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RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:Jewish Spiritual Renewal: A Student's Comment of Her Progress, Hebrew College, MA, USA
Shalom:
The below is an email received today from one of your fellow classmates on how she has put the lessons learned in Jewish Spiritual Renewal into action and her results. (Her name and email have been redacted.)
As we've discussed the technique is not new, it pre dates the Talmud. We are just able now to distill it into modern simpler terms, without archaic ritual. It will hopefully help you, and those congregants of yours, wishing for a closer relationship to God and a life filled with spirituality.
I was happy to read this.
Many blessings to you all.
Rabbi Arthur Segal
Hebrew College
Newton Centre, MA, USA
via Shamash Org on-line class
Dear Rabbi Arthur,
Thanks for your classes. You are affecting a
lot of people, and God is working through you in so many ways. Bless you.
These days have been growing for me in trust in God, faith, and peace inside.
I pray every day, in many ways, at many times. I have followed your advice
to offer it all to God and ask to walk in his way and do his will. This is a
deep commitment, and I ask always for help in renewing and understanding it
more. I continued reading in psalms, and keep the Torah close to me. I've
been attending services and listening to a variety of voices sharing the word
of God. I'm attending a special study for women on Wednesday nights
Thanks for your classes. You are affecting a
lot of people, and God is working through you in so many ways. Bless you.
These days have been growing for me in trust in God, faith, and peace inside.
I pray every day, in many ways, at many times. I have followed your advice
to offer it all to God and ask to walk in his way and do his will. This is a
deep commitment, and I ask always for help in renewing and understanding it
more. I continued reading in psalms, and keep the Torah close to me. I've
been attending services and listening to a variety of voices sharing the word
of God. I'm attending a special study for women on Wednesday nights
and am working hard on my own way of being in
my marriage. I will let understanding of what is best grow out of a better
understanding of God, and my choices will be better.
The past weeks have been another heavy stretch at work, and I can tell you
that there are 80, 90, 100 things that had to happen in a certain order at a
certain time to make internships, contracts, orientation, registration and
more happen, and they all stepped in line, one after the other. God made it
work, and is trying to help me see that I can trust him for all of it. I'm
not there yet, because I have a long history of fear, particularly fear of
loss, and I am praying to let go of it with God's help. Since I can't do it
all myself, why should I be foolish and pretend I can? I am also following
your advice to pray for right direction in all choices -- food, sleep, taking
care of myself, and that is getting better slowly too. I want to grow into a
better variation of this person, with God's help.
Even when I have not sent any shares before to class, your words, advice and caring are
helping me, and I will try to communicate more. We are all in this together.
Much shalom for you.
D__________
my marriage. I will let understanding of what is best grow out of a better
understanding of God, and my choices will be better.
The past weeks have been another heavy stretch at work, and I can tell you
that there are 80, 90, 100 things that had to happen in a certain order at a
certain time to make internships, contracts, orientation, registration and
more happen, and they all stepped in line, one after the other. God made it
work, and is trying to help me see that I can trust him for all of it. I'm
not there yet, because I have a long history of fear, particularly fear of
loss, and I am praying to let go of it with God's help. Since I can't do it
all myself, why should I be foolish and pretend I can? I am also following
your advice to pray for right direction in all choices -- food, sleep, taking
care of myself, and that is getting better slowly too. I want to grow into a
better variation of this person, with God's help.
Even when I have not sent any shares before to class, your words, advice and caring are
helping me, and I will try to communicate more. We are all in this together.
Much shalom for you.
D__________
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