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Wednesday September 5, 2007

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Here is the clip of the great cantor Yossele Rosenblatt I played at the opening of this week's show.

Roughly translated:
The Lord, Who remembered us, will bless; He will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron. He will bless those who fear the Lord, the small together with the great. May the Lord add upon you, upon you and upon your children. Blessed are you to the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. The heavens are heavens of the Lord, but the earth He gave to the children of men. Neither will the dead praise God, nor all those who descend to the grave. But we shall bless God from now and forever, Hallelukah.

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Wednesday August 22, 2007

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~Doctors Dan Beilin and Carola Cuenca~

As promised last week we discussed guilt:

In general there are three kinds of shame:
1. Humiliation
2. Violation
3. Guilt

Humiliation is when I do something that humiliates me. For example, I’m walking in a crowd and I slip on a banana peal and land flat on my back. I didn’t do anything wrong, I wasn’t being bad. It’s just embarrassing. I'm humbled.

Violation is when for example, I’m at a dinner party and I’m looking for kitchen or the restroom and I accidentally walk into the host’s bedroom. The feeling of embarrassment there is from the knowledge that I’ve overstepped my boundaries. I'm ashamed of my violation.

Then there is the feeling of guilt. Guilt is not just shame of having violated.

The Torah and Chasidism use the term “guilt” specifically where there is a damaged relationship. Guilt is the feeling that the relationship I had with you is damaged. I am no longer as desirable to you as I once was.

Good Guilt vs. Bad Guilt

This helps us differentiate between healthy guilt and unhealthy guilt.

Healthy guilt, guilt that will heal, is when I feel that I’ve damaged a relationship, that I’ve hurt another, that I’m no longer as lovable as I was before.

Unhealthy guilt is where I don’t which relationship I’ve hurt or I don’t feel that I’ve hurt any relationships, I’m just feeling guilty. That’s unhealthy, pointless guilt.

In fact, if the person I hurt, in their great kindness can find it in their heart to forgive me and to love me as before but I still feel guilty that’s also unhealthy guilt, in that case I’m just being glutton for guilt. The feelings of healthy guilt should be put to rest by forgiveness.

(Herein lays the answer to people who are feeling (unhealthy) guilt in cases where there was no violation or transgression on their part, for example in the case of abuse victims. These people don’t need to hear, “It’s not your fault.” That’s not going to cure the guilt.

What they need to hear is, “It doesn’t change how I feel about you.” Or better yet, “I can love you just as much!” This is more believable than “it doesn’t matter”. It does matter but my love for you is bigger than being damaged by what happened.)

Forgiving Shame

This idea, of three kinds of shame, is reflected in the prayers of Yom Kippur. On Yom Kippur we ask G-d for forgiveness. Interestingly, though, there are three words for forgiveness, M’chilah, Slichah and Kaparah. Now we say these words over and over again and again throughout the Yom Kippur prayers but they mean the same thing.

By now you might have surmised that each of these three types of forgiveness forgives another type of shame.

M’chilah is what we generally know as forgiveness. In other words, “I feel like a fool because last year I promised to control myself and I failed. I’m humbled, humiliated and I’m asking you to forgive my stupidity.”

Slicha means to overlook the sin. In other words, “I know I’ve overstepped my boundaries and I’m no longer as deserving of your love as before but I ask you to forgive me by overlooking that violation and bringing me close to you anyway.”

Kapara is cleansing. There is a violation which is damaging but we’re going to do away with that damage and become as close as before. In fact we’ll be even closer than before because post-violation has to be a stronger bond than pre-violation.

Incidentally it’s the Kapara which is the most fundamental, which is where Yom Kippur gets its name, Kippur being from the same word as Kapara. It’s a day of cleansing, of mending a violated relationship.

Those were the thoughts I shared on the air, I thought that I had lost my audience but Charlie Freedman (host of the happy hour show on KSCO) called and said, “The ideas you’ve spun out are like a flower that keeps opening and opening, and we keep listening and seeing more and more. Your explanation of the difference between guilt and humiliation I found tremendously elucidating and the idea of healthy vs. unhealthy guilt very valuable.” Thanks Charlie.

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Wednesday August 15, 2007

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Today we discussed repentance. I chose this topic because we’ve just commenced the Jewish month of Elul, the last month of the Jewish year. In Judaism the thirty days before every holiday is traditionally prep time and the month of Elul is the thirty days before the High Holidays, the days of judgment and repentance.

We should now be evaluating our relationship with our Maker.

Mending this relationship used to consist of roving preachers painting pictures of hell for the people warning that this was their only hope if they don’t repent.

The Baal Shem Tov and Chassidus taught us is that if you ever find yourself in a spiritual dilemma you can get your answer by comparing your relationship with G-d to an ordinary marriage. Ask yourself, “Would doing this result in a healthy marriage or not?”

Repenting or returning to G-d means returning to a committed relationship. Last year we committed to give G-d our undivided attention. During the year we got distracted by all the things listed in Oprah's list of twenty questions (see below)! Now it’s time to recommit, to begin to love again, to respect again and to focus on what He needs.

A man once read in a magazine that a good husband brings his wife flowers everyday. So he bought flowers on his way home. His wife thanked him but gently explained that she doesn’t like flowers. He said he understood and that it was OK. But the next day he came home with flowers and again the next despite his wife’s protests. This man was trying so hard to be a “Good Husband” but in realty he wasn’t being a husband at all. He was giving her what HE felt she would want not what she actually needed.

So if you think going to Shul and beating your chest is just because you feel you are lacking and this will make you a better person, don’t even bother. That’s not what being devoted is, that’s just being selfish, self centered.

I gave an example of why our society is going ... in a hand basket. It’s this article by Oprah Winfrey, “Questions to ask before you get married.”

It’s not until the 14th question that she talks about family at all. No, it’s all about money! Here you have a well-respected celebrity telling us to treat dating for marriage like job interviews…

Then we discussed how to get our minds to control or “rule over” our emotions.

Michael called and said, “I’ve been giving G-d what I thought He would want, you’ve uprooted that notion for me. You’ve given me peace.”

Join us next Wednesday at 7pm for “Guilt: a healthy reflex.”

Until then,
Shalom

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