Shalom! Rabbi reflects in a News number 5. Just some pieces I use into my High Holiday sermons of the reflections on the news. Alaska, there was $398 million propose tunnel that was called the “Bridge to Nowhere”. Because it really did not serve much it purpose would cost nearly $400 million. The senate finally canceled the funding for it and they called pork barrel politics.
Well, of course eating pork is a bridge to nowhere, stop eating pork that is my take on that. Second of all, the phenomenal story of Alex the Parrot, who of 30 years is train by Dr. Pepperburg of Brandeis University with the idea of this parrot might actually think. The parrot past away this last week and the final words of the night before the parrot died, Alex died said; “Be good, see you tomorrow. I love you”. Which I think is the key the Jewish view of the “Afterlife” in Yeasker(ph).
“Be good”, we should use the memory of our ancestor to inspires us to good behavior. “See you tomorrow”, reflects the idea of Judaism that the soldier on this earth is brief and that they long term soldier in internal life in the world to come and so we will brought together again. And finally, “I love you”, the key idea of the deep feeling we had for our love ones. So, thank you for Alex the Parrot for that legacy.
Also, talk about how Volvo has a new a button you can push on a thing you hold in your pocket, which can tell you whether you human being is in your car. That is for safety purposes to see if there any intruders. I use to see if there actually human being in the car. That sometimes a lot of people drive and eventhough there is a driver in there, they might not be a human heart in sermon about the importance of heart.
Talk about the importance of small things. There was story that the huge Boston Tunnels collapse over the summer which killed someone and stop traffic for Boston for many hours and the big tunnels turn out was a simply little plastic device in old glue that use improperly. How little things actually cause huge problems and so, we should think about what we say and what we do even the little things, the little annoyances that we do.
And finally, Minneapolis Twin City Bridge that fell and they are blaming it now on the lack of Jewish infrastructure and the Jewish infrastructure in the lack of support of the infrastructure. I think we can use to understand the important Jewish infrastructures, Jewish education, and Jewish learning. So, those are just some items of Rabbi reflections on the news and I think are important messages.
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