Rabbi Mark’s Blog: Toward A Better You (In One Night)

What are you doing this Saturday night from 10 pm ‘til Midnight?

Why not join your friends and neighbors for a late night gathering guaranteed to lift your spirits.

Tell me if this sounds familiar: Every year you tell yourself you’re going to change some old pattern of behavior that has been making you (and the people around you) unhappy, and yet nothing seems to fundamentally change. (I know what it has been for me. What has it been for you?)

This Saturday night - through a combination of teaching, meditation, and music - we’ll be opening up new ways of thinking about that “thing” that keeps tripping us up, and learning specific ways we can make life better for ourselves, and for those around us.

You don’t have to be a member of our synagogue, you don’t even have to be Jewish, to join us for this uplifting, late night get together. We’ll be looking at a teaching attributed to the 19th century Chassidic Master Rabbi Mordechai Leiner (all in English). He taught that everyone has their own cosmic “deficiency” but that learning what to do with it can turn that “deficiency” into a gift.

On Saturday night we’ll be looking at seven specific, positive choices we have to work with our “deficiency” and we’ll learn how the thing that keeps tripping us up can actually be the key to a happier life (and a better world).

(PS: The name for the traditional gathering held on the Saturday night before Rosh Hashanna is “Selichot.” If you’d like information on our Rosh Hashanna and Yom Kippur services please click the link below.)  

Location:

Saturday night: Pleasantville Community Synagogue, 219 Bedford Road, Pleasantville. Open to everyone!

A good a sweet New Year to all!

Rabbi Mark

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