"Hear, O' Israel, The L-rd is our G-d, The L-rd is One."
In lights on Tel Aviv Mall in Israel.
(One more from my Cousin Betty--thank you!)
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Showing posts with label Holy. Show all posts
July 21, 2014
Shout It From The Rooftops
"Hear, O' Israel, The L-rd is our G-d, The L-rd is One."
In lights on Tel Aviv Mall in Israel.
(One more from my Cousin Betty--thank you!)
June 24, 2014
Western Wall 1000
We all sat around the dining room table in my parent's house working to put the puzzle together.
It was a pretty tough puzzle, since the pieces of a large part of the puzzle, The Wall, looked so similar.
But it was something we all rallied around, had fun with, and figured out as a family.
The only problem we couldn't readily solve, came down to the last piece of the puzzle, and almost smack center--it was missing.
A 1000 piece puzzle with only 999 pieces.
My dad, ever the innovative one, took out a marker and colored in the missing piece.
He framed the picture of the holy Kotel and hung it in their living room.
I was amazed that he took such great pride in the puzzle we worked on, since it was imperfect.
But it taught me that while nothing in life is perfect, it is our bonding together in love that creates a type of spiritual perfection.
It was also interesting to me that like Jews now-a-days put little pieces of paper ("Kvitels") with their deepest prayers into the crevices of the Western Wall, my dad put the families last piece into the representative puzzle picture of it.
Finally, the Western Wall is itself just a piece of the destroyed (twice) holy Temple ("Beit Hamikdash") that stood in Jerusalem, and one day hopefully it will be rebuilt with all the pieces through the loving bonding of the people that yearn for that special connection to the Almighty again.
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
December 14, 2013
Radiating Goodness
The first was a lady with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
She told me her story about how it was her 30-year anniversary this year. And she said she had been diagnosed with MS only one year after her wedding.
She almost cried when she told me that her husband had stayed with her all these years she was sick.
First, she had a nurse at home to care for her, and then when the demands were too much, she got into the nursing home and has been there since May, which she said wasn't a long time and that it was good there.
Talking with her, I was amazed at how good an attitude she had for someone that had suffered so much and for so long. She was also an incredibly nice person and said how lovely some of the other patients looked today and that they should eat something to keep up their strength. This lady was truly inspiring.
The second lady I met was a private nurse for one of the elderly patients in the home.
She sat at lunch between the old lady she took care of and the other woman with MS.
Yet even though she was privately paid by the elderly lady, I was amazed that when she wasn't caring for the old lady, she took the time and effort to care for the MS lady, whom she otherwise had nothing to do with.
In fact, she was alternating in feeding one and then the other. Also, making conversation with everyone else at the table asking how they were, taking pictures with her iPad mini (she found a place that sells them for only $79!) and saying how happy her patient was looking today and making her smile (even though the patient seemed unable to even speak).
It was truly amazing to see the caretaker generally caring for others, not just for the money or because it was her job, but rather because she could help and really wanted to.
I'll tell you, there are still good people out there--some almost angels. And when you find them, it is a miraculous experience. You can almost see G-d in them. Like the physical world is just an illusion, but these eternal souls are what's real--radiating goodness to every soul they touch. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
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