Tikkun Olam

When you think about it, we Jews have wonderful holidays, celebrating goodness, giving thanks to G-d for...everything.  And at this time of year, we Jews are supposed, during our High Holidays,  to do much introspection on our moral selves, our character, and our lives.  We are supposed to make serious efforts to change for the better.  Well, have we? Have we consciously worked on it? Did you become a better person than you were last year? Have I? Dennis Prager has a very interesting take on why most of us have trouble doing that .  He has come up with 13 reasons - stumbling blocks, if you will - preventing us from become morally and ethically better human beings.  The one that surprised me was Number One: we don't really want to be good people.  Read the first four reasons below.  Then click on the link, and read the rest.  As someone said in a song (see previous post), it ain't gonna be so easy . 1. Most people don't particularly w...

I am posting a public 'asking for a mechilah' post two days before Yom Kippur (The Jewish Day of Atonement); if in the past year I have verbally or virtually--to my fellow bloggers and readers whom I know personally and see in my community, and to those I know from your blogs and comments--said or done anything to insult or hurt you in any way, I am asking for forgiveness. Wishing you a meaningful Shabbat Shuvah, and a meaningful fast on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), and may it pass fast.