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FROM THE RABBI

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It was supposed to be Spring last month, but we had snow up UndeaEJeWiZh PEN},- SS
through the writing of these thoughts. I had gotten so tired of winter that l {$335,392 ay we
met the snow with fierce defiance. I shook my fist in the air, as if to say, "Be anothétzvath f
cursed, you foul snow!" Just as I was at the point of absolute resentment, Tiling ”es
standing there in the wet cold, a snow flake landed on my nose. It tickled 2A1 onysyeuewte
and made me smirk. I went to brush it off and then realized that before I ommi ee gems
could, it had melted and l realized that I had lost the chance to appreciate it. Sisterhood News _ 4

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In Just an instant, I had gone from anger to Silliness to melancholy. In MaZaITOV
one instant, I had experienced all three emotions and, as I got into the \éVaystoviurrfokrt Elem Grar
car, the entire moment went by almost as if it had never happened. The 0° '8 e e 8 Ge
psalmist teaches that 1,000 years is but a watch in the night for God, and Weetenry fihanaflesmber ?
the span of our lives is but a blink of God's eye. In God's eternity, I am but Cfnzzbiceiw
an eye twitch, but God's eye twitch is my entire lifespan. That said, I wasted Refueh Shlemah

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an entire lifespan being angry over snow, and it took another whole lifetime
to recover from that anger. Now, I do not know how to measure the eye Egfigl%:tr§hhgf:??Parsha
twitch of a being. I cannot even begin to define, but I do know that we Sim Shalom New:
waste (relevantly speaking) inordinate amount of time being upset over , ,

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matters that are themselves fleeting (again relevantly speaking). It takes an cum News
equal or greater amount of time to restore from that anger, and in the Preschool News
process, life passes us by. Yahrzen

As we enter the month of Nisan (the first month on the Jewish _ ,

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calendar, we need to make a great resolve to spend less time wasting our Death Nome
lives on the matters that only set us back. Figure out what these things are
in your life, make the new year resolution, and join in the celebration of

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