Good morning, everyone, good evening, good afternoon, wherever you are, and welcome to this week's

weekly energy boost. My name is Elisheva, and I am here this beautiful Monday morning with

Batya yet again.

We were lucky enough to wrangle her into the studio for another episode.

And we're talking this morning about blessings and curses, which are two words, I think, that means something different to everyone.

And we're going to unpack that this morning.

Weekly energy boost is a seven-day spiritual weather forecast where we aim to provide our listeners with the

most powerful, practical, and poignant. Let's add another P-word there. Poignant, wisdom,

wisdom and tools to help our listeners navigate the upcoming seven days,

but inevitably through those discussions, we provide our listeners with very powerful and

practical life lessons as well. And this week, we're bringing up a concept that comes up

in the wisdom of Kabbalah time and again, this idea of what it means to be blessed

and what it means, what is a curse. And I think in spiritual circles in general, the word curse

gets a bad rap, as it should. But it really does, you know, I think it's important to point out

that when we're talking about curses today, we're not talking about when you curse someone. We're talking about that feeling.

And I think even Batya mentioned it last week that sometimes we have these perspectives or

we look at our life circumstances and we say, well, I'm just screwed. Or I don't know what

I did to deserve this or why does everybody else

have this and I don't. We tend to look at life as some people say rat race. Some people say

we've become so consumerist that it's all about what I can get and what I

can achieve and what I can accomplish and we're not focused on being human beings.

We're focused on being human doings.

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