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    How Your Faith Can Survive a Crisis

    We hope that our beliefs will always survive life’s turbulence unscathed. But things often play out differently when crisis strikes.
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    After October 7, these three weeks might induct us into the grieving denied to us for the past many months.
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    “Sin” is the blockage, the obstructions, in life—how do we avoid it? The Talmud offers timeless wisdom for evading bad and living in flow.
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    Apologies should be easy—but they seem to be anything but. The Talmud shares timeless wisdom to help us say a better sorry.
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    Letting Go of the Scary God

    Changing how God appeared in my life began with changing how God appeared in my mind. I needed to let go of the scary God and choose a different one.
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