[Avodah] self-improvement

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 07:47:23AM -0700, Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org wrote to
Areivim:
: http://www.hakhel.info/archivesPublicService/YomKippur5766DoingTeshuvah.pdf 
: one from column A, one from column B....

I suggested that to a group, but using Teshuvah, Tefillah, uTzedaqah.
I proposed three columns:
Teshuvah - accepting to do an incremental change in self (Torah, middos),
Tefillah - in how I relate to HQBH, and
Tzedaqah - how I relate to others.

But then, the motto of the organization that hosts this list is "Da'as,
Rachamim, Tif'eres." Quoting <http://www.aishdas.org/TADS_MissionStatement.pdf>:
    In Dr. Nathan Birnbaum's words, one must work toward da'as --
    an intimate knowledge of the Almighty; rachamim -- an empathetic
    relationship toward others; and tif'eres -- a mind totally shaped
    by and at harmony with the Torah's way of thought and values.

In the ideal, people would find their own incremental changes. But we
are called upon to think in these directions so rarely, I think the
lists of suggestions is very appropriate and useful.

GCT!
-Micha

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