tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post6178762155646117662..comments2024-03-18T03:40:39.185-04:00Comments on The Curious Jew: You Want Perfect? Go Buy Yourself A Barbie DollChanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655144434904957767noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-15378652868656185762009-06-05T16:25:05.452-04:002009-06-05T16:25:05.452-04:00I'll just re-post my quote from a previous com...I'll just re-post my quote from a previous comment...<br /><br />"Because…when we think about ourselves, when we try to know ourselves, … we use the knowledge of us which other people already have. We judge ourselves with the means other people have and have given us for judging ourselves. Into whatever I say about myself someone else’s judgment always enters. Into whatever I feel within myself someone else’s judgment enters. -- JP Sartre"<br /><br />Hell IS other people...Walter Sobchaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-46598880093426243332009-06-05T00:32:55.525-04:002009-06-05T00:32:55.525-04:00I think the issue is not that you shouldn't ri...I think the issue is not that you shouldn't rise to your potential but rather that other people should not constantly tell you you're not rising to your potential enough to their liking.Erachethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00660802321998349072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-68057186974481941252009-06-04T22:45:23.749-04:002009-06-04T22:45:23.749-04:00Party in hell?!?
Oh Chana, I pray not. Surely the...Party in hell?!?<br /><br />Oh Chana, I pray not. Surely there must be a better place!<br /><br />...with the God we seek, perhaps?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-42081595043314349042009-06-04T22:23:33.329-04:002009-06-04T22:23:33.329-04:00One's self worth only depends on one's sel...One's self worth only depends on one's self-perception.<br /><br />Potential is something that can't adequately be gauged by outsiders. It is an internal measurement, which one must acknowledge and face. <br /><br />I personally do not really know what my full potential is, despite what others may say. To me it's a constant drive to do better--to improve on something that I've done before. That's my mentality--to always aim higher--and then maybe I'll start to realize my so called "potential"The Cousinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-61494130189551813302009-06-04T16:11:58.473-04:002009-06-04T16:11:58.473-04:00Iagree with Joel Rich.
The Maharal M’Prague taugh...Iagree with Joel Rich.<br /><br />The Maharal M’Prague taught: <br />“Man is not created in his final wholeness. Man was created to actualize his wholeness. That is the meaning of the verse ‘Man was born to toil.’ Man is born and exists for the aim of this toil, which is the actualization of his potential. He can, however, never attain the state of actualized being. He must toil forever, to actualize his wholeness. That is the essence of his final wholeness. Even when he attains a certain level of actualization, he still remains potential, and will forever have to go on actualizing himself,” (Tiferet Yisrael).Arinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-8151153470695286942009-06-04T15:42:33.850-04:002009-06-04T15:42:33.850-04:00WADR I don't see how the reisha and seifa rela...WADR I don't see how the reisha and seifa relate.<br /><br />Of course your self worth shouldn't be a function of the items listed but that doesn't mean that one shouldn't strive to meet one's potential, whatever that might be.<br /><br />Yilamdeinu morateinu<br /><br />KT<br />Joel RichAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-70557689084058297632009-06-04T14:08:16.736-04:002009-06-04T14:08:16.736-04:00Hear hear!Hear hear!Erachethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00660802321998349072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-68390575608956750852009-06-04T13:32:33.780-04:002009-06-04T13:32:33.780-04:00Great post.Great post.Ezziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494592434522239195noreply@blogger.com