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We want to be like all the nations- 1 Samuel 8.

One of the major problems that people have is the tendency to want what others have. In Hebrew, we have a saying that is similar to a popular English one: “The neighbor’s grass is always greener”. In the first book of Samuel, the elders of the Israel say to Samuel that he is too old, [...]

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The ideal and the reality – an example from The Scriptures- part 1

There is always in our life a strong or big tension between what we wish for us, for our friends, for the world and between what is really happening, this tension between what we want and we get from our life is an old one , and in the scriptures there are a lot of [...]

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