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Instant Repentance
Ohr Hachayim Deuteronomy: Vayelech Instant Repentance “Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without...
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Afterlife Conversations
Baal Haturim Deuteromony: Vayelech Afterlife Conversations We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared...
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Infinite Willpower
Infinite Willpower People do not lack strength; they lack will. -Victor Hugo The Talmud states that everything is in the hands of God except for the fear of God. This is translated to mean that we...
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Ingredients of Jewish Leadership A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart. -Robert Townsend Leadership and the struggles around it are an ongoing theme in the...
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Screaming to God (Vayelech) O that my tongue were in the thunder’s mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world… -William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John (Constance at III, iv) In a...
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Prophetic Clarity (Vayelech) As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers. -William Blake Moses was facing his last moments in the mortal realm. He had transferred his authority...
View ArticleEgocentric Theology (Nitzavim-Vayelech)
Egocentric Theology (Nitzavim-Vayelech) The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. -George Eliot...
View ArticleLonely Leadership (Vayelech)
Lonely Leadership (Vayelech) The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and...
View ArticleThe Harder They Fall (Vayelech)
The Harder They Fall (Vayelech) Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them. -James Barrie Perhaps one of the greatest leaders the nation of Israel...
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Tripartite Forgiveness (Nitzavim-Vayelech) God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. -Henry Ward Beecher In one of Moses’ last speeches to Israel, he declares that...
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