<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 19px;" class="">Last week God created the world. This week <br class="">(some 1,656 years later), God destroys the world.<br class="">Interestingly, the Baal Hatanya (Shneur Zalman of Liadi)<br class="">writes that the flood has never ended and continues until<br class="">this very day. We are all subject to the floods in life. We <br class="">are flooded with all sorts of problems, issues, conflicts,<br class="">etc. — some more, some less. The world is still chaotic<br class="">but when we do our part to minimize our personal floods,<br class="">we help to minimize the floods of the world. </span><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 19px;" class=""><i class="">The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution<br class="">of democracy.</i></span><br class=""><b class="">Theodore White (American political journalist and historian)</b></body></html>