Keep Trying When Life Pulls Back

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Rabbi Silber turns the image of birth and retraction into a practical lesson for growth: creating something new is often forward and backward, but the avodah is to keep trying. Daf Yomi, Chullin 68. #dafyomi #chullin #mussar #growth #rabbisilber

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sometimes you're struggling to birth something in this world, right? We're all struggling to birth something. I want to create something new, I want to do something dramatic, I want to accomplish something great. Sometimes the initial birth occurs. You extend something, you birth something, only to then what happen? Hachzira, to pull it back. Sometimes birthing something new in this world and creating something new in this world is a lot of hard work and there's a lot of, you know, in Chassidus there's an expression ratzo v'shov, forward and backwards, and life is this continuous forward and backwards. I'm making strides forward, I'm making strides backward. So where do I end up? The avodah's just to keep trying.