My Take on the News

My Take on the News
1.Personal effects might lead to accidental legacy-Chicago Tribune
Amy Dickinson | Ask Amy:
August 25, 2007
Dear Amy: Recently I was cleaning up around my place when it occurred to me that I have certain personal belongings that I might not readily like others to know that I have.

I realize that life is fleeting, that death might happen at any moment. I could get hit by a car or struck by lightning. What happens when someone dies unexpectedly and those belongings that one would normally hide become discovered (e.g. that stack of Hustlers; that love letter to someone who isn't your spouse in the desk; that baggy of cocaine hidden in the bookshelf)?How do these discoveries by those family, friends and significant others clearing your personal belongings after you are gone change the way they think of you or are going to remember you?

What steps can be taken by the living to minimize this, beyond the obvious one to not possess anything that one might think would upset those who may discover it later?

Rabbi Reflects-don't have things that you are ashmaned people might find. The "real" you and the presented you should be as "close" as possible. The High Holidays are an effort to move the two closer together.

2. New law Illinois first time drunk driving offenders now have to install machines to breathe into before car will start.
In 2006, Illinois recorded almost 500 deaths from alcohol-related crashes, according to information from the Illinois Department of Transportation. Supporters of the new law hope it will decrease that number, citing a 12 percent drop in alcohol-related fatalities in New Mexico after that state implemented a similar law in 2005.

Rabbi Reflects-parasha Ki Teze has many example of improper mixtures, ie; ox and ass plowing together, mixing linen and wool, -here is a contemporary forbidden mixture-drinking and driving


3. Tribune editorial declared a unilateral end of summer because we are all sick of the constant rain, heat and humidity. Ok, I declare a unilateral end of hate, intolerance, injustice.

4. Mrs Crick died this week. She was the wife of the co-discoverer of DNA> She was the one who drew the famous drawing of DNA that we know. DNA proved-we are all alike.
One ADAM concept=-the Bible begins with one guy so, as our ancient Sages taught, no one can say, my father is greater than your father.

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