This is a regular feature on Winds of Change. Every Friday (for Friday evening begins the Jewish Sabbath), we cover one more way to wisdom from Rabbi Noah Weinberg. These materials are written by a Jewish Rabbi, but retain their full value no matter what creed you follow.
Today's Way to Wisdom deals with fear. How do you? Deal with fear, I mean. Rabbi Noah Weinberg writes:
The Hebrew word yirah means both "to fear" and "to see." Way #6 -- Yirah - teaches that the essential choice of life is to open our eyes to available opportunities, and to fear the consequences of avoiding that reality....Interested in how to do that? Read the full article.Fear is like any other emotion -- there are both positive and negative aspects. Negative fear is debilitating. Positive fear is exhilarating. The adrenaline gets the blood running in your veins. It gives you power to accomplish what you want to do. If you're walking along and spot a snake, fear propels you to run with blazing speed and hurdle the fence like an Olympian. With fear, you are out of the dream world and 100 percent into reality.
Making the right choice is a constant human struggle. We have an inclination to take the easy way out, and to ignore the coming consequences. "To see or not to see?" -- that is the Jewish question.
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