A Soulful Journey

Old Noah was saved from dehydration By an ark that provided flotation So the moral is plain, In this tale of rain: You be righteous in your generation.  - Cantor Harry Gelman

I have a question for you,  to think about, to answer and to write down. It's this:  The dove left the protected Ark  and Jonah, left the harbor to go to Nineveh.  What do they have in common, in your opinion, apart from a name a mission over water? Storms? And loneliness?  What’s your opinion of loneliness?  Imagine them in their loneliness. A myriad people in the rising water  and the children who reached the peak of Ararat  swollen with water?  And as for that man Jonah,  a person who regretted that an entire city was not destroyed after you prophesied what he had to do…I’m sorry I’ve answered your question with a question. I’ve also gone from the abstract to the simple, Perhaps plural-what can I do, I am that kind of Jew.  –  John Donne G ood questions are always better  than  good answers.  It intimates a hungry, yearning  mind.

The story is told of the sudden warning of an immanent ten foot flood which would shortly envelop the entire earth.  Immediately, the Pope issued a decree for all "Christian souls" to start praying for a  miracle.  While the Christians occupied themselves with getting God's attention, the Jews started to learn how to live under water. Do not depend on miracles.

"It's like the old story of the guy whose only claim to fame was having lived through the Johnstown, Pa. flood.  When he died and went to heaven, he was asked if he had any last wishes.  He said, "I'd like to tell the story of the Johnstown flood just one more time."  God said, "Your wish is granted.  But remember, you'll have Noah in your audience."  - Erma Bombeck

Nixon, Brezhnev and Golda Meir were sitting together on a plane when God announced to them that a worldwide flood would begin in three days to punish mankind for its sinfulness.   He advised the three leaders to return to their respective countries immediately. Nixon rushed to Washington and made a nationwide television broadcast in which he announced that the world would end in three days.   F or the next three days, he ordered, America’s capitalists would not have to contend with any government controls; they were permitted to make all the money that they wanted. Brezhnev, on the other hand, told the people that inasmuch as there were only three days left, they would assume the final stage of Communism had been reached, and they were given permission to drink unlimited vodka. Golda Meir optimistically went before the Knesset to advise the parliamentarians that there were only three days left for government leaders to come up with a feasible plan to make...