What If Being a Stranger Is Actually Your Superpower? | Better in Person

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Shabbat’s rest was not only for Jews. It extended to animals and workers too.
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In true Heuta, paired study sharpens both minds and can produce a third idea neither person could reach alone.
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“You feel like a stranger. So do I.” Shared alienation can become the first bridge between enemies.
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You do not have to believe in God to be a good Jew. Judaism includes uncertainty and nonbelief.
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Social clubs, religious communities, and bowling groups once let ideological opponents meet as human beings.
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Praying, singing, and serving meals together gives opponents firsthand evidence of one another’s decency.
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Judaism turns the experience of being a stranger into empathy, creativity, resilience, and grit.
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Ordinary people performing extraordinary acts of kindness, courage, generosity, and selflessness are a major source of awe.
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Begin hard disagreements by assuming the other person is decent and wants good things for people.
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“What is hateful to you, do not do to others” is the foundation. Everything else is commentary.
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Capitalism is not inherently rejected, but production cannot be the ultimate purpose of human life.
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Shabbat sanctifies time by setting one day apart from labor and declaring that life is more than production.
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Genuine, sustained dialogue with the apparent opposite can break the grip of binary thinking.
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Awe begins when you encounter something vast enough to exceed your ability to comprehend it.

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