A Soulful Journey

It is forbidden for a Jew to say that he is an idolater so that they will not kill him. But it is permitted to change one’s clothing so that they would not recognize him as a Jew in time of persecution, so long as he does not say he’s a Gentile.  - Shulchan Aruch, Hilchot Avodah Zarah Such is the history of our people that such considerations are given thought. 

A seventh grader was sitting around the dinner table, chatting with his family when suddenly he said: “I am glad I sit in the back of the bus.”   “Why?” asked his parents. “Because the driver does not see what I am doing….Just kidding mom!   Just kidding, dad!” No matter how far we may try to hide, slouching way down in this bus called life, God always sees what we are doing. -Ira Fortna of Bart

Two Jews, Steinberg and Goldberg, went into law practice together.  Business was so bad that they decided to change their names, O'Reilly and O'Reilly.  After that, business picked up. One day a customer walked in and asked to speak to O'Reilly. "Which one do you want?" asked the secretary.  "Goldberg or Steinberg?"

There is a Hasidic story of a child who complains in the course of playing “hide and seek” that his playmates have forgotten him.  He cries out, “God also hides Himself, and nobody comes to find Him either.”   -Andre Neher