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Yoma 4

In today’s Daf Yomi page, learning to find the awe in life

April 15, 2021

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 4, reminds us that everything worth doing is worth doing with a profound sense of awe. For a long time, our guest today, author Michal Oshman, was struggling with that insight: The granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, she grew up to have a successful career with some of the world’s leading tech companies, but couldn’t shake off her sense of anxiety and dread. It was meditating on Judaism’s teachings about creation’s inherent awe that brought her around, helping her find a sense of gratitude and peace. How can we make our life literally more awesome? Listen and find out.

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