059 | A Heart with Many Rooms

So much to grapple with right now; I’m overwhelmed, and you may be, too.

All I can contribute at this moment is that I know that escalating violence never works.

May there be peace in my lifetime. Rachamim—Compassion—רַחֲמִים.

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Posted @withregram • @adameli I’ve never met Rabbi Blausten but I’m grateful for her words “Our sages taught ‘make for yourself a heart of many rooms עשה לבך חדרי חדרים’. And with that teaching a reminder that it is possible, perhaps essential, to be upset and angry at rockets, at evictions, at airstrikes, at racist incitement, and to not compromise our humanity through selective compassion”