Mendel Bluming | Blogger

A business can never succeed if you are always working IN the business rather than ON the business. If each day we focus on putting out the fires, in getting through our to do lists and managing cash flow; the business may be failing miserably and we will have no idea.   Only if a person steps back and asks the tough questions will the business remain healthy. Am I meeting my goals? What is my long-term strategy? Am I aligned with my mission? Should the business still exist? Is it adapting to changing realities? Etc   This Hebrew month of Elul in preparation for Rosh Hashanah is called Chodesh Hacheshbon (the month of honest accounting) and it is meant for us to do just that. To make a true accounting of how we are running our business of life and if it is succeeding in meeting goals and mission. Spend a few minutes on that today... May your business of life thrive with purpose, meaning and happiness! Menachem Mendel Bluming based on Hayom Yom

There is a story of a group of Jews in the 1920's who were debating which political philosophy aligns with the Torah? Each was able to quote the Torah as support for their preferred ideology.  One argued for monarchism, as the Torah itself condones rule by a royal family. Another argued for socialism. Doesn't the Torah command us to share our wealth with the poor? A third insisted that the Torah is communist. We don't really own any property, it all belongs to G-d. No one could win the debate, as each side presented strong Torah proofs for their case. So they turned to Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, to adjudicate.  The Rebbe told them:  "You are all right. Every political platform, indeed every man-made philosophy in the world, is a mixture of both good and evil. Only the holy Torah, G-d's wisdom, is pure goodness. You can find the positive elements of every other philosophy in the world somewhere in the Torah." Profound foun

I asked Google (July 2021) how many covid mutations have been identified and this is what they told me: “scientists have now identified at least 3,981 unique descendants of the first Covid virus that emerged in December 2019. The Delta itself already has at least 637 descendants that have been identified in the lab.”  Not a family that I would like to be a member of... In the deeper teachings of Judaism, we are taught that unless you eradicate the source of a negative trait within yourself it will mutate indefinitely. In fact, the Rebbe Maharash, one of the greatest Jewish sages of all time, teaches that ego can even mutate in the garb of a pious Jew. A person can be outwardly pious and that outward appearance gives them the feeling that they are holy and must no longer be on guard for their inner viruses, a dangerous mistake. In addition there are times when you are needed to do something important and just at that moment a very pious religious calling comes to your mind. It is poss