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The Alliance for Continuing Rabbinic Education (ACRE) is dedicated to advancing the field of continuing rabbinic education.

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The Torah ideal is to speak to others in a manner that makes it a pleasurable experience. Your tone of voice should be calm and pleasant when you speak to anyone. Do not speak in anger or raise your voice. --Rabbi Eliyahu Lopian (1872-1970)
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Silence is a creation...Silence is not simply the lack of speech. At times, silence "says" much more than words can express. --Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe
The giver gets more than the recipient. The recipient acquires something material and limited. The one who gives, however, acquires a good and pure heart. --Rabbi Yosef Yozel Hurwitz
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The desire for honor tugs at a person's heart more than any other longing or desire in the world. --Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
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The body needs air. What is the air of the soul? Faith. --Rabbi Eliyahu Lopian
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Teach your tongue to say, " I do not know," lest you invent something and be trapped. --Berachot 4A
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Woe to the pampered one who has never been trained to be patient. Either today or in the future he is destined to sip from the cup of affliction--Rabbi Menachem Leffin
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The money of your friend should be as dear to you as your own. --Pirkei Avot 2:12
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Do not judge your fellow until you come to his place. --Pirkei Avot 2:4
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Let your house be open wide and let the poor be like members of your household. --Pirkei Avot 1:5
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The person who guards his speech builds real power. This is the power of self-discipline, the knowledge that one has control over his impulses, that he has the inner strength to restrain himself, measure his words and act in accord with the highest aspects of himself.
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The humble person finds serenity; one who seeks honor and recognition cultivates a life of inevitable frustration. --Rabbi Chaim Shmulevitz
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Accustom yourself to finding satisfaction in acting kindly towards others and seeing the meanness in stinginess. --Rabbi Menachem Mendel Leffin
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In a multitude of words there is no lack of sin, but he that refrains his lips is wise. --Proverbs 10:19
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Know that truth and righteousness are the ornaments of the soul, and they provide the individual with everlasting courage and confidence. --The Rambam
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I added a video to a @YouTube playlist youtu.be/6baf7cewebc?a Mussar 2018 Webinar Series Visualization and Contemplation
God has told you, person, what is good and what the Lord expects from you. But to perform justice, love kindness, and walk modestly with your God. --Micah 6:8
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