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#18 The Difference Between Emunah and Bitachon – Four Levels To Emunah

#50 Bitachon – Learning to Trust HASHEM

#51 Bitachon part II- Bitachon and Hishtadlus – Finding the balance

#52 Bitachon Part III- The Maaser Shmuz

#122 - Parenting 102

#123 - Chanukah: Whose Side Are You On?

#124 - Life is Like a Box of Chocolates

#125 - Business Ethics

#129 - HaKaras HaTov: Recognizing the Good

#130 - Living With Bitachon

#131 - Working For A Living

#148 - Rich, Richer, Richest - How to be Wealthy

#149 - The System of Tshuvah

#150 - Being a Religious Atheist

#152 - In G-d's Image

#155 - Chanukah - Flexi-dox Judaism

#154 - Marriage: A Work in Progress PART II


	#18 The Difference Between Emunah and Bitachon – Four Levels To Emunah

	Did you ever notice that no one does anything wrong? It seems that no matter how clear it is to you and me that this person is engaged in self destructive behavior, he doesn't admit that he is doing something wrong or harmful; rather he comes up with an entire rationale why it is good and in fact proper. To allow for Free Will, we humans had to be given this ability to rationalize away our ...


	#50 Bitachon – Learning to Trust HASHEM

	Part one of a three-part series on Bitachon, this Shmuz focuses us on the first stage of Bitachon: learning to trust HASHEM. Amazingly the Chovos Halevovos explains to us that by nature we trust. In fact, without trust we couldn’t function. If we didn’t trust, then every time we left our home we would fear death by a car crash, an earthquake, or a tornado. Every time we entered into a business ...


	#51 Bitachon part II- Bitachon and Hishtadlus – Finding the balance

	If you want to know if your bitachon is where it should be, there’s a very simple test. Do you go into a panic when you don’t know how you’re going to pay your next bill? Do you often think that you could have been more successful if only you’d done things differently? If your answer was “yes,” then you, like most of us, need to work on bitachon. Bu...


	#52 Bitachon Part III- The Maaser Shmuz

	The Torah tells us that when Yosef Ha Tzaddik was in prison and asked Pharaoh’s wine steward to put in a good word for him, HASHEM punished him for his lack of bitachon. Doesn’t that seem a bit extreme? He was in a terrible dungeon, far worse than the prisons of today. What was wrong about making an effort to free himself? The problem lies not i...


	#122 - Parenting 102

	For thousands of years, parenting was a pretty straightforward responsibility. Society offered highly structured guidelines for behavior. Adult's roles were well-defined, as were children's roles, and throughout the strata of the community, everyone knew his place. New parents had their own parents as role models, and the techniques to use were time-tested and proven -- to fit that world. <...


	#123 - Chanukah: Whose Side Are You On?

	Chanukah centers on the ideological battle of two cultures; the hedonistic Yevanim (Greek / Syrian culture) waged war against Torah ideals. The battle was not fought for the physical survival of the Jewish nation, but rather for its ideology and way of life. Today, we live in very different times. We are no longer downtrodden and subjugated to oppressive regimes; we are free to choose ...


	#124 - Life is Like a Box of Chocolates

	Do you ever get the sense that there is always something going on? If it's not one thing, it's another. Just when you’ve finally gotten one area of your life under control, from out of nowhere crops up a whole new crisis with a completely different set of difficulties? Why is this? Why can't life just be simple? Why can't HASHEM just allow us to go about our business, work on ourselves, and...


	#125 - Business Ethics

	HASHEM created man with and an inborn need to do what is right. But one of the difficulties of ethical behavior is that on the slippery slope of life, that sense of right and wrong becomes dulled. This is especially true in the business world. The lines that distinguish honest and moral behavior from its opposite get quickly and easily blurred. In the post Enron era, when much of ...


	#129 - HaKaras HaTov: Recognizing the Good

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	#130 - Living With Bitachon

	We know that everything is from HASHEM. We also know that we must do our part -- our hishtadlus. In theory, it is easy to find the balance; I must act according to the ways of the world, knowing all the while that HASHEM runs everything. But actually personifying that tightrope walk between bitachon and proper hishtadlus is one of the great challenges of life. How hard should I b...


	#131 - Working For A Living

	We know that we were put on this planet for a few short years, to shape ourselves into who we will be for eternity. HASHEM has created this world specifically to give us the chance to mold our inner essence. We also know that the Torah and its mitzvahs are the greatest vehicles of self perfection. If so, one of the questions that a thinking person must ask themselves is, why do w...


	#148 - Rich, Richer, Richest - How to be Wealthy

	Hot, hotter, hottest. Fast, faster, fastest. In the English language we distinguish between the adjective, a descriptive word, and the superlative, an adjective taken to its extreme. Yet when we think about wealth, that distinction somehow gets lost. If I am not as rich as Bill Gates, then I am not rich. While the Torah does not guarantee that any individual will be...


	#149 - The System of Tshuvah

	We know that Tshuvah works. The Nivim told us it does, Chazal repeat it many, many times, and we even have Yom Kippur, a day created specifically for tshuvah. The question isn't whether Tshuvah works, but why I don't make use of it? Why is it that I don't stand there on Yom Kippur with tears flowing down my face, repenting, improving, ridding myself of a year's wort...


	#150 - Being a Religious Atheist

	An atheist is someone who doesn’t believe in G-d. A religious person is someone who practices a lifestyle that serves G-d. It would therefore seem obvious that “being a religious atheist” would be a contradiction in terms. Yet not only isn’t this correct, the phenomenon of religious atheists is far more prevalent than we realize. This Shmuz focuses us on some of the b...


	#152 - In G-d's Image

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	#155 - Chanukah - Flexi-dox Judaism

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	#154 - Marriage: A Work in Progress PART II

	Each one of us stands under the chuppah starry-eyed, knowing full well that we have found eternal love and bliss. Yet, something happens between that moment and real life. The reality is that getting married is easy, but staying married isn't. This Shmuz is Part II of a Marriage series that deals with the essential of creating long lasting Shalom Bayis. ...

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