Preaching Goes Viral

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Wow, as we look outward into this world of ours, so many things have gone on this last year that it is challenging to know where to begin or what to focus on. I’m troubled by the many hot spots around the globe where wars are taking place and where violence is perpetrated against specific groups that are ethnically, religiously or socially different from the majority. I’m upset by the increase of biased and hateful rhetoric in general and the rise in anti-Semitism in particular here in America as well as abroad. Conceptually, I view politics as the system that leads to governing, but lately it has become yet another format for hostile conflicts.  Suddenly, someone with different political views is bad or evil.  I have no interest in talking about partisan politics on the High Holy Days, we have bigger fish to fry on these most sacred of days.  And while conflict has been the rule of the day from Washington DC to Jerusalem, many of the headlines have been coming from Mother Nature who has made her presence known – wildfires out west, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in Texas and Florida; more Hurricanes devastating the Caribbean islands, earthquake in Mexico, a cyclone in Zimbabwe, an avalanche in Afghanistan, a monsoon in Sri Lanka, mudslide in Sierra Leone; flooding and landslides throughout South Asia affecting an estimated 41 million people, specifically in Bangladesh, India and Nepal.  How anyone can think that climate change isn’t a scientific fact is beyond me, but I digress.  

2022-12-13

Rabbie Mark

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