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Seven Habits of Highly Evolved People

a seven-week journey of spiritual character refinement preparing for
the High Holy Days of 2025-5786
 
This series ended September 16, 2025

Session 7 • September 16, 2025: Love

Love as behavioral and spiritual mitzvah
Love as Torah narrative
​Love as inner corrective
Fractals of love
Ahavat Hinam • senseless love

Starting with Slide 135

Session 6 • September 9, 2025: Community

Sociological a of Community
Spiritual Functions in Community
Communitarian Liturgy of High Holy Days
"Don't Separate From Community"
Atonement and Teshuvah Implications

Starting with Slide 111

Session 5 • September 2, 2025: Stumbles

Lifnei Iver - causing others' stumbling
Tokhehah revisited: mandates and limits
Our own stumbles: guilt versus shame
The Jewish spirituality of sacred stumbles
Falldowngetup to ease teshuvah

Starting with Slide 90

Session 4 • August 26, 2025: Goodness

Goodness versus spiritual "theft"
Normalcy Bias & Negativity Bias
Spiritual Pitfalls and Cognitive Repair
Spiritual Bypassing & Avoidance
Tools: Blessings, Gratitude, Hakarat Ha-Tov

Starting with Slide 68

Session 3 • August 19, 2025: Assumptions

Cognitive Psychology of Assumptions
Biases: Availability, Affinity, Confirmation Fundamental Attribution Error
Assuming the Divine Image
Judging from the Side of Merit
Middot (Character Qualities) of Discernment
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Starting with Slide 51

Session 2 • August 12, 2025: Actions

Into Heart Space
Not Standing Idly By, Not Hiding
Negative Emotion, Showing Up
Verbal Acts, Impulses to Action   
Inner Conditions for Tokhehah
Calling in, Calling Out​
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Starting with Slide 26

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Session 1 • August 5, 2025: Words

Introductions
Taking the Name in Vain
Motzi Shem Ra • Falsity
Rekhilut • Slander & Gossip
Lashon HaRa • Wrong Speech
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Starting with Slide 1

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