A Soulful Journey

In Moscow, G.B. Shaw met Lenin's widow, Krupshaysa.  He reported, "She had given the Soviets a piece of her mind so roundly that Stalin had threatened if she did it again he would appoint another widow for Lenin." It is not easy to accept criticism, but it makes us most human.

Bertrand Russell was lecturing in New York on the consequences of a double negative.  He said that while a double negative implied a positive, a double positive did not mean a negative.  Whereupon someone in the audience replied, "Yeah, yeah!" -   Rabbi Louis Jacobs Sweeping statement are always suspect and seldom correct   Question what you hear.