Posted by: admin in faith
From a Torah perspective, we believe in the heavenly creatures called angels, even though they are invisible to human perception. Yet once in a while, angels wear human faces.
I’m not talking about manifestations; I’m talking about selfless people working for the benefit of others. Car Angel is one such group. They are a nonprofit company that has given away over 2.4 million helpful videos to needy kids and teens so far, and they want to keep it going.
How do they accomplish this? By accepting car donations, primarily, and using the proceeds from those donations to make the videos and give them away.
It may sound a bit strange, but it’s a unique concept and sometimes that can spur folks on to rise above the self-obsessions of the Christian celebration of Christmas and really think of someone else for a change.
Shalom, Car Angel. Keep up the good work.
Posted by: admin in Torah
OK, so Hanukkah is not the biggest or most important of the festivals on the Adonai-ordained Jewish calendar; but is any feast really “minor” when it comes to the L-rd’s commands?
Hanukkah’s symbolism for staying steadfast to the commands of G-d certainly do not make it seem “minor.” Minor would be a holiday in which some local company decides to honor everyone on their workforce who owns an IWC watch; sure, it might be fun for that select few, but it’s nothing that’s going to spread globally.
Yet when Adonai speaks, his people ought to listen, generally speaking. The prayer at the lighting of the Hanukkah candles says it all: we do this because we’re commanded to by Adonai himself. How can such a thing be minor?
I’ll tell you what’s minor. (As well as petty, stupid and offensive.)
Minor is the idiots who are trying to convince Jews and messianics worldwide that somehow, by lighting one less Hanukkah candle this season, we can all “save the planet.” The folks urging this are the same hippie-liberal, good-time, rock-n-roll losers who will expend as much CO2 jetting Algore zittoheads into Bali to talk about how to cure global warming as 20,000 automobiles release in a year’s worth of driving.
Maybe when liberal zittoheads stop acting like complete hypocrites, someone might take the time to at least listen to their Chicen Little rantings. Whether they do or don’t, however, the sky is not falling until Adonai decides to bring the whole she-bang crashing in; and once he does, lighting one Hanukkah candle more or less isn’t going to stop anything from happening exactly the way Adonai ordains it.
