What Are You Thankful For?
What Are You Thankful For?
Greetings & Blessings,
Yesterday was the American holiday of Thanksgiving -
a special day set aside to enjoy our blessings.
But why focus on the things we’re grateful for
on only one day a year?
The beautiful prayers and blessings in the
siddur (Jewish prayerbook) teach us to thank
G-d for every little thing, all day long.
In just the morning blessings alone, we thank G-d for:
- returning our soul to us in the morning
- a body that works properly
- a soul that is pure
- we can see
- we can straighten ourselves
- we have clothes to wear
- we have strength
- we are not slaves
- we have a loving G-d to guide us
So, I’d like to know – what are you grateful for?
What Are You Thankful For?
Tell us in the comments below!
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Inspirational Quotes
Heard From Rabbi Shlomo Holland
Am I sensitive to all that is done for me?
Am I sensitive to all that is given to me?
Do you recognize all of the good in your life?
From whom do you receive all good?What is the way to love g-d?
Gratitude
What can you give to the one who has given you everything?
….gratitude
Giving is seeing yourself inside of someone else.
Receiving is seeing someone else inside of you.
This is the only way to be thankful to g-d.
Love is generated in the act of giving.
How does a giver receive?
A giver wants to give back 10 times over what s/he receives.
At the very least, the giver gives thanks from the heart.
In any given moment in time we either give, take or receive.
When we GIVE, we emulate our creator.
TAKERS believing that they deserve everything
and feel no need to be grateful for anything.
No matter how much they have, it is never enough.
They are not capable of loving anyone.
With Hakaros Hatov (gratitude), the receiver becomes the giver.
I return all that I am, all that I own, all that I desire,
I uproot from myself and return it all to the Ribono Shel Olam (Master of the Universe).
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This Month’s Soul Tip
We are in the Hebrew month of Cheshvan.
This month is sometimes called Mar (bitter) Cheshvan
because we are bitter by the lack of holidays in this month.
After the intensity of all of the holidays of Tishrei:
Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkos, Simchas Torah,
one might think that because Cheshvan has no holidays
it is somehow less important.
After the long days of prayer, fasting, feasting,
and all night dancing and farbrengens
(uplifting gatherings of Torah thoughts, stories and song),
Cheshvan feels… well, sort of flat.
While Tishrei is the time for charging our spiritual batteries,
Cheshvan is the time to integrate that intense spiritual energy
into our daily lives and the physical world in order to fulfill our G-dly purpose.
So what is our G-dly purpose?
While we each have unique talents and missions,
collectively we all have a mandate to transform
and elevate the mundane things of this world into the spiritual.
In this way we make every day a holy day.
The spiritual energy of this month
is to take the inspiration of the month of Tishrei,
and use our fortified spiritual powers
to make every day holy by serving G-d with our plain days
and our littleness, with our weakness and our darkness.
Here’s your
Soul Adventure for today:
Try Rabbi Tauber’s Shabbat dinner custom.
Go around the table and give each person the opportunity
to thank G-d for whatever happened during the week.
There is one important rule, though.
No kvetching!!!
As Rabbi Tauber says, six days of the week we can kvetch all we want,
but on Shabbos it’s the time to appreciate everything G-d does for us.
In addition to brightening us up spiritually,
this custom reveals surprising feelings, events, and insights
that we might not otherwise discover about our family and friends.
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May you always be grateful for EVERYTHING
(and always have what to be grateful for)!
Have a happy, healthy, & holy Shabbos!
Rae Shagalov
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Where is your life out of balance?
What’s missing in your life? What feels like “not enough?”
What would you like to reduce or eliminate?
What small change can you make feel
that your life is more balanced?
I am grateful for the opportunity to witness nachos in my children.
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Thank you for your uplifting messages and affirmations. May the Lord of Hosts watch over you eternally.
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