Did someone walk by you and not say hello? Did the boss reply with too short a message? Did your spouse respond in the wrong tone? Our brains automatically start writing stress scripts, and we're sure we know exactly what they meant.
In a lesson on Parashat Shelah, Rabbi Yoav Akrish reveals the true depth of the story of the spies' sin: They failed not in what they saw, but in how they chose to interpret what they saw.
And this is exactly the mistake we make every day: we confuse what really happened with the story we tell ourselves about it - and that story becomes our reality.
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In the lesson we will talk about:
Why we misinterpret almost everything - and how to stop it in the moment
The difference between what happened and what I chose to feel about it
The internal tool that allows me to stay calm even when I have no explanation for why this is happening to me.
The powerful stories of Rabbi Akiva ("All David, the Merciful, is good") and Rabbi Nachum of Chernobyl
