My
two sons and I were watching a show on the Science Channel about the latest
technology and recent scientific developments -- 3-D printing, androids (Geminarians), cyborg suits which allow the paralyzed
to walk again, artificial limbs controlled by our brain waves using a structure
to grow stem cells into organs and body parts!!! When you think about it, humans can be
amazingly creative. I would even go as far as to say, we have the technology to
solve most of the world's problems. No, I'm not caught up in waiting for some
"Messiah." If humans could figure out how to tap human potential, it
would be a very different world. Read Rabbi Leynor’s latest blog at -- http://tovcenter.blogspot.com/2014/08/our-collective-tov-potential-is-waiting.html
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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