Well - as for beds... I am almost there... A deal for the one I have been trying seems good and changes to the one I have selected likely -- only free frame and maybe a new bed... and haul away necessary (may be the law)... To be "settled" tomorrow ... ahhh... choices!!!!
Then there was my thinking about what if I am asked to help at HH Services? What might I say ??? To all at the Redwood gathering and/or on the Bimah ... during evenings or at Mincha on YK? I might say -- It is really an honor and pleasure to be here. I thank the Board and many people in the Davis Jewish community who have warmly asked me to return. SO -- here I am ... serving as I did for more than 30 years. Where have I been? Where am I? You may ask ... Basically I have prayed and served and been welcomed at a Conservative synagogue in Walnut Creek. I hope in the years I was there -- some shared with Bet Haverim and some only there ... I have learned things and considered things that I can share here and be of help to people seeking the spiritual, the intellectual, the communal. I have never left Kol Yisrael. I may be more part of Kol Yisrael for being away for a while... from this specific community. The point is ... Jews are here and there and everywhere and through all time. We are a people, we are family, we have a geographic space - Israel, we have history, we have G-d. YES - I said G-d... and though people of the 20th and 21st century may not think about G-d the reality is, in my opinion, that G-d was, is, and will be what our hearts and minds must wrestle with. As some of you know === Israel is a word that means One Who Wrestles With G-d.... Sometimes G-d may win. Sometimes G-d may not seem to win... BUT - again in my opinion - the struggle to relate to G-d or to relate to The Good...is paramount in all our lives. I strongly and firmly believe that all people want to be good. The question always will be - What is the Good... Or What is G-d? Or Who is good? Who is G-d. O my or OOOOO....!!!!
Sadly - I had some other thoughts and things to express earlier today when I could not write them down... and maybe they are lost forever... Or maybe they will come back to me... IN any case... let me lead us here in the Redwood Grove in the four affirmations taught by the 18th century modern rabbi - Rabbi Nachman of Beslov -- who is buried in the sister city of Davis, CA -- in Uman, Ukraine...
Affirm Your Faith in Yourself
Or perhaps say: may I come to believe I am very important in G-d's eyes...
====thats all folks... for today==========
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