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Jan 17 2018

It’s That Time of the Year – Resolutions

Challenges, Change, Freedom, Lifestyle, New Year
by Chabad Intown

Have you paid attention to your inbox (digital and mail)? Are you getting those January solicitations to join the gym? Try out the newest diet? Join a new business coaching program?   January is a milestone in time; the end of one year, the start of a new one. People reflect on things they wished they had accomplished, feel guilty about the midline bulge and resolve that "this year" it's going to be different. Hence, the capitalization of your emotional roller coaster by the companies of the world.   So when is a resolution...

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Jan 10 2018

It’s time to warm up!

Challenges, Loving-Kindness, Rebuilding
by Chabad Intown

The weather across the country has been freezing! It's time for a thaw.   Maybe that's why in this week's Torah portion the Frogs jump into the ovens?! In plague #2 against Pharaoh and his People, Frogs, an amphibious creature, jumps into the Egyptian ovens as an act of sacrifice.   In the plague #1, the cold Egyptian water turns to blood.   We have the cold turning warm and the cold putting out the fires.   Sometimes in life when we are cold we ought to warm up. This is true when we are cold to things...

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Nov 08 2017

Servitude is the Greatest Liberation

Challenges, Lifestyle, Loving-Kindness, Prayer
by Chabad Intown

Do you ever want to take a break from yourself? A break from thinking? A break from feeling? The more sensitive and in touch you are, the smarter you are, the greater the desire to take a break, to greater the need to just still the mind.   Yoga, mindfulness meditation and regular meditation are all helpful to this end. But imagine living the paradox, where you feel and think and still experience peace of mind and heart?!   Meditate on that for a bit :-)!   There is help and it comes from an unlikely Biblical figure...

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Nov 01 2017

The Isaac Well Factor

Challenges, Lifestyle, Loving-Kindness
by Chabad Intown

Discipline, being calculated, stringency are all qualities that we employ in our lives for our personal well-being, as well as those under our purview. Imagine a world where that wasn't the case. We'd eat whatever we want, we'd say whatever is on our mind, we'd all be nomads living unproductive lives.   Conversely, if discipline and calculation rules the day, where is the joy, where is joie de vivre? Is that gloomy world the one that G-d wants?   In fact we need a balance between the two. But which one ought to dominate?   These...

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Oct 24 2017

All Alone?!

Challenges, Inspiration, leader
by Chabad Intown

Do you ever feel all alone? Like no one gets you and your trying to move something along that is meeting human obstacle after obstacle. Or like the entire world has gone mad and you're the only sane one? (If you answered yes to the last question, I know a good therapist.)   Last week I attended a session at the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta called a Fishbowl. Inside the Fishbowl were three entrepreneurs. And we were watching the conversation taking place between these entrepreneurs and the interviewee. One of...

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Oct 04 2017

Time to Hug!

Challenges, Holidays, Lifestyle, New Year, Relationships
by Chabad Intown

It's been a rough week for all of us, it's time for a hug!   The Sukkah walls will hug us beginning this evening and for the next 8 days. It's the Divine embrace that each of us will draw from for the rest of the year. An embrace that provides each of us with the resources we need to live a more G-dly and goodly life this year!   The joy of Sukkos is fully realized on account of the 4 Kinds (Lulav, Ethrog, Hadasim and Aravos). The analogy of each of the...

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Sep 06 2017

It’s All In The Smile

Challenges, Lifestyle, Loving-Kindness, New Year, Rebbe, Rebuilding
by Chabad Intown

The Mishna states "receive everyone with a pleasant face". We are being taught in this Mishna the importance of having proper social interactions. You may be in a bad mood but you can always smile to another. Your bad mood is not their problem!   Why is the smile so important? I recently read an essay from the Rebbe with a nuanced comment that addresses this question - perhaps.   There is a parable given by the Alter Rebbe regarding the month of Elul. In the parable the Rebbe says that throughout the year...

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Aug 30 2017

Shiny Penny Syndrome

Challenges, Holidays, Lifestyle, New Year
by Chabad Intown

The nature of the human is that the things we can't have, things that are inaccessible, difficult to achieve or expensive are the those we want most.   When things are easily accessible or common we often times disregard their value.   ***   During the month leading up to Rosh Hashanah, the Holy Baal Shem Tov says that G-d is accessible to each and every one. He uses an analogy of a king who comes out of the palace and goes out to the field where the common man is and he smiles to them...

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Aug 25 2017

A Dream Come True

Challenges, Elul, Lifestyle, New Year
by Chabad Intown

After many years of dreaming of taking my family to the beautiful natural sites of the west, the dream came true!   Dena and I just got back from a 15 day road trip with all of the kids. The magnificence, beauty and wondrousness of each of the stops would have justified the trip unto itself. Combined together it becomes a thing that fantasy and fairy tales are made of.   Among the many fascinating sites (Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands, The Grand Canyon to name a few) we also had wonderful experiences in the...

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