Rabbi Reflects on the Role of the Appendix

New York Ideas of 2007: Rabbi reflects

Shalom! In the New York Times magazine ideas of the year issue for the beginning of December. Another article that caught my attention was about appendix. Now, most people have always thought with modern signs, the appendix is a useless tripled organ as the paper said. In this week a girl was in the ocean and her appendix ruptured and that maybe ht paper said dramatically ship her 500miles to save her life.

So why would God make an organ that it is completely uses? Maybe it is ancient times that have some function. Well, it is just this year that it turns out, Doctor finally figure ot that the appendix is not a useless tripled organ. They actually serve a very useful function. It was in computer terms the rebut system. It stored healthy bacteria is that when our stomach are all mess up and unhealthy in disease, this is where the healthy bacteria was tore so we could rebut our stomach to stay the other kind of bacteria we needed.

Fascinated, now I am on a doctor. So what we have to do with Judaism and Rabbinic reflections? Ask you self in the last hundred years, we consider to be useless trebled Jewish traditions was the rituals were toss out, only now to recover. Now, think about the reformer of the 200 year ago which begin on the beginning of the 19 century and they got rid of that like every ritual thing there is no concept of Mitzvah, Koshur Judaism believe in the world to come, resurrection and now they are talking about Koshur again and talking about Mitzvah again. And you see door revises the prayer Mihayami team revival of the dead. Hebrew languages back. They got rid of Bimitzvah for awhile Hitzbak sp so much of the basic rituals and laws and traditions of Judaism which were chop by American Jewish that are not coming back recent survey out this week. This is the middle of December 2007, it says that young reform Jewish are keeping to causer way more presented Chaise then older reform Jews.

Now, it is not too much (foreign language), but the woman who practice of Jewish people. We are going to be very careful before you discard rituals even if they do not seem to make sense of the time, because maybe you interpreted them or maybe you find out soon that they are actually mean a lot.

Now, this is mean at all rituals that were started with we still have there are many Judaism change a lot and everything else has. But, I think it is a very interesting lesson about be careful of the traditions handed to you by your ancestors, which is a line from the Talmud. They give a benefit of the doubt to tradition to the wisdom of the people that went before us, before that we assume that it is useless we trebled them to be chop.

I think that is a very interesting a metaphor to use the appendix for because it is possibly the rebuts system to make Judaism research it. Shalom!


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