Staying away from the wicked, brushing it off, slapping it like a mosquito, changing negative thoughts to good thoughts, changing the language we are thinking from English to Hebrew, taking our inner thoughts and changing them to Hebrew chants, chasing away ghosts who beckon us to befriend them, looking to our ancestors as mentors, doing what our parents did when they did the right thing, and not doing as they did when they were rebellious.
A child should not be punished for his/her parents' sins. Overcoming the times when we bit into a cheeseburger, a changed life, a life of pure kosher beef. Pork not existing as a bad omen anymore, it is not in the kitchen.
Avoiding all bad omens, thinking only beautiful thoughts like an abundance of chesed which makes one a Chassid.
Learning our lessons and internalizing them, internalizing them into our minds, hearts and bodies, always studying Torah as we see its influence on everything in our lives and use it to change evil into good. Not making the same mistakes over and over again, but following the commandments and overcoming the evils the Prophets faced too, that we too face everyday.
Praying so hard we are like Hannah who they saw as a drunk, but who instead was in the closest relationship with G-d that was possible for a mortal.
Using our skills to keep the peace in our families where adversity thrives, and to stand apart from the temptations of worshipping idols and eating non-kosher foods. Having the ability to go back, to again pray to the only One true G-d, using that springboard to stay on track, to improve, to dash our impure ways into the waters to be washed and to come up pure again.
Standing apart from the impure, trying to make pure what is impure, not having impurities take hold, take effect, instead leading a religious Jewish life.
A child should not be punished for his/her parents' sins. Overcoming the times when we bit into a cheeseburger, a changed life, a life of pure kosher beef. Pork not existing as a bad omen anymore, it is not in the kitchen.
Avoiding all bad omens, thinking only beautiful thoughts like an abundance of chesed which makes one a Chassid.
Learning our lessons and internalizing them, internalizing them into our minds, hearts and bodies, always studying Torah as we see its influence on everything in our lives and use it to change evil into good. Not making the same mistakes over and over again, but following the commandments and overcoming the evils the Prophets faced too, that we too face everyday.
Praying so hard we are like Hannah who they saw as a drunk, but who instead was in the closest relationship with G-d that was possible for a mortal.
Using our skills to keep the peace in our families where adversity thrives, and to stand apart from the temptations of worshipping idols and eating non-kosher foods. Having the ability to go back, to again pray to the only One true G-d, using that springboard to stay on track, to improve, to dash our impure ways into the waters to be washed and to come up pure again.
Standing apart from the impure, trying to make pure what is impure, not having impurities take hold, take effect, instead leading a religious Jewish life.
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