Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year 5783, well back then there were no Jews when everything just started, right?! But its called the Jewish New Year celebrated by Jews. My question is more global, is it the Jewish New Year or is it a Global New Year? It’s unclear what kind of year we will have, we are facing such questions, really terrible ones, existential ones. • The Belgium Ministry of Justice decided to conduct an experiment, 55 prosecutors and judges sat in the new Brussels prison for a while to test the conditions of detention and feel like prisoners. It's expected that after that, they will issue more reasonable sentences. What do you think about this? • The Sufi Mansur, Al- Hallaj, was asked, how to become free from one’s attachments? • Darwin spent a long time explaining his theory of evolution to one lord. The lord listened deeply to the scientists logical explanation and at the end, Darwin said, “So now you agree that man descended from an ape?” The lord replied, “Maybe you did, but I didn’t.” What I want to say by that is that everyone agrees that everyone is selfish, but, not me, I’m not selfish. My neighbors, but I’m giving, etc. etc. Why can’t a person look at himself and say, this is how I am. • A letter from a follower: I really want to talk about the world, the Creator, the inner state of man but when I look outside the window there is war. It really touched me. How can a person in such a situation think about the world, the Creator, connection, when there is war all around? • Nina writes: “The cat that lives in my house gave birth to kittens and a few days later, she killed them herself. Tell me please, is this a natural phenomenon? If so, what is its root, is this a consequence of our terrible behavior?”
Sep 22, 20221082 Views