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

My Letter to Habakkuk

February 26, 2026

✧✧✧ To my dearest pen pal, Habbakuk: First, let me say, no one remembers the prophets who did not deliver on the goods. Your predictions came true. And, 2500+ years later, you are still remembered. Do you remember Lenny, that guy? Kept going around Judea telling people “the goats will lay down in green pastures,” and, then, remember? It started

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Me, Rabbi.

February 25, 2026

✧✧✧   I am a rabbi.   I have a Masters Degree in Hebrew letters and a Doctorate of Divinity, and I am ordained as a rabbi.   I have each credential framed, in my office, just behind where I sit.   They’re not individually affixed to the wall—they lean against one another in a stack.   I like the

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Way Through

February 14, 2026

✧✧✧ Hugh’s dad died a few weeks ago. Hugh is a dear friend and Presbyterian minister in Waterloo (just west of Toronto), Ontario, Canada. I call, we small-talk for a while, and then I ask, “How is your heart?” “I appreciate you asking. My heart is heavy and sad.” ✧✧✧ I love Hugh.I mean, how many people do you know

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77% Weekly Newsletter
77% Weekly Newsletter