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
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