On Thoughts That Frighten Us (and What to Do With Them)
We don’t choose which thought comes into our head, but we are responsible for what we do with it. A bad thought…
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When You Have Humiliated Someone: What to Do With Guilt
In Jewish tradition, public humiliation is almost a spiritual murder, yet guilt is not a sentence but the signal of a living…
How Not to Get Burned by Someone Else’s Fire
The sages noticed that the Torah places the stories of the unfaithful wife and the Nazirite side by side, and concluded that…
When a Person Strays from the Path…
“A person does not sin unless a spirit of folly enters him”: every sin is a loss of clarity, an exchange of…
Возраст ответственности в Библейской традиции
Учение о «первородном грехе», выдвинутое Августином Блаженным, всегда вызывало у меня недоумение. Его взгляды, особенно утверждение, что все младенцы, умершие в раннем…
