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Short Story: A Rabbi, and a Pastor, discuss God's wants

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 5 Jan

A Jewish Rabbi was debating with a Christian Reverend about God's place in our lives. The Rabbi said: [i]"When something bad happens to you, it had to happen to you, as otherwise God would have stopped it from happening...

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Short story: A Rabbi talks about life purpose

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 17 Nov

Rabbi Sostha Reshevski had just said this, seemingly exaggerated claim, to one of his students: "If something had no place in your purpose of being of your living, it would not exist in your world." The student...

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Short story: A Priest, and a Rabbi, argue about the value of repentance

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 29 Sep

An old Priest came up to a Rabbi, when he saw him walking in the street, and he said to him: "Repent, and your sins will be forgiven." The Rabbi smiled widely, as he replied: "We, Jews, do not repent." "To repent...

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Short story: A Rabbi talks about life balance

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 20 Sep

Rabbi Budlev Ruskevski was talking to his students about numbers, and their significance in one's life. He claimed that our very name was linked to a number too, and this number connects us to our birthdate in a unique way...

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Short story: A Rabbi lectures on karma

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 15 Sep

Rabbi Freeman Roskevski was giving a lecture on karma, the law of cause and effect. Here is what he said: [b]"Every action, creates another connected action, such as when a rock is thrown, it might smash a window, hit...

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Short story: Truth lives in us when we live within it. Do not live a lie.

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 19 May 25

Rabbi Anton Breshnev was asked by one of his students about truth. He told him, that when we come across truth, we are meant to come across it, and it is meant for us to receive it right here, and now. [b]If we come...

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Short story: Being who you are, is being not who you are not

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 21 Apr 25

"Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not." This quote is from the author, Deepak Chopra. John was at a question, and answer, session with his local Rabbi, Rabbi Chekov Rustevvly, and he asked...

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Short story: Character, and personality

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 2 Mar 25

Rabbi Resky Ashpodi, was chatting to his students about character, and about how one could assess the character of somebody else. He said to them that there are 3 main ways to assess somebody’s character. [b]One way is to...

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Short story: The energy to do evil never comes to us from love

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 25 Jan 25

Rabbi Reskil Resposke, had been asked about the human inclination to commit bad acts, and not to always be willed by our higher self to live rightly, correctly, God aligned, lives. [b]This inbuilt inclination moves us away...

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Short story: Know yourself, and so know God too

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 13 Nov 24

Rabbi Abram Abrahams, was discussing, with his students, the best ways to understand God, through first understanding ourselves. Here was his take on this subject on that day. "We can never know all about another soul,...

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Short story: When is your personality your real personality?

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 29 Oct 24

The great Rabbi, Arvin Perskosko, was giving a lecture to his students on the personality. He told them that they have two personalities, one is attached to their mind, and another, to their soul. Here is some more...

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Short story: Creating love

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 30 May 24

Rabbi Anton Breshnex used to tell his people that, "Anyone can fall in, and out, of love, but if you create love, it lasts forever." Then, he would add with a twinkle in his eye, but [b]only God can create...

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Short story: A Rabbi talks about God, anger, and love

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 29 Oct 23

Rabbi Anton Ionislev, had been asked a question about God, by a student, who was in one of the religious classes, that he was holding every Friday night, in the community hall. The student asked the Rabbi to explain to him...

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Short Story: The parts of a man

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 2 Oct 23

Rabbi, Gustev Rimonski, was discussing the various parts of a man, with his students. Here is what he said: "Man is a multifaceted creation of God." "Man has a body, which includes, a physical body, an emotional...

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Short Story: Ask the Rabbi

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 20 Sep 23

Rabbi Gustov Rachmann, had a question and answer session every Friday night with his students, where they could put questions to him, and he would answer them. One student asked him this question: [i]“Should we strive for...

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Short Story: The pipe-smoking Rabbi

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 15 Sep 23

Rabbi Anton Bresneth, loved to smoke a pipe. He had indulged in this habit for many years, when it finally caught up with him, this unhealthy habit. He got a mouth cancer, and he died. On his deathbed, he said....

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Short story: Wisdom is often pushed aside and buried, without accepting its truths

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 4 Sep 23

Rabbi Artev Treminski had just died. He was buried in a pauper's grave, at the very back of the local cemetery, without even a headstone. This master, and Rabbi, was little known, in his life, as he preferred to keep a low...

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Short story: The value of repetition, and its role in our life

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 10 Aug 23

Rabbi Astek Ludovich, was talking to his students about repetition. He said that repetition plays a big part in every life. Here is how he put it: "We eat, we sleep, we breathe, we commute, we work, we cut the...

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Short story: Life is full of good experiences. Everything works towards the good

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 2 Aug 23

Rabbi Shemlick Tomlinson, had just made this bold statement to his students: "All experiences, even the seemingly negative ones, are really for the best.” Then, he backed up his remark, with the following...

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Short Story: A Rabbi changes his outlook from one of lawful rightness, to one of open lovingness

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 22 Jul 23

Rabbi Ernest Shimroz, was a bit of a stickler for following the laws, of his people. He said that at no time should these laws not be followed. And in the Jewish religion, there was a lot of these laws to follow. Then...

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