When Noah prayed
You sent him a flood
and charged him with the safety
of all animal life.
What I got was rain.
I forgot to wash my shirt
so it grew mold.
In every generation
the holy men we have
stand on different levels.
We all get the hero
we deserve.
On behalf of mold
— and on behalf of my wife,
who loves when I do laundry —
I will try
to be worthy.
We will always remember this week and in the future, our grandchildren will ask us what we did and where we were.
Maimonides understood that we must live and face the realities of this non-Messianic era we live in – including the grim realities of war.
Israel is effectively telling the mullahs that their attempts to terrorize Israelis with their genocidal threats will no longer be tolerated; Israel isn’t just fighting against a nuclear bomb — it’s fighting against the human bomb of emotional terror.
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