Spiritual Stubbornness. "To be spiritual means to rise above the pull of one's physical side and the autopilot of one's natural inclinations and actively make an independent choice." And What A Battle it is. No matter what religion you choose, the choice between guiding your life with Light instead of Darkness is always a challenge.
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"The Sages are trying to convey to us how to get a handle on life. They are telling us to set aside a specific time in our day for what life is really all about. Even if most of my day is occupied with the means to get to my end goal, I am not to lose sight of the ends while dealing with the means. Rather, I am to make sure to designate an untouchable time in each day to be directly involved with what really counts—a meaningful conversation with my spouse, quality time with each child, and, most of all, time for introspection, Torah, and God. That is, there is a certain value to such disciplined consistency in all of life's domain in which we invest time and effort, but this is a mere reflection of the domain in which our time and effort is most deserving of being placed due to its overriding meaningfulness and importance—Torah and the spiritual realm.
One approach to this is that it seems Moshe is saying that although the Jews messed up, the mess-up came from a good spiritual source—stubbornness.
Of course, when a person is wrong he must acknowledge it and change his ways. Nevertheless, the capacity to stick to one's guns in the face of adversity and to have a clear path that you follow no matter what gets in the way is a spiritual trait. Living a life in which the physical obstacles do not affect your reaching the place truth leads you is to live above the physical, to live beyond its grasp.
No Exceptions
It is important to note that the principle of designating time for Torah and prioritizing spirituality and personal growth means No Exceptions. Sometimes a person will "decide" to dedicate a particular time to do something positive, yet somehow manage to explain away every night's failure to buckle down and get-r-done as being an exception to the rule. However, even in the event that a person misses or forgoes his designated commitment to learning or spirituality, Jewish law lays out the backup plan: make sure not to go to sleep without making up what it was that you had designated to accomplish. Thus, such an individual at least holds on to some level of the designated Torah study."
Spiritual Stubbornness. An interesting study on attitude and spiritual behavior from a well known lecturer in Jewish Philosophy and the Kabbalah.
http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/Spiritual-Stubbornness-Eliyahu-Yaakov-11-10-2011.html
http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/Spiritual-Stubbornness-Eliyahu-Yaakov-11-10-2011.html
"The Sages are trying to convey to us how to get a handle on life. They are telling us to set aside a specific time in our day for what life is really all about. Even if most of my day is occupied with the means to get to my end goal, I am not to lose sight of the ends while dealing with the means. Rather, I am to make sure to designate an untouchable time in each day to be directly involved with what really counts—a meaningful conversation with my spouse, quality time with each child, and, most of all, time for introspection, Torah, and God. That is, there is a certain value to such disciplined consistency in all of life's domain in which we invest time and effort, but this is a mere reflection of the domain in which our time and effort is most deserving of being placed due to its overriding meaningfulness and importance—Torah and the spiritual realm.
One approach to this is that it seems Moshe is saying that although the Jews messed up, the mess-up came from a good spiritual source—stubbornness.
Of course, when a person is wrong he must acknowledge it and change his ways. Nevertheless, the capacity to stick to one's guns in the face of adversity and to have a clear path that you follow no matter what gets in the way is a spiritual trait. Living a life in which the physical obstacles do not affect your reaching the place truth leads you is to live above the physical, to live beyond its grasp.
No Exceptions
It is important to note that the principle of designating time for Torah and prioritizing spirituality and personal growth means No Exceptions. Sometimes a person will "decide" to dedicate a particular time to do something positive, yet somehow manage to explain away every night's failure to buckle down and get-r-done as being an exception to the rule. However, even in the event that a person misses or forgoes his designated commitment to learning or spirituality, Jewish law lays out the backup plan: make sure not to go to sleep without making up what it was that you had designated to accomplish. Thus, such an individual at least holds on to some level of the designated Torah study."
Spiritual Stubbornness. An interesting study on attitude and spiritual behavior from a well known lecturer in Jewish Philosophy and the Kabbalah.
http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/Spiritual-Stubbornness-Eliyahu-Yaakov-11-10-2011.html
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