A Soulful Journey

"Dad, how do they do gene splicing?" Shrugging, the father said, "I don't know." "Dad, why do we believe in God?" "I do not know." "Who do you think would make the best president?" "I do not know." "Dad, I hope you don't mind me asking you all these questions." "Of course not son, how else will you learn anything?" -Rabbi Shammai Kanter Pay attention to what comes out of your mouth.

"When Hitler started the extermination campaign, he didn't begin with the Jews. He went for the mentally subnormal, saying it would be much kinder to give them a gentle, easy death. Maybe with amniocentesis we are trying to spare the health services with the high cost of dealing with the handicap, and cloaking it with an air of public respectability." - Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in "The Jewish Chronicle,"  May 1982. It is critical that we question what we see, hear, and read. There is a reason why God gave us a searching mind . Question the motives of politicians. Question the media. Take nothing for granted. You have a mind capable of ascertaining truth and do not need anyone to convince you of it.

"A fan club is a group of people who remind an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself." ~ Unknown Jewish tradition demands validation from us.  That is to say, we are always supposed to question our words and actions to determine if they are in consonance with what God wants.  Believing that we are right is not good enough.