Table Talk from the desk of Rabbi Alexander Seinfeld
August 19, 2023 • 1 Elul 5783 • Parshas Shoftim (Deut 16-21)
The purpose of this blog is to make it a conversation...please share.
As you know from last week, I'm into the idea of choices.
Despite the research that has shown that too many choices make us miserable.
Isn't the problem that we want to "have it all"? But we can't because life is too short.
And we need to sleep.
So the most important choice is what you're going to do, or think, right now.
If you're driven by a mission, then you'll choose to do right now something that takes you in that direction.
If you're not driven by a mission, you're more likely choosing reactively - based on what makes you more comfortable.
That's the ultimate daily choice: meaning versus comfort.
We're now exactly four weeks away from Rosh Hashanah. That's you and me - that's all of us.
What kind of new year do you hope to have? Are you a better human being now than you were a year ago? What kind of person do you want to be a year from now? If you had to stand before a judge or jury and justify getting another year of life, what would you say?
PS - What's your reaction to https://www.instagram.com/torahhealthandfitness/?
Despite the research that has shown that too many choices make us miserable.
Isn't the problem that we want to "have it all"? But we can't because life is too short.
And we need to sleep.
So the most important choice is what you're going to do, or think, right now.
If you're driven by a mission, then you'll choose to do right now something that takes you in that direction.
If you're not driven by a mission, you're more likely choosing reactively - based on what makes you more comfortable.
That's the ultimate daily choice: meaning versus comfort.
We're now exactly four weeks away from Rosh Hashanah. That's you and me - that's all of us.
What kind of new year do you hope to have? Are you a better human being now than you were a year ago? What kind of person do you want to be a year from now? If you had to stand before a judge or jury and justify getting another year of life, what would you say?
PS - What's your reaction to https://www.instagram.com/torahhealthandfitness/?
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