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Happy Birthday and Shabbat Shalom to Rabbi, LTJG, Jonathan Dade, MBA, MTS. So many accomplishments, and lives touched.

Operation “Activate Burner Phone”, while broken iPhone from the traumatic hit and run bicycling accident is shipped to that driver’s insurance, has begun.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to reach Rabbi Jonathan at 512.525.0736 for now. There will be apps not at our disposal, and limited capabilities, but on the flip side is a new bike (Trek Emonda or Cervelo Caledonia or Speedvagen) and sizeable compensation. See you on the other side.

Oh and we are about 2months out from a 100% recovery from the only injury… rin contusions, which in this case was the type where rib tissues were traumatically ripped from rib bones. Ouch.

Rabbi Jonathan… if you didn’t know, now you know, and you can watch the show he was on, Sunday 30 July 2023.

Meet the Cast of 'Survive the Raft' New series premieres July 30 on Discovery Channel.

What We Are Building Together - https://mailchi.mp/rlbechad.org/what-we-are-building-together The sky is the limit this week and I look forward to seeing how high you will soar. And it is okay to not be okay; just crawl, then walk. Run, and fly.

Because it is not the critic who counts, we need to counter balance viciously rude statements like “just go away” with the affirming positivity of why we all specifically matter. It may not be easy, there will be a lot of noise, but let us start with affirming Jonathan Dade, Rabbi, Author, LTJG, MBA, and MTS will emerge victorious, in many things, very soon. And you have the power to help right now, with a warrior vote of confidence. We can chat later about the celebration and hot tub and wine party… let us first make the monumental, happen. Being a wounded veteran, eating the keto diet, endurance cycling, and claiming to be an overall charming guy got us to this juncture, but how much further can we go? Lastly, we have so much to catch up on but in The Church and The Community, page 221, we learn that goals are accomplished with three things. Do you know what they are? It is time to get to work…

The Email You Waited 14 Months For... - https://mailchi.mp/rlbechad.org/the-email-you-waited-14-months-for Counter missiles launched. JonathanDade.com is back. And even Messiah Echad mentioned a re-launch, in a new location. More to come.

The group therapy assignment was to write words we positively saw in each other, on that persons’ back, then allow them to meditate on it later.

Today, I reflect on being humble and headstrong… seemingly an oxymoron (like Mathew 10:16), but we need balanced yet opposing traits. What are yours?

Do you ever feel like telling that toxic person in your life to go fly a kite. If the answer is no, maybe try it sometime.
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It is as simple as flying a kite, and I experienced the joy of this therapeutic activity, while on a retreat with the Wounded Warrior Project. The thing is, some people take biblical, personal, and often truthful things, then weaponize them against us, in deeply hurtful ways. Granted, we occasionally do it to ourselves, the fact remains… you might not be able to eliminate harmful people or thoughts from your life, but you can place them at a safe distance. Today, we wrote these things on the tails of a kite and sent them 300 feet into the air. It was liberating to say the least, seeing those names and words at a distance that could no longer hurt us, and we controlled it all with a nylon string. In The Church and The Community, Page 151, I wrote about distance from toxicity. Now, I implore you to take to heart this lesson and activity, or, simply tell that toxic person to go fly a kite. Boom. https://rlbechad.org/distance-from-toxicity-jld/

If you are tired of talking about the that clearly harms people of color, on a daily basis, do something about it!
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