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What you say shapes the way you think

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Rabbi Josh Zebberman

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A story is told of a Jew who lived in the town of Katsk in the turn of the 20th century. He was praying with incredible passion and he looks up to the heavens and he says in Yiddish, "That t father." A skeptical bystander comments and says, "Does he actually see God as his father? He actually has that personable a relationship with God or is it just a show?" To which the katskarebe the spiritual leader of the time responded that if he continues tat tat he eventually will perceive God as his father because language creates reality. What we talk about becomes real to us. When we talk about pain that becomes real. When we talk about luxury that becomes important. And when we talk about hope, when we we talk about healing, when we talk about connection, that becomes the lens from which we see