Dumpster Diving for Jewish Treasures

A couple of stories caught my intention this week, one was a big issue in the New York time about people who basically make their living by dumpsters diving, they search through garbage, their theory is they want to take anything new from the any consumption they do not want live off of any new product they want to simply live off what is already been kind if recycled life, the whole society now people growing up like this. The other story call my attention in this regard was a story a couple of weeks ago about a huge pressure fire of the bottom of somebody of water by company of searching a long time and that came up with a half a billion dollars in gold coins and there a court battle now of course about who owns it.

The reason why those 2 stories struck me was because of this notion of finding what is really valuable to you in something that has been lost and buried and discarded. There is a story in the Torah about Isaac trying to find the water to give water to his family and his community. He found the wells of his father Abraham that filled in over time by the Palestine and re dug them. One of the sad things about the modern day Judaism is that so many people have left Judaism and try to find a meaning for their lives and other religious traditions. Think about the amount of young Jews or Harichrisnar or the Monist or Tibet in Buddhist in fact there a book written by a Jew who one of the seven who want to meet head of Tibet in Buddhism, one of the questions how come there so many of this leadership were born Jewish.

The book is called the book of Jewel of Lodest and obviously I think that Judaism was missing something for a long time, the rabbi’s was not a Judaism was missing something was the teachers of Judaism were presenting authentic Judaism, they maybe steered away from the substance and essence of Judaism which is god and the life of the spirit and holiness and the pinioned in favor of other thing that are important to them to the time about building community and dealing with Israel and Anti-Semitism on the holocaust but you can not take the guts of Judaism out of it. The spiritual dimensions of god and Torah of the life of the, the search of meaning which Judaism gave for the world, the idea of monotheism and holiness and take away and expect people to stay. It is a religion that gives so much to the world and have to reclaim it instead of people discarding it and people now re think are coming to it, we see a renewal and the resurging of young people looking back on their own roots because we are recovering that, it is does not have to found in the bottom of the dumpster anymore.


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