Shabbat

 

Actually I had a good friend named Ida, a neighbor-friend -

and Armenian whose family escaped the Turkish murders in the 1900's.

 

Bless her soul - from her and her family and Armenian friends,

 I learned one part of the Noah's Ark story:

that even if you are living simply or creating beauty -

cruel hating people are creating horrific violence - anywhere allowed!

 

Another part of the story:

Mount Ararat is where the Ark landed ,

and there are those that believe they found some of the beamsof that SHIP high up in the Mountains!

 

So too ALL the Torah stories are not really removed from reality - 

they just depict a PART of the STORY - and LESSONS for ALL to learn.

 

And what about the COLLAPSE of the FACEBOOK and its "story "?

This week we learned how a single company can MANIPULATE -

AND FAIL US ALL!

(And we don't even know,

 what part of those billion users' lives it controls!)

 

Need a ferry ? An Ark? Umbrellas dont work in hurricanes.

 

MAYBE WE ALL NEED TO SPEND MORE TIME LOOKING AT

THE GOOD BOOK!

Reading between the Armenia story, the Canaanite story, 

the AFGHANISTAN story -

 

and BUILDING AGAIN the MIRACLE of all the JEWISH STORIES

that so many ignore or take for granted?

 

This is a GOOD WEEK TO START

 

Shabbat Shalom

 

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz