RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:JEWISH RENEWAL:JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL:BAR RAFAELI:ELIEZAR

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:JEWISH RENEWAL:JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL:BAR RAFAELI:ELIEZAR

 

A Short Snap Shot of Rabbi Arthur Segal

Rabbi Arthur Segal

United States

I am available for Shabbatons, and can speak on various aspects of Jewish history,(from the ancient past to modern day, and can be area specific, if a group wishes), Spirituality, developing a Personal Relationship with God, on the Jews of India and other 'exotic' communities, and on Talmud, Torah and other great texts. We have visited these exotic Jewish communities first hand. I adhere to the Mishna's edict of not using the Torah as a ''spade'', so while I do ask for expenses to be paid if I am asked to travel, I do not have exorbitant honorariums for my services. I am post-denominational and renewal and spiritually centered.   I am available to perform Jewish weddings, and Jewish inter-marriages (Jewish intermarriage, Jewish inter-marriage, Jewish interfaith weddings) My post-doc in Psych from Penn helps tremendously when I do Rabbinic counseling. My phone number and address will be made available once I am sure of one's sincerity in working with me.

Rabbi Segal is the author of three books and many articles on Torah, Talmud and TaNaK and Jewish history. His books are : The Handbook to Jewish Spiritual Renewal: A Path of Transformation for the Modern Jew, A Spiritual and Ethical Compendium to the Torah and Talmud, and  Spiritual Wisdom of our Talmudic Sages. The first two are published by Amazon through their publishing house, BookSurge. For information on how to purchase these, please contact RabbiSegal@JewishSpiritualRenewal.net and visit WWW.JewishSpiritualRenewal.Net.   Todah Rabah and Shalom v' Beracoth. Rabbi Arthur Segal ,( Dr. Arthur Segal )RabbiASegal@aol.com . 

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Shalom:

 

One of our Talmidim emailed that she was taught as a little girl the Gemorah of Rabbis Shimon bar Kahana and Eliezar, with the splinter and toothpick, but as a story, of two rabbis walking and one about to pick a flower, and the other stopping him, with the same admonition. {If everyone picked a flower there would be no more flowers left in the world}.RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL:JEWISH RENEWAL:SHIMON BAR KAHANA

 

She thought that maybe she remembered incorrectly  but when she read another Talmid's wonderful post about wildflowers she was certain, and we thought we'ld  ask the group if anyone was taught this in Hebrew school, with flowers and not toothpicks or wood chips? 

Now another of our Talmidim,  who is searching the Gemora for Bar Rafaeli, ;-) , writes that in being rigorously honest he does not buy second hand books as this of stealing from an author as the author gets no fee for this sale. Many people
buy one book and copy it many times for classes.  He also mentioned how folks steal WiFi from their neighbors, and other things that folks don't think  of as  stealing, but really is. He wrote: "Many of us steal toothpicks every day of one type or another and do not realize it. Sins repeated eventually seem permitted.''

Another wrote in and said she saw an   illustration of the Yetzer Ha Ra battling the Yetzer Tov . This is true and is  found many times in our Talmud. I site this example in my "The Handbook to Jewish Spiritual Renewal : A Path of Transformation for the Modern Jew:" A rabbi said his Yetzer Ha Ra and his Yetzer Tov battle each other in  his head every day like two dogs. His student asked: ''Who wins? ''  And the rabbi said:  "Whomever I feed the most.''

 

Shalom,

 

Rabbi Arthur Segal

Jewish Spiritual Renewal

Jewish Renewal

Hilton Head Island, SC

Bluffton, SC

Savannah, GA

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