the first man, to Joseph, to Moshe, to Miriam, to King Shaul, to Ruth, a...
“He has secured wise counsel for the upright; it is a shield for those who walk in innocence....
“For God grants wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.” (Proverbs 2:6) We b...
“For God grants wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.” (Proverbs 2:6) Rabb...
“For only if you call out to understanding and give forth your voice to discernment, if you s...
“For only if you call out to understanding and give forth your voice to discernment, if you s...
“For only if you call out to understanding and give forth your voice to discernment, if you se...
“My child: If you accept My words and treasure My commandments with yourself.” (Proverbs 2:1)...
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