Minyan Replay w/ Rabbi Steven: Parshat Chukat

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It's finally here, builder renewal season builder ship powers this community and makes it possible for us to bring you services, education, podcasts, and so much more. If you're a builder at Mishcon great, we can't wait for you to renew your commitment. And if you're not already a builder, we invite you to join the community. Not in Chicago land, join the 10% of our builder community who live outside of Illinois. It would be an honor to take the next step on your Jewish journey with you.

Good morning everyone. It's so nice to see all of you today. And begin by centering ourselves in our breath. If you haven't yet today. Take a deep breath. I always like to take it in through the nose. Slowly out through the mouth.

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We begin by giving thanks for the fact of our existence here and now.

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Welcome again, those who just joined us so nice to have you all here. Continuing our theme of gratitude I want us to take a moment and is a practice that often begin minion with is to focus in on something that you're feeling grateful for today can be something big, something small. Something that's bringing you joy, or comfort or contentment or even just a sense of stability and grounding this morning. It's not to deny all of the difficulties or obstacles that we might face the pain we might be holding, but to create space alongside all of that. A little room for gratitude. to reorient us remind us why we're working so hard in the first place and if you feel inspired and you want to put in the chat. What you're feeling grateful for this morning we can create gratitude lists to help lift up inspire each other

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My coffee was so few people sipping their coffee. I love that. Obviously this is the coffee blessing. For tea wherever your caffeine of choice in the morning is. Specifically list our gratitude list here in the chat. Watching the end of hurricane bear over Lake Michigan, seeing some of the storms now as well. Grateful being able to practice yoga with friends enjoy quality time together after grateful for multiple choices and chances in this life grateful for friendships grateful for your therapists and therapists in general and a Deaf cosine and that gratitude grateful for the magic of remote work lined up in two places at once. Grateful for friendships including cheeky cats and my cat was visiting us this morning grateful for meeting new people who are kind of interesting grateful for old friends reaching out for living to reach a new age grateful for enduring friendships 50 years of them and also if you haven't expressed gratitude your therapist directly do that it's always good to get some positive feedback all good things to be grateful for Thank you everyone. I'm grateful to be here with all of you this morning and continue fostering

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I'm going to take a moment for prayers for healing. If you're thinking of somebody in need of healing, whether it's a mind of body or spirit, when hold their name in your heart, or share their name in the chat. Send this blessing to each and every one of them that they might experience a refresh they might complete recovery. They're not meant to be recovered in this lifetime. We pray for days of comfort, nights of peace surrounded by loved ones.

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pray for all those refurbished sight MA or no a body of no of spirit that we can say I mean I'm gonna take just a moment here for personal silent prayer you can use the words of the see door which I'll copy into the chat here. You can use whatever words come to your heart or mind or take just a moment for breathing. We'll come back to there in about a minute in about a minute

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