The goal of this email is to put the PUR back into Yom Kippur. Please share.
Here's a puzzler for your Friday night dinner table:
What's black and white and read all over, and worth 36¢?
Too hard? OK, we'll come back to that.
First, a more personal question:
Now that the hard work is behind us, and Yom Kippur is so far off, what's there to do?
The answer, according to the Rambam, is.... do more.
If you are ordinarily not particularly friendly.... try to be friendly.
If you are ordinarily friendly.... be more friendly.
If you ordinarily are not particularly careful about what you say.... be careful.
If you ordinarily are careful about what you say.... be more careful.
If you ordinarily don't give tzedakah generously.... give tzedakah generously.
And if you are ordinarily generous.... now be more generous.
Once or twice a year I remind you that this blog is a project of a non-profit organization that is doing ambitious, creative work for the betterment of the Jewish People and humanity (like this, and this, and this, not to mention this
and this and this.)
Here's a puzzler for your Friday night dinner table:What's black and white and read all over, and worth 36¢?
Too hard? OK, we'll come back to that.
First, a more personal question:
Now that the hard work is behind us, and Yom Kippur is so far off, what's there to do?
The answer, according to the Rambam, is.... do more.
If you are ordinarily not particularly friendly.... try to be friendly.
If you are ordinarily friendly.... be more friendly.
If you ordinarily are not particularly careful about what you say.... be careful.
If you ordinarily are careful about what you say.... be more careful.
If you ordinarily don't give tzedakah generously.... give tzedakah generously.
And if you are ordinarily generous.... now be more generous.
Once or twice a year I remind you that this blog is a project of a non-profit organization that is doing ambitious, creative work for the betterment of the Jewish People and humanity (like this, and this, and this, not to mention this
and this and this.)
Our operating budget is funded mainly by people like you. If you find this email occasionally uplifting, thought-provoking, discussion provoking, educational or even amusing, please consider an $18 donation for the New Year. (http://jsli.org/donate/)
Doing so sends the message that this blog is worth at least 36¢ a week to you.
Is it?
A final question for your table:
If a person is normally a tzaddik - is it possible for them to become a greater tzaddik?
We have one week to practice being a greater tzaddik until the big soul-scrub next Tuesday night.
Wishing you a Shabbat Shalom and a happy Yom Kippur.
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." (Churchill)
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