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The Monday Morning Memo

When the founder of Hasidic Judaism, the great Rabbi Israel Shem Tov, saw a misfortune threatening the Jews, it was his custom to go into a certain part of the forest to meditate. There he would light a fire, say a special prayer, and the miracle would be accomplished and the misfortune averted.

Later, when his disciple, the celebrated Maggid of Mezritch, had occasion, for the same reason, to intercede with heaven, he would go to the same place in the forest, and say “Master of the universe, Listen! I do not know how to light the fire, but I am still able to say the prayer,” and again the miracle would be accomplished.

Still later, Rabbi Moshe-leib of Sasov, in order to save his people once more, would go into the forest and say “I do not know how to light the fire. I do not know the prayer, but I know the place and this must be sufficient.” It was sufficient, and the miracle was accomplished.

Then it fell to Rabbi Israel of Rizhin to overcome misfortune. Sitting in his arm chair, his head in his hands, he spoke to God: “I am unable to light the fire, and I do not know the prayer, and I cannot even find the place in the forest. All I can do is tell the story, and this must be sufficient.”

And it was sufficient.

For God made man because He loves stories.

[Sent to us by alert rabbit-holer Manley Miller]

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“Thinking about Rush Limbaugh and how, now that he’s dead, you never, ever hear about him. No one ever mentions anything he did.

Because what he did had no value. It contributed nothing worthwhile to the culture. Nothing of lasting value.

He just made anger. Every day. Rising, blooming, & fading like a fart. Then he died & was instantly replaced by a fleet of little replicas, farting fake fury five days a week. Creating nothing of interest or artistic value to anyone.

Seriously, what an awful way to make a living.”

- Dana Gould (Even if you don't agree with him, you have to agree that he writes artistically.)

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