Another blistering day in LA......

........... and after a cool drink of water upon returning home from picking up the kids from camp, I learned today's Hayom Yom. It was so beautiful and inspirational that it had to make the blog.

"There are two general approaches in healing a bodily illness : a) To heal the particular organ or faculty that is defective, sick or weak; b) to strengthen the healthy organs and faculties so that they may overcome and heal the sick organ or faculty.

The parallel in illness of the soul are the two approaches in service of G-d -- *teshuva and good deeds."

*teshuva = to return or repent

I thought it was particularly meaningful when read in conjuction with yesterday's Hayom Yom (in which we are urged, in the coming month of Elul, to do a 'stock-take' of our spiritual strengths and deficiencies in order that we may be prepared for the month of Tishrei that marks a brand new year.)

Happy assessing !!