Hanukkah Food For Thought:

[bigjimsjazz]

"In elevating to a level of demiworship people with big bucks, we have been destroying the values of our future generation. We need a total rethinking of who the heroes are, who the role models are, who we should be honoring."
RABBI BENJAMIN BLECH, professor of philosophy of law at Yeshiva University, on the downfall of disgraced financier Bernard

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[graene]

Our rabbi had the same point to his dvar torah Friday. He also reminded us of the Talmudic ruling that saying the Succot bracha with a stolen lulav doesn't count as performing the mitzvah, but I've forgotten the tie-in that caused that to stick in my mind.

I Hear Ya:

[bigjimsjazz]

Of all the things I've loved and lost I miss my mind the most.