Vayikra: Real Humility

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This week’s Torah portion is Vayikra: Real Humility.

What does it mean to be humble?

In this week’s Torah Portion, Moshe’s brother and sister are slandering him and his wife, and he doesn’t say a word. The scholar and Torah commentator Ramban says that the Torah mentions Moshe’s humility “in that he endured [the insult] and did not answer them back…”

What is it about not answering them back that indicates Moshe’s humility?

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About the Author

Special thanks to Yael Shy and our friends at the Institute for Jewish Spirituality for joining us in creating weekly Shabbat moments for your Friday nights.

Yael Shy is the CEO of Mindfulness Consulting, LLC, where she teaches and consults on mindfulness for universities, corporations, and private clients around the world. She is the author of the award-winning book, What Now? Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond (Parallax, 2017), and the founder of Mindful NYU, the largest campus-based mindfulness initiative in the US. Yael is a graduate of the IJS Jewish Mindfulness Teacher Training Certification.