Go on a Cruise—Keep the Sabbath and Introspection
I recently went to a sales promotion for a cruise line trip. Their strongest pitch and the one they opened the presentation with (after the pretty girl of course) was that on the cruise trip you were the master of your own time.
The visual imagery they used was throwing into a garbage can, your cell phone, day-timer and computer. Be your own master again and work on your own body clock was the sale point.
If one follows the bible, we get to take a cruise every Saturday. We don't turn on our phone, cells, or e-mail and take a break from the work week. Three thousand five hundred years ago, long before any of this was invented; G-d said spend the day in meditation about where you came from and where you are going.
Today is a day of retrospection, because we remember the destruction of the two temples and various mishaps that have burdened the Jewish People. We call the day, Tishabov, meaning the eight day of this Hebrew Month with the name of Ov.
It is considered the saddest day of the Jewish year and we mourn for our losses and murders over the recorded modern History.
It is also considered the day with the most potential for our sadness to end and for the new world to start.
May you be blessed with love and kindness and compassion and be this truly be the beginning of the Utopian world that we all long to live in. In the meantime let's go to work.
Love Yehuda
since today is a day of Introspection, here is a test to start you mind thinking
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test for today?
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A QUIZ FOR
PEOPLE WHO KNOW EVERYTHING
This is a
quiz for people who know everything!
I
found out in a hurry that I didn't.
These
are not trick questions.
They are
straight questions with straight answers.
1. Name the
one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the
score or the leader
until the contest ends.
2. What
famous North American landmark
is constantly moving backward?
3. Of all
vegetables, only two can live to produce
on their own for several growing seasons.
All other vegetables must
be replanted every year.
What are the only two perennial vegetables?
4. What
fruit has its seeds on the outside?
5. In many
liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy,
with a real pear inside the
bottle.
The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine;
it
hasn't been cut in any way.
How did the pear get inside the bottle?
6. Only
three words in standard English
begin with the letters 'dw' and
they
are all common words.. Name two of them.
7. There are 14 punctuation
marks in English
grammar.
Can you name at least half of them?
8. Name the
only vegetable or fruit
that is never sold frozen, canned, processed,
cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
9. Name 6
or more things that you can wear
on your feet beginning with the letter
'S...'
THIS IS
PRETTY COOL
HAVE A
GREAT DAY
Answers To
Quiz:
1. The one
sport in which neither the spectators
nor the participants know the
score or the leader
until the contest ends .
Boxing
2. North
American landmark constantly moving backward.
Niagara
Falls
(The rim is
worn down about two and a half feet
each year because of the millions
of gallons
of water that rush over it every minute..)
3. Only two
vegetables that can live to produce
on their own for several growing
seasons . .
Asparagus
and rhubarb .
4. The
fruit with its seeds on the outside ..
Strawberry.
5. How did
the pear get inside the brandy bottle?
It grew inside the bottle.
(The
bottles are placed over pear buds
when they are small, and are wired in
place
on the tree. The bottle is left in place
for the entire growing
season.
When the pears are ripe, they are snipped
off at the stems.)
6. Three
English words beginning with dw
Dwarf,
dwell and dwindle.
7. Fourteen punctuation
marks in English
grammar. .Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash,
hyphen, apostrophe, question mark,
exclamation point,quotation marks,
brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.
8. The only
vegetable or fruit never sold frozen,
canned, processed, cooked, or in
any other form
but fresh -
Lettuce.
9. Six or
more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S'.
Shoes,
socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers,
skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings,
stilts.
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