COLLECTED & CONSIDERED
Collected & Considered

Points to Ponder

Highlights

Passages Eli highlighted and returns to — each one a card, in the style he shares them.

The best things any of us can give our children are values to live by, ideals to aspire to, an identity so that they know who they are, and a religious and moral heritage to guide them through the wilderness of time

Jonathan Sacks, The Eternal Conversation

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In his later years, the Mashgiach was asked if the talmidim could compile a booklet of minhagim of Emunas Yisroel. He responded with a smile, "From which year?"

R' Shimon Finkelman, Rav Moshe Wolfson

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One of the great rules in life is that there is always another opinion. If you are able to hear it and not be disturbed by it, you will grow in character. You don’t have to agree with it, but you have to know that there is another opinion.

R' Berel Wein, A Lifetime of Learning

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The worst thing about clichés is that they mean nothing - right up until the moment they mean everything.

Jonathan Goodman, Unhinged Habits

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In every aspect of life, exaggeration is seen as abnormal, and the same is true in the observance of mitzvos ~ Rav Yehuda Amital

Rav Judah Mischel, Baderech Haggadah

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"Let your home be a meeting place for the wise." On the other hand, "let your home be opend wide." A household must be open to all not only the wise. It means this: your home should be wide open, every person who enters your house should become wise

Shulamit Ezrachi, The Mashgiach

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“Personal finance is more personal than it is finance,” says financial advisor Tim Maurer

Morgan Housel, The Art of Spending Money

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We are in a perpetual struggle of good and evil. It's the only way to look at it, the only way to talk about it. It's not Israel vs the Palestinians; it's not diplomacy; it's not imperialism; it's not the Middle East. It's good and evil. And there is no middle ground.

R' Brian Rubenstein, Turmoil Through the Eyes of Faith - From the Teachings of R' Berel Wein

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You know what the nine days are all about? It's when the Ribbono shel Olam shows us what we look like, and what we could look like. It should give us strength to show us how we could be. Eileh hadevarim.

Compiled by R' Shlomo Katz, The Torah Commentary of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach - Devarim

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A certain gadol once remarked, "It is true that the chassidim and misnagdim have a different order for the Shacharis prayers, but when they get to Yehi Chevod - May Hashem's glory endure forever and ever - they all come together, and all work for the same goal."

Shmuel Himelstein, Words of Wisdom, Words of Wit

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While we may not be experts at persuading others, we all seem to have a talent for persuading ourselves.

Daniel Taub, Beyond Dispute

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The question of how to to live is most critical during routine times, when nothing special is happening

Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, Farbrengen

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