It’s Elul, the time to prepare for Rosh HaShana, the Jewish new year. Women are learning May You Have a Day on their own and together with friends and family. They tell me a chapter or two a day is making a real difference in their life. (There are 120 chapters!) Read a chapter such as the one below. Share your thoughts with a friend, relative or a child. Talk it over with Hashem. Get started. You never know how far you can go unless you begin.
From Chapter 21: Your New Self
Rebbe Nachman tells us that our service of God, our mitzvot, and the good deeds we do are like our children. Before a woman gives birth, she has to undergo contractions and birth pangs, she cries and screams. Before we can truly connect to God, before we can rise to a new spiritual level, we have to undergo spiritual contractions and birth pangs …
It’s so difficult to take ourselves to that next level … not only are we giving birth to a new version of ourselves, but we are giving birth to positive new energies in this world. Don’t be discouraged if things are difficult when you want to grow. Challenge yourself and believe you can do it. Don’t let the difficulties discourage you – hang in there. Endure it. Take some deep breaths. Ignore the suffering and focus on the outcome. The outcomes will be a new you and a better world.
May you have a day in which you believe in your innate ability to go higher no matter what you’re facing.
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