We
live in a "throwaway society." Everything is about youth! So many
products are created or in most cases tweaked to push back the hands of time.
Skin treatments, plastic surgery, body contouring, instant weight loss
miracles. The latest craze is testosterone, the answer to everything.
Everything is done to avoid aging and getting "old." It seems when a
worker reaches 50 years old, they are considered obsolete, useless, especially
when a company can hire younger workers cheaper. There is a great difference
between being smart and being wise. Hopefully we become wiser as we age. Being
old is not a crime. The real crime is the treatment of these workers and
people. Read Rabbi Leynor’s blog at -- http://tovcenter.blogspot.com/2014/08/should-they-be-remembered-honored-or.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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