Play It Again, Sam!

Teaching your children or whoever else you can positively influence about Judaism, not believing in ghosts and making them gods, reading Torah everyday, showing lovingkindness and selflessness to your fellow, your neighbor, doing mitzvoth, following your dreams, never giving up. Snow melts and seasons change, but the lesson is to hold fast onto Adonai and not letting that change, obeying the Commandments, helping others and not participating in wars and activities influenced by the impure. These are activities that must reach everyone's agenda. Reading and learning, but also teaching, also performing righteous actions. There is an "also" after it all--obsessive-compulsiveness is just a way of getting everything to be perfect. We need to "Play it again, Sam." We need to study Torah again, and pray again, the same prayers day after day, the same blessings, day after day. It is never completed--there is always a newborn baby, always another day, another sunrise/sunset. We keep plugging along and keep trying. If we are having trouble walking, we do not stop walking, we walk again and again, we perfect it and even learn to dance. If we learn to dance, we even become a professional dancer!   Bottom line is that The Study of Torah is all about IMPROVEMENT. We do not make the same mistakes, we do not offend someone again and again, we do not give up trying to be righteous. We are not all created equal and we are not all equals. There are some who are born with an advantage and there are some who have a healthier spirit than others. It is up to these people to teach and care for the disadvantaged so they too can have health and an advantage. So in this way we all end up as people who have a purpose in life, a calling. We all need to do our best, to do tikkun olam and fight for everyone to have the realizations of their dreams so we have a better world.