Tuesday, August 13, 2013

#BlogElul 7: Be

Be the change you want to see in the world.

To be or not to be, that is the question.

Be all that you can be!

Doing is not always being.  We all know people who do all the right things; follow all the tenants of their faith, are law abiding in civil society; and yet there is something that doesn't feel right.  It’s as if all that doing has not penetrated into their souls.


Yesterday’s word was DO, and I read several posts that referenced na’aseh v'nishmah, "We will do and we will obey." That doing the mitszot often comes first and then the understanding and being will follow.  But that doesn't always happen.  There are times when we do things, and either they have never spoken to our heart, or we do them by rote after all this time and the meaning behind them is lost.  Doing isn't enough.  There’s has to be a purpose, a being to our being.  

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