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B"H Chapter: Blood Is Thicker than Water I wonder if the people of Seattle would accept renaming their city to "See Little Sunshine," only thirty days a year not cloudy. It'd been a long ride through dark dreary tunnels "filled with self - doubt" that accompanied the length of a visit to my mo m in Seelittle Sunshine. I jetted back to my venue in Safrascity. Dear diary, I hope to hook up with my once best friend, from Los Angeles; he's a star character in the episodes of Reaching Infinity. I arranged a visit with my first cousin with whom had visited some years earlier at an eightieth birthday party for my mo m. We were a family of 13 first cousins of the grandparents ' generation, and as was once co mmon to the human race, we lived our interrelationships. The distance between Tradition and the future is the eyeball of the abyss It occurs that Judaism has faced a dile mma throughout the generations. On the one hand, it is a ritual and conduct code for individual, fa mily, and community. On the other hand, I has judicial authority to inveigh corporal measures to punish immora l tendencies. It doesn't see m that a procedure of animal sacrifices can be resumed. Those who loyal to the religious statutes believe their unwillingness to co mpro mise is a precondition of their observance of the Torah. I disagree with that attitude, though o n the political spectrum I'm so far out beyond the rightist extreme that I am at the outset of the left fanaticis m. I only find refuge within the improvement of my character, and if not that, at least a detachment from reality. "Don't worry, be happy." If you can't be happy, act crazy, it 's guaranteed to get a laugh fro m those who notice you acting that way. The reader may be familiar wit h my philosophy that that itself adapted fro m the Pirke Avos, if you wish to be heard, learn to listen. There's this sorry state of affairs in 2017 in a small city in the Negev Desert. This city was built as a secular refuge; let's say for argument sake - by people who established their homes at a great distance from the center of the country, a cultural desert. One of the three areas of concern in my dying days pertains to the demographic ra mifications enveloping this heretofore "small speck of Jewish inha bitance" amongst the sands upon the neighboring lands, a Bedouin metropolis. So me years after its inception this town modified their stand to accept the infusion o f a Chassidic group of residents, that has become a mini -metropolis 50