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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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  • Mastering Anger XIII

    5. CHOOSE CONSTRUCTIVE (NOT SELF-DESTRUCTIVE) EXPRESSIONS OF ANGER: Many people take Freud's ...

  • Mastering Anger XII

    4. FIND CONSTRUCTIVE WAYS TO RELEASE YOUR HIGH ENERGY AND AROUSAL: You have heard the express...

  • Spiritual Tools: The Cab Ride

    I received the following story in an email and thought how appropriate the message is for Elu...

  • Mastering Anger X

    2. BE ASSERTIVE--Seek "Win-Win" Solutions: If you are angry at someone, focus on your top goa...

  • Mastering Anger IX

    8.Remember, "IT'S THE WAY OF THINGS" “My wife Sherry and I have developed a simple formula fo...

  • Mastering Anger VIII

    7. CHOOSE HAPPINESS INSTEAD OF ANGER--"My anger hurts me more than it hurts you" Holding on t...

  • Mastering Anger VII

    6. EXAMINE UNDERLYING EXPECTATIONS: Unfulfilled expectations can lead to anger. What are your...

  • Mastering Anger VI

    5. ARE YOU "HOLDING ON" TO THE ANGER (OR HURT) FOR MOTIVATION?Do you "hold on to your anger" ...

  • Mastering Anger V

    Accept reality and forgive. Some of our anger may stem from a belief that others have unfairl...

  • Mastering Anger IV

    4. IS "FAIRNESS" OR "JUSTICE" AN UNDERLYING ISSUE? So often our expectations are the keys to ...

  • Pain Is Part of Happiness

    Happiness is not your reward for escaping pain. It demands that you confront negative feeling...

  • Mastering Anger III

    3. ASSUME THE BEST INTENTIONS (whenever possible) To the degree that Mike believed his wife's...

  • The Olympic Secret of Happiness

    I always ask: After the gold medal winner, who is happier at the Olympics?The silver medal wi...

  • Mastering Anger II

    1. EXPLORE EMOTIONS OF HURT AND FEAR UNDERLYING THE ANGERRemember that anger stems from fear ...

  • Finding Happiness

    Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You...

  • Mastering Anger Part I

    ANGER IS AN EMOTION THAT CENTERS ON GETTING CONTROLSomeone calls you an "inconsiderate idiot,...

  • The Fear Underneath

    I am often asked to post new “Tools” to deal with anger. I recently read “Life Lessons” by El...

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  • Keter Shem Tov 66

    “I searched for my soul’s beloved, but I did not find him.”(1) G•d, the King of Kings, concea...

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The Torah Connection: Rosh Hashanah Prayers: Hot & Cold Print E-mail
Written by Rabbi Yaakov Shlomo Weinberg   

ShofarThere are times when a person davens (prays) full of hergesh (feeling and emotion) with tears streaming down his face. The words just seem to flow by themselves.
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The Torah Connection: Laws of Prayer Print E-mail
Written by Rabbi Yaakov Shlomo Weinberg   

PrayerTefillah B’Tzibur (with a Minyan – Ten People “As for me, may my prayer to You Hashem be be’eis ratzon, at an opportune time …”
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The Torah Connection: Teshuva Issues Print E-mail
Written by Rabbi Yaakov Shlomo Weinberg   

Rosh HashanahDin and Rachamim Ramchal asks – how is it possible for teshuvah (repentance) to help? “…Indeed how can one correct that which he ruined – and the sin was
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The Torah Connection: Keil Melech Yosheiv Print E-mail
Written by Rabbi Yaakov Shlomo Weinberg   

Rosh HashanahDuring Selichos, whether those revolving around the Yomim Nora’im (Days of Awe) or on fast days, before the Yud Gimmel Midos Rachamim (the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy)
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Torah Reading: First Day Rosh Hashanah: The Comfortable Devil Print E-mail

GolemA more earthbound version of the Devil appears in Dostoevsky'sThe Brothers Karamazov. His character Ivan had a very strong sense of the earth’s evil. Unable to

 

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Rosh Hashanah Prayers: And They Shall Form One Group Print E-mail

UnityThe preacher Harry Williams believed: "We all have experience of two types of feeling. There is the feeling which unites us to our world and makes us
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Rosh Hashanah Prayers: Foreign, Indifferent, & My Choice Print E-mail

Rosh HashanahCheckerboard pieces are indifferent. Dice are indifferent. How do I know in what way they will fall? But once the dice have fallen, to use that cast carefully and skillfully
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Table Talk: The 13 Attributes of Compassion Print E-mail

Table TalkWe begin to recite the Thirteen Attributes of Compassion with Selichot early Sunday morning. The Foundation Stone is proud to offer definitions and Spiritual Exercises to emulate God's Attributes and incorporate them

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Teshuva in Responsa XIV Print E-mail

ResponsaA Responsum of the Sho’eil U’Meishiv dated 1862 is addressed to Rav Michael Hubner, Rabbi of Nizhnov, where a man had served as a teacher of children for fifteen years. During that time he
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Teshuva in Responsa XIII Print E-mail

ResponsaRabbi Ben Zion Uziel (1880-1953), the Rishon Le-Tzion, was an acknowledged Rabbinic authority. His Responsa collections Mishpete Uziel contain a number of theological discussions.
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