Shalom! This is Rabbi reflects on the news for August 30th. You can also read this on my blog which you be listed when you look at this video. Several in very important interesting stories that I think have a lot them implications spiritually and religiously.
First, a Chicago bears outstanding line backer lunch breaks. We held out all summer because he was upset the bears slap the franchise that got them, will only pay him $7 Million plus this year. Fanning calling one back, and so this week, he was crash this $350,000.00 sports car, and then reported later, much later to the police of the stolen even callback 10 minutes later and send on August can tell the truth the first time and owning up to my responsibility.
So, there are several important pieces to the story. First, I mention of my last one about drunk driving. How Illinois now has anew law for first time offenders. That you have the breath into your car, to get it started after you are convicted. We do not know if Lanzburg was drinking but you know, pro-athletes, 3 AM in the morning crashing $350,000.00 sports cars. A top of this, the bears let go their one of there line men, Take Johnson after gun possessions and then drunk driving arrest. interesting story.
Now, another piece to this is about too much money whenever we are paying people too much. Because some people have too much. We have Helmsley, the hotel lady, died and she is being buried in a $1.4 Million mausoleum. And then the story about the New York great gas B type estate, where there is couple had a dream but there have older family together in one estate. So, now the old men died, the widow is left into the creped main mansion and all the rest of the family courier in New Your Times are house is almost state that are all bickering and fighting.
And then he had the first lady of New York, Miss Aster who died, before she died like a 104. Her grandson was suing her son, the boy’s father, from mistreating the old lady and on top of that, they just found supposedly 7,000 Karat diamond, a size of a softball. So, somebody is going to put under the ring and say, I got the worlds biggest diamond. So, that is the question of whether too much money corrupts absolutely.
A second story was about the ranking of colleges, came out again, and of course, I took, I cut it up because my college here in Chicago was rank tied for 9ths. But was really interesting I think spiritually is, that colleges get this top ranking partly on how many people they exclude and where as Synagogue and religious communities should get their highest rating on how many people they include.
First story was Tom Freedman’s comment in New York Times or we talk about using time clutch or watches as a metaphor. I said the American watch every second where there is too long. For the She eyed watch it is like broken, you have to keep tapping it to make sure is working and Sony watch seems to be running backwards towards time when the same was in charge and I am saying about based on hascenic story in the wonderful new book that Rabbi Ed Feinstein edited. Where he tell story about the hascenic clock which only counted time one way toward redemption. So, it such a broken rule we need to have a clock to counts towards redemption that the dooms day clock
In the final piece, I want to talk about is about the apologies. You think about lands, bridge and his apology after lying to the police and you have the Senator Craig, who first confessed, plead guilty to soliciting man in a airport bathroom, and now, claims that he confessed because mine was all for a roboto we saying you in all confuse because of the relentless pressure of the Aido press looking into personal life and seems to most people this not telling the truth this time and I won around to what he did and people conquer resignation.
And this astronaut lady know it who drove a cross country remember to heard supposedly another astronaut because of the third astronaut of their both crazy about she is going to plead temporary insanity not owning up to what she did and later awhile this is interesting book by woman named Diana West that is reviewed in New York Times that is called “the death of the grown up” and basically she suggest that most the Americans from middle aged people, now with kids, are acting as children and the whole books about and the people refuse really to own up to adult responsibility. Now, went to it was a generation ago.
Thinking about that in terms of thing about the heroes we have our culture today. We have Michael Vickem, a doer situation, where he trains dogs to kill and kills the ones that do not win, and the tour Paris instead of tour de France, and you had a home run thing sold by possible drugs and all these football players. But I want a story that they found most interesting was a national their giving a new teachers dress code because of the promised the teachers coming in touring and rip beach wear see-through blouses.
Finally, a really beautiful story about Ethiopia, sending at its ambassador to recruit tourist to build up hi image. Its oldest citizen 3.3 Million year old bag-a-bones Lucy, and what I thought about that was on the contacts style of the Judaism, leading to send out for tourism and for building it is reputation but really to helping the world set it out straight. Not our oldest bag-a-bones but an old piece of paper, animals skin actually, with words on it, holy words written by God called the Torah. Shalom!
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