Shalom! This is Rabbi reflects on the news volume two. Northwestern University is giving all there incoming freshmen Northwest on water balance. It is been a whole hope a lot of news lately about the problems of drinking bottled water you produce in a store. The cost of transporting it. In terms of energy the proliferation of water bottles that are not recycled but fill up our land fills that it have unbreakable water about that you keep refilling.
Our Synagogue now has them on the Synagogue that matter and the web site on it. Interesting people should think about energy all the time in conservation and that regarded the tribune, each charter tribune had editorial the other day, endorsing nuclear power again is being a mix and it is safer and more efficient. Well, I do not know all the details about nuclear power but I do know that one of the top priorities has got to be reducing our dependents on fossil fuel.
First of all, it is harming the environment that papers yesterday said China has only one percent of its cities that are breathable air and there was recently a merit on here that waters could not finish cause the air so bad, and I do not know what is going to happen in the Olympics.
It is always the nuclear power is safer and more efficient that is the tribune says. Maybe we need to consider pre med than mix. The other main problem of course is that herbs have most of the oil and in Venezuela, the dictator their in the Soviet Union is again, the main countries with all the oil are pretty dangerous and hoarding the west and that is another reason to be more independent of foreign oil.
Another story there is an economics professor name Rich, who retired and talked about how instead of people who speaks economic classes because a lot of math and statistics. He always try to teach a few basic principles and said from those few principles, you can learn so much economics. It is like the old Jewish idea from the Talmud of a gentile coming to the great say Jeloms (PH) and teach me all of Judaism I am standing on one foot and Hallo said “what is hateful to you do not to your neighbor, all the rest is commentary go on study”. Basically, love thy neighbor as thy self.
Gunnies Book Worlds of Record says; that Sri Langka there is a man there who stood on one foot for 74 hours. You can teach a lot them 74 hours. But how do you boil Judaism down the few basic principles. Well, you can see my video on what the Jews believe, that is my minorities 13 principles or the great prophet Michael, who said is to do justice and love mercy and walk humbly through with God. The great Talmudist’s teaching the world depends on three things in Torah and serving God and good deeds. Our Synagogue motto is to live to learn, to live and to love Jewishly, God and your fellows. So, boiling things down the few basic principles.
The next story, Google has this new thing where you can type an your address in one of its site and you can see through satellite imagery, basically into your front yard and so, people are saying what about privacy. Well, from the Jewish respective God can see into our hearts and so, we are always about what other people can see but we should be worry about what God can see. God can see everything.
Two more stories an Oxford Philosopher name Nostrum one of the great philosophers of the world today, believes that there is 20% chance that this world is not real. They were part of some super computers reality game and there were really made of silicon but that so sophisticated that we think were real, 20% chance. Now, whether that is true or not, its fascinating and the question comes up Philosophically and why behave. Maybe just because you hopefully that the person who did the programming has the same moral values system that we do or we should and therefore, stay around.
But I will stay around but I will stay about the in terms high holidays because our Mapsur(ph), our prayer book that we used basically sets that up. It is an imaginary game of drama, that we are they main character in and we are hoping that God would judge us for a good year. Now, some people believe its literally true may will be. But certainly from a dramatic point of view, we are in this drama to really see if we can live another year by assessing our lives and repenting.
Finally, Illinois has a new tough first offense drunk driving Laura, you are convicted of done driving and install you own expense the machine your car that you have to breath into the before car would start. I read that story the weekend which we read about unlawful combinations in the Torah of that answers to where certain kinds of combinations in your clothing wool, and linen that acts and s are not supposed to plow together because they get hurt each other. Two weeks before that, we read that you cannot have milk and meat and so, I tell you two things that go together, drinking and driving. Rabbi reflects on the news volume two, addition two.
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