A Soulful Journey

  "When a blind man was asked by a sympathetic woman, "Doesn't being blind rather color your life?" he answered, "Yes, but Thank God. I can choose the color."   Rabbi Sidney Greenberg We are all blind in some fashion, we see the world not as it is but as we want to perceive it.   Don't like the view?  Change the way you see it. 

W here can holiness be found? There is holiness when we strive to be true to the best we know.  - Sidney Greenberg

We are partners in redemption.  As the Tanakh states, "Arise with the help of the people."  That is to say redemption is not passive, it requires our participation.  -Rabbi Sidney Greenberg

Rabbi Sidney Greenberg used to tell the story of a town hall meeting where the discussion centered on the use of a new electric chair for the condemned.   One man stood up and shouted, “Hanging was good enough for my father.   It’s good enough for me!” From birth we move and grow.   What was good enough for daddy requires personal analysis.     It may be good enough for us.   Or not.    

"Do not cast us away into old age." Nobody wants to get old. Rabbi Sidney Greenberg made a comment on this verse that when a person visits a friend in the hospital they may remark, "Boy, has she aged!" Even though the patient may look bedraggled Greenberg warns us to to slot people into the old age category based on how we look.  Such thinking brings us lower than we already feel. Our words have a dramatic effect.