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<h2 class='date-header'><span>Monday, September 4, 2017</span></h2>

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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It&#8217;s reassuring to think that there&#8217;s rhyme and reason in the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We do the right thing and good things happen. &nbsp;You study and you do you well. &nbsp; You work hard and you make a good living. &nbsp;That&#8217;s reassuring. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Of course we know it doesn&#8217;t always work that way. &nbsp;It's not news that the world is often a mess. &nbsp;We&#8217;ve always struggled with &#8211; on the one hand, wanting there to be rhyme and reason and order and on the other hand, realizing that often there is not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are two mitzvot in the Torah the reward for which is a long life. &nbsp;If you honor your parents you&#8217;re promised a long life. &nbsp;If you take eggs from a nest and before taking them you shoo away the mother bird, perhaps so she doesn&#8217;t have to witness the removal of the eggs, you&#8217;re promised a long life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A father says to his son, please climb that tree over there and bring me the eggs that are in the nest which is one of the branches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The son listens to his father. &nbsp;He gets a ladder. &nbsp;He climbs the tree. &nbsp;He sees that a bird is hovering over the eggs in the nest. &nbsp;He shoos the bird away and takes the eggs. &nbsp;On his way down he slips, falling off the ladder and onto the ground. &nbsp;And doesn&#8217;t survive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The rabbi watching the scene knows full well that the boy performed both of the mitzvot the reward for which is long life. &nbsp;He honored his father. &nbsp;He sent away the bird. &nbsp;And look what happened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The rabbi, whose name was Elisha ben Abuya, had a crisis of faith. &nbsp;Perhaps he felt the dissonance between things as they are supposed to be and things as they are. &nbsp;Perhaps he felt that this tradition was worthless if the Torah&#8217;s basic promises were not upheld. &nbsp;Ultimately he turned his back on Jewish tradition. &nbsp;We don&#8217;t know what led up to it, but this moment for him was the breaking point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you live in the world you see numerous examples of things not quite turning out the way we imagine they should, the way we are taught that they will. &nbsp;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week we have been focused on the tragic storms and flooding in Texas. &nbsp;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As of yesterday 45 deaths were reported. &nbsp;100s of thousands have been displaced. &nbsp;Most people aren&#8217;t perfect saints or perfect sinners. &nbsp;But let&#8217;s assume that the most of the millions of residents of the Houston area are doing their best &#8211; going to school, earning a living, maintaining professional and personal relationships as best they can &#8211; and then, over a short period of time, they find themselves in this horrible situation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thinking &#8211; oh my God, I didn&#8217;t expect this. &nbsp;Or maybe - I don&#8217;t deserve this. &nbsp;Will I be ok? &nbsp;Will my loved ones be ok?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The NY Times showed a map identifying the locations of emergency calls that were made to local hotlines and brief summaries of those calls. &nbsp;&#8220;Water getting higher.&#8221; &nbsp;&#8220;No place to go.&#8221; &nbsp;&#8220;Don&#8217;t know what to do.&#8221; &nbsp;&#8220;Not sure how much time I have left.&#8221; &nbsp;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The gap between life as it should be and life as it is, is often larger than we can handle. &nbsp;What does this mean for the people in Texas? &nbsp;What does it mean for us? &nbsp;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rosh Hashanah is two weeks away. &nbsp;What better time for us to recognize a very important truth when it comes to our connection to reality. &nbsp;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We stand in the gap. &nbsp;We stand in the gap between life as we think it should be and life as it actually is. &nbsp;Our actions can help bridge the gap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Regarding Hurricane Harvey, we can reach out. &nbsp;We can send money. &nbsp;We can send goods. &nbsp;UJA has set up a <a href="https://www.ujafedny.org/hurricane-harvey-relief-fund/">relief fund</a> that I informed the congregation about through email. &nbsp;Our congregation is collecting cleaning supplies, personal hygiene products, first aid supplies, gift cards, non-perishable food, baby products, flashlights, batteries, blankets and toiletries that will be sent to needy families in the Houston area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We will, in two weeks, be reciting the prayer <i>unetane tokef</i> &#8211; on Rosh Hashanah it is written and on Yom Kippur it is sealed: &nbsp;מי יחיה ומי ימות <i>mi yi<u>h</u>yeh umi yamut&nbsp;</i>Who will live and who will die. &nbsp;Who by fire and who by water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There was a trend, during the late 70&#8217;s when I was a teenager, to reinterpret, in metaphorical ways, prayers that were deemed to be too literal and too physical.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I would hear the following kinds of translations of parts of <i>unetane tokef:</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Who will be swept up in the fire of passion. &nbsp;Who will be overwhelmed by the flood of indifference. &nbsp;Or whatever. &nbsp;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And I&#8217;m all for metaphor, in its proper place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We still suffer from real fires and real floods and real swords. When we "upgrade" to metaphors, it sometimes suggests that we think we&#8217;re beyond the vulnerability, that we don&#8217;t have to deal with real fire, real water, real swords. &nbsp;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And we do. &nbsp;Despite many of the advances of modern life, we are still, in many ways, quite vulnerable. &nbsp;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sadly the gap between life as we think it should be and life as it is, is just as real, just as material, as it always was. &nbsp;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We stand in that gap. &nbsp;When we send funds, or collect and send goods. &nbsp;When we reach out in real ways to the people who need our help, whoever and wherever they might be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We stand in that gap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Unetaneh tokef</i> is a meditation on the interplay between the stuff that happens and what we can do about it. &nbsp;In that respect, it&#8217;s a pretty good roadmap for life. &nbsp;All kinds of things happen that we cannot control.&nbsp;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But our Teshuva/self-reflection, our te&#8217;fila/prayer and our tzedaka/acts of righteousness can help bridge the gap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You don&#8217;t think your family deserves a particular crisis that you're facing, but here it is. &nbsp;What are you going to do about it? &nbsp;What are others who care about you, or others who may not even know you but just want to do the right thing, going to do about it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Things don&#8217;t go the way we hope. &nbsp;They don&#8217;t go the way we were promised. &nbsp;There isn&#8217;t a whole lot of rhyme or reason to much of what we witness and experience first-hand. &nbsp;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The gap between what we believe we deserve and what we get can be considerable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let&#8217;s have the decency and the courage to stand in the gap for others. &nbsp;Some day, if they haven&#8217;t already, others may stand in the gap for us.</span><br />
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