“Not only can they [our children] handle more than we think, they have the potential to thrive far beyond our imagination”
Thank you so, so much for the absolutely beautiful article by Rav Ginzberg about Galus Yishmael. I had heard bits and pieces of these ideas before, but this was put together so well, and it also explained from where their possessiveness about Eretz Yisrael stems. I feel it really explains this whole time period, and truly gives us hope that Mashiach is at the door. It is well-written and also so inspiring.
Shoshana Esrig
As one of thousands of psychologists in Israel who has had to scramble for techniques to help clients and community members deal with war-induced trauma, I’d like to share a helpful technique with those readers who wrote in to express their great difficulty functioning after being exposed to traumatic images (or image-free but troubling information — even those of us who filter our news have imaginations that create images in our brains).
We’re not always in control of our brains. To be human is to occasionally have a thought or an image or a memory pop up that you don’t want. Until now, I’ve used and advised a very helpful technique to deal with this phenomenon.
The mussar seforim and, l’havdil, psychological research teach that if a thought or an image pops up that you don’t want to make space for in your brain, don’t push it away, but gently turn your attention to something else. And when it pops up again, do that again.
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