#blogelul 2013

#BlogElul 2013 Day 28, Give

Better to give than to receive? Apparently we’re wired to feel that way. Darwin, John Stuart Mill, and Adam Smith all described the power of self-interest in moving the world along. Yet recent brain-based research indicates that our biology also disposes us to be generous. 

#BlogElul 2013 Day 23, Love

Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments.

#BlogElul 2013 Day 18, Pray

Lately I've been wondering what the praying brain looks like. At Stanford, they've studied monks in meditation.

#BlogElul 2013 Day 16, Change

Deborah Grayson Riegel of the Jewish Coaching Academy (and author of Oy Vey Isn't a Strategy) has counter intuitive wisdom. If I focus on what is going perfectly for me, I will be better equipped to make changes I want (or NEED) to make . . . . Here's a CHANGE of pace--read her rather than me!

#BlogElul 2013 Day 11, Count

So I was actually involved recently in an online discussion of when to say ‘fewer’ and when to say ‘less’ (and yes, former high school pals—I am still that geeky). Frankly, after all the flak I’ve gotten over the years from correcting my children on this point it was rather refreshing to stumble upon some like-minded souls who also care about such linguistic difference—even if several of them seem to be Brits with a compulsive need to pun. (The internet is an intriguing place).

#BlogElul 2013 Day 10, See

"Therefore you are my witnesses, says Adonai, and I am God." (Isaiah 43.12) "When you are My witnesses, I am God, but when you are not My witnesses, I am not God, if one may say such a thing." (Sifre to Deuteronomy Piska 346)

#BlogElul 2013 Day 9, Hear

"Am I just background noise?"

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