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How to Know When You're Giving Too Much: A Taste of Text—Chukat
While devoting yourself to helping others, safeguard time for your own spiritual and emotional growth. Focus energy inward as well as outward.
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I was so curious all along the way until the end but I still feel like the question wasn’t answered...they said in the beginning that we will know how to know when we are giving too much, if the moment you give you become impure, at least according to the parasha, then how does that tell us to know when we are giving too much?
Is it simply by not leaving a portion aside for ourselves? But the focus of the lesson the majority of the time wasn’t on why leaving the portion for yourself (or them leaving the portion of the ashes for future generations) was so important, but on the purity aspect. So we know we have to give of ourselves and know we could become impure in the process and to give selflessly and these are all great things, but how do we -from this lesson- know when we are giving too much? Where in the lesson did we learn it?