Rabbi Yisrael Salanter used to say, "Even though we personally should do what we can to flee from honor, we still have an obligation to treat other people with great honor and respect."
Love Yehuda Lave
Road to Machu Picchu - Peru
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk9J5xnTVMA&feature=em-share_video_user
E-mails I've received in a while.
Someone out there
must be "deadly" at Scrabble.
(Wait till you see the last one)!
PRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYER
ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER
DESPERATION:When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT
THE EYES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE
THE MORSE CODE:
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS
DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM
SLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME
ANIMOSITY:
When you rearrange the letters:
IS NO AMITY
ELECTION RESULTS:
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES - LET'S RECOUNT
SNOOZE ALARMS:
When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z 'S
A DECIMAL POINT:
When you rearrange the letters:
I'M A DOT IN PLACE
THE EARTHQUAKES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKE
ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE
AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:
MOTHER-IN-LAW:
When you rearrange the letters:
WOMAN HITLER
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The Love That Says No
by Rabbi Johnathan Sacks
When I was Chief Rabbi, each year before Rosh Hashanah I used to make a television film for the BBC. It was an interesting challenge. 99.5 per cent of the viewers were not Jewish. Jews are only half a per cent of the population of Britain. Besides which, many, even most of them weren't religious believers at all. Britain is quite a secular society. So how do you explain to a non Jewish non religious audience what teshuvah is?It occurred to me that one dramatic way of doing so was thinking about addiction. After all, to cure an addiction you have to go through most of the stages of teshuvah. You have to recognise that taking drugs is wrong: what we call charatah. You have to undertake to act differently in future: what we call shinui maaseh. And we have to be able to resist temptation when it comes our way again: what Maimonides defined as teshuvah gemurah, complete repentance.
So I spent a day at a rehabilitation centre for heroin addicts. I found it incredibly moving. Here were kids, 16 to 18 years old. Most of them came from broken homes. Some had suffered abuse when young, others simply neglect. They'd had a terrible past. Trouble was, by seeking refuge in drugs they were going to have an even more terrible future.
The people running the centre were amazing, and they were changing lives. But to me the most remarkable moment happened while I was speaking to the head of the centre, a young woman with, I remember, pink hair and punk clothes. Yet when she spoke Shekhinah medaberet tokh gronah, it was as if I were hearing the Divine presence.
I asked her what it was that the centre did for the young addicts that helped them change their lives. She replied: this is the first place they've been to that offers them unconditional love. Then she said: We are the first people they've met who care enough about them to say No.
When I heard those two sentences I realized that is what God does for us this time of the year. We are sin addicts. We do things we know we shouldn't, whether it's taking drugs, or taking liberties, or not respecting others, or blaming someone else when we should be blaming ourselves. Whatever.
We could carry on like this forever, harming others but most of all harming ourselves, were it not for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur calling us to account. That's when, if we open our hearts, we encounter God offering us unconditional love, but caring about us enough to say, No.
Brigitte Gabriel keynote speaker at United Nations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MwqVmoXPbc&feature=shareon 9/12 lets remember 9/11
Daniel Lewin, an Israeli citizen and former IDF officer, was the first victim of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, killed aboard an airplane as tried to fight the hijackers.Memorial to Daniel Lewin in the main lobby of Akamai Technologies in Cambridge, MA
Daniel served for four years in the Israel Defense Forces as an officer in Sayeret Matkal, the elite IDF combat unit. He left the army after achieving the rank of captain, graduated from the Technion in Haifa, and then received a scholarship to begin graduate studies toward a Doctor of Philosophy at MIT. While at MIT, he helped come up with the innovative algorithms to enable web site to handle heavy traffic. Web sites were crashing when they had heavy traffic and he discovered how to distribute the traffic among many servers. He co-founded Akamai Techonologies which had clients such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, and Apple.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Daniel was sitting in business class seat 9b on American Airlines flight 11 on his way to a business meeting in Los Angeles. The hijackers never could have imagined that they would be faced with an elite Israeli soldier as they tried to take over the plane. FAA, FBI, and 9/11 Commission reports indicate that Daniel sprung into action to try to stop Mohamed Atta from getting into the cockpit. Daniel would not have noticed Satam al-Suqami who appears to have been sitting behind him. The reports suggest that al Suqami killed Daniel by stabbing him in the throat.
Daniel Lewin has been officially identified as the first victim of the 9/11 attacks. He is survived by his wife, Anne, and his two sons Eitan and Itamar who were five and eight years olf when their father was killed. On this day when we remember all the victims of the attacks, let us all remember Daniel Levin, an elite Israeli soldier who was killed while heroically trying to stop the attacks from coming into fruition.
