There is a moral to these stories, which is so obvious. They all cut it fine. I see it with my kids. When we used to visit for shabbat, there was always drama. My wife & I would get there early, play with the kids, get dressed, and every one is putsing around watching the clock. Timing things to the minute. It takes one kid to be too long in the shower, a kid forgets where his shoes are, this one can't find a shirt, it drove me meshuga. In the end we rushed to shul always late arriving 10 minutes into mincha. So I decided to take one of the boys in hand, told him to get everything ready, shine his shoes, lay out his clothes and shower first, this done I said we need to talk, lets go to shul early, we strolled to shul, had a lovely conversation, saw people going to shul, took our seats and men came over to say Hi. My grandson was a little surprised how many men I knew and enjoyed listening to the banter & began to join in. After a few weeks another grandson joined us, it was the best time, walking at a steady pace chatting & not being late. Why do families leave everything to the last minute. Most men now seem to take friday off, run a few errands, nosh all day, and in general schlapp out friday till they are late for shul. The moral is, shabbat comes every week, its the same routine, plan prepare and enjoy the walk to shul with the kids, & don't make zeida have to run to keep up to get to shul 10 minutes late.
We are afraid of Romanian/Russian soldiers, Arabic soldiers, and Chinese Hindus. They are pretending japanese soldiers' identities and religious jobs. I hate this. Jewish American Soldier you do not go to Eastern Europe. Arabic soldiers are killing Romanian/Russian soldiers, Arabic soldiers, and Chinese Hindus in Ukraine.
I was with The Flushing Community Vol Ambulance Corp back in the mid 80’s Through the 90’s until I moved to Long Island where I Joined the Fire Dept, I enjoyed what I did as a Driver/ EMT, Working along side with NYC-EMS, Flushing & Booth Paramedics and Hatzolah I learned a lot and made good friends
The WORD is the bread of life and through JUDAISM and CHRISTIANITY it has lots and lots and lots of leaven in it; Messiah comes when you take the sin out of the WORD and eat it unleavened:
