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Compass-u-ionate

For the sake of learning, I’d like to ask you to consider the circumstances since the start of 2020 as a grand psychological experiment. Of

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Suffering Burns

  A sunburn and some thoughts about suffering I’m standing in the bedroom slathering a clear gel, from a white and green tube, on my

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The Jam of Thinking

Think about strawberry jam—the sweet, gooey, red stuff that gets slathered on toast. Or maybe a bagel. Strawberry jam. Yum. (Simple so far, no?)  

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Kindness

Be kind. It’s more important than being right.  “You can’t win an argument. You can’t because if you lose it, you lose it; and if

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Chats with Larry Episode 9

On today’s RABBI BRIAN’S CHATS WITH LARRY While Today’s Rabbi Brian Chats With Larry has great audio quality (an improvement over last time), but that’s

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Original Sin

WITHOUT SIN MY PEOPLE My people don’t do the original sin thing. We don’t grow up with this doctrine. We know about guilt; we’re Jews.

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Emotions

Emotions 101   Emotions are feelings. They happen naturally. Emotions are our response to being alive. As we are human–alive and awake–we have interactions with

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