Dear Friends,
In our Torah portion this week, Ki Tavo, we have an awesome array of blessings and curses. At this season, as we begin to reflect on our behaviors over the course of the past year, it is important to keep an open mind regarding what constitutes a blessing and what manifests itself as a curse, for sometimes the distinction between the two can be blurry.
In order to maximize our blessings and minimize our curses, it is helpful to keep an open mind and train ourselves to learn and grow from our mistakes. It is important to expand our abilities to see our losses as opportunities to grow and approach every task with sincerity, empathy, and honesty.
As human beings, we are bound to fail, but our failings need not curse us. This season invites us to identify blessing that emerge from our mistakes and encourages us to seek opportunities to extend ourselves to promote goodness, kindness and truth to the world around us. In this way, any curse that may seem to befall us can become a blessing in disguise.
L’Shalom,
Steve