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We feel both the trust and the pain simultaneously, and that’s what Hallel is all about

“Beware the snobbery that makes a person believe they have the only knowledgeable eye in the room”

“Maybe it’s time to rethink how we do this whole mechilah thing — no pain, no gain!”

I feel it’s time we graduated from bochurim trips to their grown-up version: shul expeditions

Succos is the zeman simchaseinu, the Days of Joy. The contrast seems abrupt and jarring — why the sudden shift in mood?

Put differently, true mesirus nefesh is not self-reduction; it is self-expansion, an opportunity to push oneself beyond the limits one assumes for oneself.