If You Believe
Mar 25, 2026
The craziest thing happened to me this past Shabbos.
I was in the park with Deeds, enjoying the stunning weather, watching him make friends, doing what mothers of preschoolers do: half parenting, half schmoozing with whichever woman happens to be standing nearby while your child pretends he has known hers since birth.
So I’m talking to this mother for a full hour.
A full hour.
And at some point we both realize we haven’t even exchanged names yet. (Tell me this has never happened to you?!)
So I tell her my name.
She does a full double take and says, “Wait... what's your relation to the other Fally Klein? The one who does podcasts?”
I start laughing and tell her that there's no relation. It's just me.
She was stunned.
And then she says, “That’s so crazy. I kept thinking this whole time that you sound exactly like Fally Klein. But I knew it couldn’t be you because I knew you lived in Israel.”
But I don’t live in Israel.
So let’s just take this in.
This woman has watched me on podcasts.
She knows what my face looks like.
She sat across from me for an hour.
She kept thinking I sounded like me.
And still, she literally could not see me.
Why?
Because her belief was stronger than what was right in front of her.
That’s cognitive dissonance.
Our beliefs shape our reality more than reality itself does.
What we believe will often feel more true than what is actually, objectively true.
Whether you believe you can or you cannot, you’re usually going to prove yourself right.
That’s part of the deepest message of Pesach. Chazal teach that it was in the merit of the righteous women that we were redeemed from Mitzrayim. Their belief in geulah was stronger than the evidence in front of them, and that holy chutzpah, the refusal to collapse into despair, helped make redemption possible.
Miracles don’t defy belief.
They prove it.
Because sometimes you have to be crazy enough to believe in something that doesn’t yet exist in order to make space for it to come into being.
You have to believe in the impossible long enough to make it possible.
That’s part of what stepping into Azamra requires.
It’s a huge leap.
Because it asks you to believe in a version of yourself you cannot fully see yet. It asks you to make room for the future facilitator.
That gap between who you are today and who you could become is where the dissonance lives.
You can’t see it, so you assume it isn’t real.
But we can.
At Azamra, we relate to you as the facilitator we already know you will become.
We teach to that standard.
We hold you to that standard.
We build toward that standard.
We see beyond the story your fear is telling you about what is and isn’t possible for your life.
And then we help you become someone who can see it too.
Come learn in a space that sees who you're becoming.
Come be trained at the level of who you're here to be.
Your Future Self thanks you.
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