<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span style="font-size: 20px;">If we had to point out the most important or one of the most important themes of Judaism,<br>the word <i>Theocentric</i> would probably be correct. Judaism is basically G-d centered and <br>from there everything else branches out. In the portion of Haazinu, Moshe poetically warns<br>the people to remember G-d. From birth until death, everything we do centers around the<br>Creator. We praise, thank, bless, glorify, etc. etc. G-d for EVERYTHING. We do not take<br>a morsel of food or drink without making a b'rocho, both before and after. We do <br>not look at a rainbow or listen to thunder or see lightening without praising G-d. All of this<br>made me think of a true story many years ago. It was told that the President of Argentina<br>in 1960, Arturo Frondizi, met Roger Babson, famous statistician and founder of Babson College.<br> <br>In the course of their discussion, Babson asked the President why South America, with all its <br>natural resources, its mines, its rivers and waterfalls, is so far behind North America. The President<br>replied with an answer you will never forget. He said: "South America was settled by the Spanish, <br>who came in search of gold; but North America was settled by the Pilgrim Fathers, <b>who came in search of God.</b>"<br><br>What a powerful response!</span><br><br><b>"Seek ye the Lord while He may be found"</b><br>Isaiah 55:6<br><br></body></html>