Four Stars Great

77% Weekly Newsletter

Four Stars Great

Hello.

I’m Rabbi Brian.

This is a new year, and this is the new, first 2025 issue of The 77% Weekly Newsletter.

History!!!
Where did the name come from? Well, every Monday, except the last Monday of the month, I send you a spiritualigious article. The ratio of messages I send per year (40) to the number of weeks in a year (52) is 0.77, or 77%.

Moral
And, therein is a lesson I’m trying to both learn and teach—aiming for 100% is a little more striving than necessary.

What would happen if we allowed ourselves and others the grace to be good enough with a 4-star review?

77% is good enough.

It’s OK to not be perfect.

Let’s find freedom and peace—77%—being good enough, imperfect, and human.

Is this article great? Nope. And, that’s ok.

Let’s shoot for 4 out of 5 stars
💙rB

“I love you” x 3

For reasons a team of psychoanalysts might have been able to crack, my dad couldn’t get the three-word phrase “I love you” to come out of his mouth. I knew he loved us. It’s just he couldn’t say it. I rationalized that I didn’t need to hear those three words, but it hurt anyway. This is the story about how

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Truth Matters

I am standing in Kenya, with my left foot in the Northern Hemisphere and my right foot in the Southern. A line on the ground indicates the equator. Young men—asking for nothing, but hoping for tips—entertain and educate tourists, like me, about the Coriolis effect. They pour water into bowls with small holes at the bottom and let the water

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Stuff Gets To Me

✧✧✧ As I pack up to leave after my workout, someone asks me, “Hey, Rabbi, how are things going?” I’m not one for small talk. Especially after being called by my title. “Well,” I reply. “I’m sad.” “Why?” “I’m thinking about the girls who went to school in the morning in Minab, Iran—over a hundred of them—killed by a bomb.”

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77% Weekly Newsletter
77% Weekly Newsletter