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STANDING UP ON THE INSIDE

A five year old girl was having one of those trouble-filled days with her mother. It seemed they spent the day arguing back and forth. Finally the mom had enough. "Jenny, go sit in the corner, right now! Don’t get up until I tell you to!"

Jenny went to the corner and sat down. In a few minutes she called back, "Mom, I am sitting down on the outside, but I am standing up on the inside!"

We all tend to have a "standing on the inside" nature. The Jewish people call it the "yetzer ha ra," or the "evil...

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