>> Torah portion Become a Hospice Volunteer! Helping Hands, Compassionate Heart Hospice Compassus is searching for new Volunteers! Call Now! Hospice Volunteers may provide some of the following services: Your Moral Bucket List Parshat Achrei Mot-Kedoshim: Leviticus 16:1-20:27; Amos 9:7-15. •Office/Administrative tasks •Friendly home or care center visits •Reading to patients/writing letters •Light housekeeping/running errands •Meal preparation •Patient caregiver relief •Emotional and spiritual support •Assist with grief support groups At the heart of who we are stands cornpassior • Helping with health fairs/community education For more information or to register for training, please stop by our office or contact our Volunteer Coordinator at the numbers listed below. I n a recent article in the New York also an important piece of information: Times titled "The Moral Bucket People will love others for the same List:' columnist David Brooks reason as they love themselves. Many philosophers, and now many shared some very personal thoughts about his life. Adapted from his new therapists, have declared that you can't book The Road to Character, Brooks love someone else until you first love talks about two types of virtues that we yourself. Sounds right and true, how- value and strive to enhance. ever, loving yourself is not enough. In "It occurred to me that order to truly love, accept there were two sets of vir- and connect with another tues, the resume virtues person, we have to love our- and the eulogy virtues. selves for the right reasons. The resume virtues are If I love myself because I the skills you bring to the am good at mathematics, it marketplace. The eulogy will be natural for me to like virtues are the ones that are and connect with others who talked about at your funeral share the same talent and — whether you were kind, passion. It will be harder to brave, honest or faithful. connect to those who don't Rabbi Y Israel Were you capable of deep care about math and even Pins on love?" harder to be in a relationship We all agree that the with those who hate math. eulogy virtues are more important, If I love myself only because of physi- yet many of us put a lot more thought cal and material characteristics, it will and energy into our resume virtues, strongly limit the amount of people sometimes to the expense of the eulogy that I can truly connect with. virtues. If I love myself because of my spiri- A very famous verse appears in tual and divine traits, I have an oppor- this week's Torah reading: "Ve'ahavta tunity to connect and bond with any- Lere'acha Kamocha." This verse is usu- one who has any spiritual and divine ally translated as: You shall love your character, which is everyone who was neighbor as yourself (Leviticus 19:18), put on this Earth by God. and declared by Rabbi Akiva to be a If I love myself because I value my most important principle in the Torah. eulogy virtues, and I cultivate them According to most Halachic authori- regularly, I have the capacity to find ties, these three words are not only the good and spiritual in those around good advice but loving your fellow man me. If I love myself only because of my is actually one of the 613 command- resume virtues, I will find it very dif- ments that we are enjoined to follow. ficult to truly love another person. Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, in Sometimes, we just need to remind Chapter 32 of the Tanya, interprets ourselves what our most important val- this verse a little differently. It gives ues are. 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