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Day 95: Feed your animals before yourself

“As Rabbi David Woznica puts it, “ It’s very beautiful for a child to see his parents feeding the helpless before themselves.” And for a child to learn to delay his or her own eating defeat an animal helps that child become accustomed to doing the right thing even when it might cost him or her a slightly uncomfortable delay.”

Lying in Judaism. I appreciated this week because it just makes sense. You can lie to protect life, which is something annoyingly forbidden in other practices.

“One who learns from his companion a single chapter, a single law, a single verse, a single expression, or even a single letter, should accord him respect.” -Ethics of the Fathers (6:3)

Well, I guess I owe Dan an apology 🤔

Many people who have a few minutes of spare time look for ways to kill it; they will turn on the television, or sit and do nothing. But we don’t have to kill time, it kills us. And five minutes is sufficient time to pick up a book and read a few pages, or mentally review concept and start to grapple with its implications.”