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Trial and Difficulties in Life
articles on Trial and Difficulties in Life
Modernity And Tradition
The modern world is terribly complicated, yet none of us would be willing to revert back to life as it was known in pre-modern times.
Motivation to do
A motivation video for handling difficulties in daily life, production: Ha'inu Ke'cholmim
Stress is Good For You!
A 3 minutes Video about Parashat Vayeshev explaining why stress is good.
The Unwelcome Reality
Our mortality, which is our reality, constantly haunts us through our lives. The challenge is not to allow that reality to so affect our lives.
Lessons on Trial and Difficulties in Life
Tragedies
We all know that tragedy eventually awaits us in one form or another, but we do not and cannot live our lives based on the fear of impending tragedies or inevitable troubles. Built into the human personality and character is the ability to withstand tragedy, and even, to a certain extent, overcome it.
Stress is Good For You!
Inclined to Recline- "And Yaakov dwelled…."
Researchers believe that some stress can help to fortify the immune system. For instance, stress can improve how your heart works and protect your body from infection. But on a deeper level, rising to challenges and overcoming them is the essence of life.
Sickness as a "Wake-Up Call"
Ein Aya Shabbat 2, 242
As a continuation of the class on "The Different Levels On Which G-d Runs the World", this class is on the different levels of sickness, whether ours or those around us. Just as fast-days are a self-induced weakness, which brings us to analyze our lives, priorities & actions, when God sends a sickness, it's not necessarily a punishment but rather a "wake-up call" to induce soul-searching. Life is comprised of such small incidents, some pleasant & others not, some direct & others less so, to keep us awake that we shouldn't live like robots, but rather utilize our Godly free-will to its utmost extent, keeping our lives meaningful & idealistic. Accordingly, even the "bad" messages are seen by Rav Kook as: The process of gradual good.
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
