Yehuda Lave, Spiritual Advisor and Counselor

Appreciate Being Alive

I met a person that I started speaking with, and observed that he had a serene nature and positive outlook on life.

"How did you develop such a serene and happy way of being?" I asked him.

"I almost died twice and that taught me to ignore the irrelevant and unimportant," he said to me. "I had problems with my heart. Just surviving the surgery gave me a greater appreciation for being alive. But what totally transformed me was riding my motorcycle off a cliff. The last thing I saw was the ground rushing to greet me. Then two days later I found myself in a hospital bed in serious condition. I had broken bones and wasn't certain I would make it. I survived and healed. And now I feel great whenever I wake up in the morning. When I go to sleep, either I will wake up for another day or I will go to a better world. Either way I am a winner.

On the subject of being a winner, I can only use this joke once a year, to be relevant. Tomorrow in the Synagogue, we start reading the bible over again starting with the first chapter, Berachit. In a little known Medrash, before the creation of Eve, Adam asks G-d for a mate, that will worship him, make his life easy, and serve him daily. G-d says that will cost him dearly, and wants in price for this an arm and a leg. "An arm and a Leg" moans Adam. "What can I get for a rib?

Love Yehuda Lave

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. Milton Berle

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. T. S. Eliot

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. Woody Allen

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

Marianne Williamson

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. Alfred Hitchcock

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. Orson Welles

More people are watching college football on Snapchat than they are on television.

Evan Spiegel

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. — John Lennon

All [TV] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive. — Dan Harmon

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. Peter De Vries

So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free. » Jason Love

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Ann Landers

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. Kurt Vonnegut

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Where the word Jinx comes from

Isaac Mozeson‎ to Biblical Hebrew Etymology

A JONAH is one who brings bad luck. On Yom Kippur afternoon we read the short Biblical book of Jonah. With losing a lot (lottery), the captain learns that the sudden storm dooming his ship is Jonah's fault.

Our Biblically - illiterate dictionary writers have no clue where
J I N X comes from
It is easily from Yod/J, Vav/OA, Nun/N, guttural Hey/guttural X… יונה YOANaH (Jonah).