tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post116648661287574958..comments2024-03-18T03:40:39.185-04:00Comments on The Curious Jew: Recreating Oneself: Born to be GoodChanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655144434904957767noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-81572976195811445782008-10-01T10:32:00.000-04:002008-10-01T10:32:00.000-04:00It's helps me, making up myself.It's helps me, making up myself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-1167258851633473182006-12-27T17:34:00.000-05:002006-12-27T17:34:00.000-05:00Well put.To echo Scraps, acknowledging your flaws,...Well put.<BR/><BR/>To echo Scraps, acknowledging your flaws, entirely and unflinchingly, is the first *huge* step towards fixing them. Sometimes, even, just thinking about them often, and keeping them in the back of your mind can cause you to change in tiny ways, almost imperceptibly, until you become the person you want to be.<BR/><BR/>I know this is how I work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-1166641784770852322006-12-20T14:09:00.000-05:002006-12-20T14:09:00.000-05:00Ok, now I did read the whole post.I think it's gre...Ok, now I did read the whole post.<BR/><BR/>I think it's great that you can look into yourself and see flaws. But still, I don't see all the flaws you claim you have. Arrogance? Little care for others? That does NOT sound like you at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-1166628988886188642006-12-20T10:36:00.000-05:002006-12-20T10:36:00.000-05:00i once read that the rav's younger brother 'shmuel...i once read that the rav's younger brother 'shmuel'(?) said that he was not as accomplished as RJBS because when rav mosha solovietchick asked a young RJBS if he understood RJBS would say "no" get a smack and relearn the topic with Rav Mosha.And so when Rav Mosha asked shmuel if he understood he always said "yes" to avoid the corporal punishment, and the chazara with RMS would be lost to him as well.AMSHINOVERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07680072149053035110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-1166586820575663162006-12-19T22:53:00.000-05:002006-12-19T22:53:00.000-05:00Beautiful post.I went to college with three people...Beautiful post.<BR/><BR/>I went to college with three people who are now billionaires. I envy them not at all. They earned their money honestly.<BR/><BR/>A non-Jew who co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous wrote about the danger that resentments bring, and how important it is to look at them honestly and deal with them effectively:<BR/><BR/>'It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick. When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically. In dealing with resentments, we set them on paper. We listed people, institutions or principle with who we were angry. We asked ourselves why we were angry. In most cases it was found that our self-esteem, our pocketbooks, our ambitions, our personal relationships, (including sex) were hurt or threatened. So we were sore. We were "burned up." On our grudge list we set opposite each name our injuries. Was it our self-esteem, our security, our ambitions, our personal, or sex relations, which had been interfered with?'<BR/><BR/>The entire section is at<BR/><BR/>http://www.recovery.org/aa/bigbook/ww/chapter_5.html<BR/><BR/>scroll halfway down the page for the quoted paragraph. It is in the public domain in the United States. Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski has written extensively about these principles from a Jewish perspective.Charlie Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17667135360784254574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-1166550486102615602006-12-19T12:48:00.000-05:002006-12-19T12:48:00.000-05:00Quote on envy: "Kinas sofrim tarbeh chachma." If ...Quote on envy: "Kinas sofrim tarbeh chachma." If utilized competitively toward a constructive goal, it can be positive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-1166547643065708732006-12-19T12:00:00.000-05:002006-12-19T12:00:00.000-05:00Wow. Not everyone can look at themselves so hones...Wow. Not everyone can look at themselves so honestly and see what they have to work on. It is also in human nature to deny one's bad traits, to ignore them, to self-promote. I'd say that, just by being aware of your own inner nature, you're ahead of the game already. Yehi ratzon she-telchi me-chayil el chayil. :)Scrapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15911315552965685448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-1166545301593391042006-12-19T11:21:00.000-05:002006-12-19T11:21:00.000-05:00i'd make a derisive comment about brainwashing at ...i'd make a derisive comment about brainwashing at this point but i'm too impressedLela Harbingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16252413323199579989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-1166512281315896582006-12-19T02:11:00.000-05:002006-12-19T02:11:00.000-05:00I confess. I saw what you wrote on Ezzie's wall. H...I confess. I saw what you wrote on Ezzie's wall. Here's a comment. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com