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I am very excited for the opportunity to share words of Torah with you. Each week, in this spot, I look to share an idea I've found that speaks to me and that I think will resonate with you as well. This week, I share with you an excerpt from an article  by Adam Lieberman entitled "Law of Attraction" which speaks about how we should view our successes.

This week's Torah portion is actually a song that Moses told to the Jewish people. In one of its verses, Moses fortold the future and warned the Jews that they would:
"become fat ... and ... desert God..." (Deuteronomy, 32:15 ) Why does becoming fat - or having material success - lead to deserting God? The answer lies in a powerful human nature reality. This universal truism states that ego and success go hand in hand. When a person has success of any kind it can cause his ego to become instantly inflated.

Let's walk through a typical cycle. If a person is down on his luck and believes in God, he'll ask Him to make things better. When God turns things around, this person is certainly connected and appreciative to the One who did it. Once someone has success in a particular area of his lives, the Law of Attraction then comes into play. This Law, put simply, is that you will attract more of what you already have. So, when someone is successful it almost inevitably "attracts" and leads to more success. Success does beget success. This Law is at work in countless different areas of your life.

And when the Law of Attraction kicks in, something fascinating happens: A person's ego springs into action. When the initial success that God gave to a person attracts more success, this person has a natural tendency to believe that it was he - not God - who got him the increased amount of success. His thinking - either consciously or sub-consciously - is that while God got him out of the starting gate, it was he who took the ball and made the most of the initial success.

While this might be true, there's one key and crucial element missing in the thought process. Yes, you did work hard and you did make the most of the opportunities you had BUT it was God that allowed the success to come to you. This last part is counter-intuitive and it's the exact thing that God is warning us against. Most people can see God's hand in their lives when they "catch a break" and something quickly changes and goes their way. But when they begin to ride their new found success to higher levels, they completely believe that it was their effort making the results happen.

[...] When you live with the truism that God controls everything, it becomes incredibly liberating. This is because if you put forth the effort and don't get the "success" you desired it was only because God knows that at this point it's the perfect and precise outcome that's tailor-made for you. [...] Put in the necessary effort and then see what God thinks is best. (Therefore, those who live with this reality understand just how silly it is ever to lie, cheat, or steal in business.) [...] Start off this brand new year knowing Who's really filling in all the numbers on your check - and know that He wants to make it huge.

Hoping and praying for a Shabbat Shalom and a Gmar Chatimah Tovah,
Rabbi Davies
Rabbi@SOICherryHill.org

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A special thank you to Debbie Fineberg for putting together the Security Volunteer Sign Up spreadsheet for Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur.
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