Seeing the good in everything - Rabbi Alon Anava

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THANK YOU 🙏 FOR YOUR TEACHINGS !!👍👌💖 WERE SO LUCKY TO HAVE YOU ❤️ !! GOD BLESS YOU 🙏🙏🙏...AND YOUR FAMILY ! .... SENDING YOU LOTS OF HUGS 🤗🤗🤗 FROM CANADA 🇨🇦

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Amen! Very blessed to have you and all you do! Thank you as always! :)

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Blessings Rabbi Alon Anava. Thank you for this message.

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Toda raba

[@dsherter]

Dear rabbi Anava - and we have spoken before, and my profound thanks for your previous correspondence - I don't know if it would help any of your readers, but I at times have felt very tortured by my own negativity - not just that I've found myself kvetching in the face of plenty, but on top of that (or rather at the base of this experience) I feel anger and shame at myself for that aspect of my character. When I grasp and accept that this aspect of my character is also "God made" it allows me to let go of my anger at myself, and lo and behold the other frustrations also start to drop off. I find that my dissatisfactions with my world are at bottom simply frustration and dissatisfaction with myself. When I enter into trust that even those aspects of myself I see as undesirable come from global goodness, I feel the most *intense* and *profound* relief, and the rest of life is easier! The cultural habit of whipping one's self into a frenzy...not such a great habit always! But as someone in my family once said, the great thing about hitting your hand with a hammer...it feels SO GREAT when you stop :)!

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To go a little further: Easier than "trying to see the good in everything" is to give the universe credit of doubt, and adopt a wait-and-see attitude, with the expectation that the lotus will flower from the mud, and *also* to look at the so-called misfortunes in your life, and those of those you love and the gifts those problems brought. Among the bravest, wisest, best of souls are those who have faced the most profound hardships, and even have as a result have fallen into error because they have had to dig the deepest wells of humility, and self forgiveness. Those who have had to forgive themselves are those least likely to condemn others, and most likely to recognize the diamond in your coal! I think maybe that one way to avoid hardship is to learn to see that good immediately and then no troubles need to crop up to force one's hand!

[@MecConnect180]

George Carlin once said: some see the glass half full; others see it half empty. I see a glass twice as big as it needs to be. Thank you Rabbi for your inspiration.

[@joaquimdiascardososalgueir9176]

That's certain that even the death can be a deliverance but the instinctif fight for life and security is also part of God's gift, I think.

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Rabbi I am from Las Vegas and after the mass shooting here I’m having such a hard time making sense of it.

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🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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