Learning and growing in Torat Eretz Yisrael

Nobody gets out of here alive and it doesn’t matter how you leave, it matters how you lived your life while you were here. We are all on the way, way to what? Will we ever get there? Can we? We were allowed to come here for a purpose; we have a mission, a tikkun, a repair for our souls and for others. We start out small, knowing nothing of this place and have to grow to become all we can become. And there are a myriad of directions that we can go to with the wondrous diamonds we were given just to us, in our way. Some call them talents, but they are only potentials. Most of us will never know we have so many. We may be too limited to find them or try them out. Life is too short, no two days are the same, and it is constantly new, everyday a new beginning, for the rest of our lives. What a treasure to be alive. What a gift. What a thrill.

Medicine is a tool many of us have to take, or think we have to take. Psychotherapy is also a tool, much like making scrambled eggs. Once you try making them you find out it is not so hard and the results are ok, the more you take risks and experiment. There are so many Jewish books on personal growth. Therapy can change the rest of your life for the better. It frees you from negative, limiting or self-defeating habits and ideas. Just let them go, its ok, You’ve held onto those for so long, you think that is you. Wrong. That was you, today you are a new you, a new opportunity to be. To really succeed, your mind and body must be subservient to your soul, for it is only then that you are truly free to fly and be you.

Reb Chaim Glancz of Our Place NY, where I volunteer, told me the truth is, I don’t have a purpose in life that I will discover someday. He said that every moment, I have a purpose in life and it is up to me to see it and seize the opportunity. And every time we reach a higher level we are offered an even higher level.