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Can you LIVE with this?

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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picture the worst case scenario and say, "Can I live with it?" And I said, "Well, what happens if it keeps getting delayed, gets canceled altogether, gets so late, I can't get on it because I won't make it back for Shabas. I could stay at my in-laws. I could stay at my daughter and say, "We'll figure it out." We think that our emotion is automatic. It's automatic. I'm anxious. I'm worried. I'm angry. I'm nervous. I'm jealous. We think it's automatic. How I feel is automatic. But when we realize there's a pause, there's a pregnant pause between what's happening and how we react. Are you just a thermometer that reports how you feel? Or are you a thermostat that regulates and changes the temperature of how you feel?