Bang The Drum Slowly

Better done than perfect. So many perfect ideas were never done, while meanwhile, others jumped and did them imperfectly. Such an important idea to keep in mind. Other than G-d, I don't think perfect exists.

Ellul thought: When Nechamah Liebowitz was a little girl she brought her father his slippers and said that she was being extra good because it was the days between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. Her father replied that he was more concerned with how she behaved between Yom Kippur and Ros HaShanah! (as told in Yael Unterman's Nechama Leibowitz: Teacher and Bible Scholar).

I'm still thinking about water. A friend just told me that the earth is 70 percent water and that people are also seventy percent water. Dovid HaMelech says that the land is placed upon the waters. It's like the earth is a giant ball of water with little pieces of land on top of it. It's fascinating that we're told about land being created, but not water. In the beginning there was G-d and water.

Helen H. Perlman, a prominent social worker, wrote, "Where there's friction there's warmth." I like that.

It's interesting how you read a book, hear an idea, meet a person, and form an impression - you get a vibe. In her introduction to her biography of Nechama, Yael Unterman says that she was never a student of Nechama directly. But she crossed paths with her on a few occasions and before putting out the book came across an old note in which she wrote to herself, "I like Nechama Leibowitz. She's so straight."

Time comes to show faith by lying down,

closing your eyes,

and letting Gd take you for the night.

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It is not easy to take this trip,

it's scary,

but we must understand G-d is in this place.

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"Real life" morphs into dreams

and not a moment is wasted

as we live out our undercurrents.

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Everyone dreams,

like everyone lives,

but ah - how different are

our dreams and our lives.

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Did I behave kindly today?

I hope so

zzzzzzzzzzz.