[Avodah] The Storm and Jonah Final Thought for the עשרת ימי תשובה

[cantorwolberg at cox.net]

I once read the following by an anonymous author:

It always takes a storm to call man back to his duties. It takes
a storm of war to call us back to our duties of peace. It takes
a storm of crime and juvenile delinquency to make us realize
that we have failed our youth. It takes a horrible conflagration
to make us revise our fire laws. It takes a horrible fatal car crash
to make us address the problem of drinking and driving. It takes
a horrible act of terrorism to increase our Homeland Security. I 
can go on and on but the bottom line is that a storm wakes us 
up and calls us back to our duty.

Finally, our lives are filled with unread books, broken promises,
unkept resolutions, unanswered letters and emails and even more
important, neglected friendships and harsh words to those we love
and those we don't love. It has been said this is due to our running
away from our duties (great or small) -- ultimately, running away
from the Almighty. We are all little Jonahs.
גמר טוב 


Some people are so openminded that their brains fall out  
Anonymous

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