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Islam's vision

There is a reason that our national motto is, *"IN GOD WE TRUST."*

Sunday, December 7th, 1941—

Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in Washington D.C.  He was paged and told there was a phone call for him. When he answered the phone, it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He told Admiral Nimitz that he would now be the Commander of the Pacific Fleet.

Admiral Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of the Pacific Fleet, landing at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1941.  There was such a spirit of despair, dejection and defeat, you would have thought the Japanese had already won the war.  On Christmas Day, 1941, Adm. Nimitz was given a boat tour of the destruction wrought on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, big sunken battleships and navy vessels cluttering the waters everywhere you looked.

As the tour boat returned to dock, the young helmsman of the boat asked, "Well Admiral, what do you think after seeing all this destruction?"

Admiral Nimitz's reply shocked everyone within the sound of his voice.

Admiral Nimitz said, "The Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could ever make, or God was taking care of America.  Which do you think it was?"

Shocked and surprised, the young helmsman asked, "What do mean by saying the Japanese made the three biggest mistakes an attack force ever made?"  

Nimitz explained: *Mistake number one:*  the Japanese attacked on Sunday morning. Nine out of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave. If those same ships had been lured to sea and been sunk--we would have lost 38,000 men instead of 3,800.  

*Mistake number two:*  when the Japanese saw all those battleships lined in a row, they got so carried away sinking those battleships, they never once bombed our dry docks opposite those ships. If they had destroyed our dry docks, we would have had to tow everyone of those ships to America to be repaired.  As it is now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised.. One tug can pull them over to the dry docks, and we can have them repaired and at sea by the time we could have towed them to America. And I already have crews ashore anxious to man those ships.  

*Mistake number three:*  Every drop of fuel in the Pacific theater of war is on top of the ground in storage tanks five miles away over that hill.  One attack plane could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel supply.  That's why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could make, or God was taking care of America.  

Admiral Nimitz was able to see a silver lining in a situation and circumstance where everyone else saw only despair and defeatism. President Roosevelt had chosen the right man for the right job. We desperately needed a leader that could see silver linings in the midst of the clouds of dejection, despair and defeat.  

There is a reason that our national motto is, *"IN GOD WE TRUST."*  

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Happiness: What Needs to Change So That We Feel Better, Get Better, and Stay Better?

Happiness: What Needs to Change So That We Feel Better, Get Better, and Stay Better?
by Chantal Beaupre
Imagine for a moment that you're sick and you go see a doctor to explain what you are suffering from.
After having listened to you carefully, the doctor says, “All right. I have interpreted your symptoms. Do you know what we are going to do? I will prescribe medication to your neighbor!”
– Thanks a million, doctor. I already feel much better,” do you say.
If you’re like me, you most probably find this hypothetical story completely absurd. And yet, this story is a perfect reflection of what we all do. We imagine that we will feel better, get better, and stay better if someone else changes, if some circumstances of our lives change.
We think: I would be much happier if this or that person changed. I would be much happier if my neighbor changed, my romantic partner changed, my boss changed, my clients changed, my children changed.
We also think: I would be much happier if this or that situation changed. I would be much happier if I had more money in my bank account, if I lost a few pounds, if my business was more successful, if I was better at writing and public speaking, if the weather was warmer and sunnier.
We erroneously believe that we are going to feel better, get better, and stay better only when someone else will have changed, only when a situation will have changed.
But what would really happen if this or that person changed? What would really happen if this or that situation changed? Alas, we would find ourselves to be as vulnerable as before. We are the ones who need to change. In reference to our hypothetical story, we are the ones who need medication.
Remember this: We do not feel good because all is well in our world. All is well in our world because we feel good. The way to change things in our lives is to first change ourselves. That’s what the mystics and the most prominent teachers keep repeating over and over again since the beginning of time.

Let's blame the Jews

“What Does It Mean to Be a Jew?”

“What Does It Mean to Be a Jew?”

 by Gutman Locks

     A “reform” Jew walked up to the Kotel with his young son. I knew that he was reform from the brand-new tallesim (prayer shawls) that he had in his hand. They were about 12 inches wide. According to halacha (Jewish law), to qualify for tzitzis (Biblical fringes), a garment has to cover the majority of a man’s body, which means that a tallis has to be a lot wider than 12 inches.

     I walked up to them and invited them to put on tefillin. The father said, “No, we are not going to do that.”

     I tried a number of things to get him to agree, but he refused them all. Finally, trying to get rid of me, he said, “This morning was my son’s bar mitzvah, so we do not need to put on tefillin.”

     I said to the son, “Oh, mazal tov. How wonderful! Did you put on tefillin this morning?”

     He had not. I tried to convince the son, who was a lot softer than his father. Finally, the man asked his son if he wanted to do it. The boy really did not know what we were talking about, but maybe, out of curiosity, he nodded softly and said, “Alright.”

     I put tefillin on them and explained in a loving way what tefillin are and why we put them on. I walked them to the Kotel and showed them how to pray for their loved ones. The father wanted them to put on their tallesim. Normally, I would have tried to talk him out of making a blessing on those tiny tallesim, but I could see that it would have really hurt his feelings, so I helped them to put them on.

     They had a very good time. I stood behind them, where they could not see me and watched how the father taught his son to kiss his tzitzits. It felt very warm to see.

     When they finished, they turned around, and the boy saw his mother standing on a chair looking over the mechitza (screen that divides the men and women) and taking pictures of them. She was radiantly happy, and the boy loved seeing his mother like that.

     I asked the boy if he had any questions about G-d, the Torah, or anything that I could explain to him. He thought for a minute, and then he asked me something that he must recently have been asked, “Yes, I have a question,” he said. “What does it mean to be a Jew?”

     I said, “Really, what it means to be a Jew is just that your mother is Jewish. This is why it is so important for you to marry a Jewish girl… so your children will be Jewish. But I think that you are really asking a different question. I think what you want to know is, ‘What is a Jew supposed to do?’”

     I explained, “Jews are a unique people in the world. For instance, even though only one out of 510 people in the world is Jewish, one out of four Noble Prize winners is Jewish. This shows that Jews were given a large amount of intelligence. We were also given a large amount of kindness. These are two things that Jews were given extra portions.”

     “But what really makes our religion different than many other religions is that many other religions teach that in order to become spiritually successful, you have to withdraw from the world. The Torah teaches to become spiritually successful, we have to go out into the world and elevate it. We have to make the world a better place.” When he heard this he smiled widely. It really touched his heart. It was what he wanted to hear.

     There are so many things that we can learn from this story, but perhaps the most important one is that the father absolutely refused to put on tefillin. It was something repulsive in his eyes, and he was teaching this repulsiveness to his young son. But when he was shown how to put them on in a loving way, both he and his son had a wonderful, even spiritual, time. He didn’t want to take them off!

     I am not blaming the father. He was just reflecting what he had been taught about the strictness of “Jewish law.” But, someone out there is doing something wrong if a Jewish man and his bar mitzvah boy would never have put on tefillin in their lives unless that false way of learning Torah was corrected.

     Again, I am asking you. Do you know any other fathers and sons like this? It is such a sad waste for these Jews not to have the advantage doing of this mitzvah. Is there any way that you can help them?

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