The ancient Rabbinic Sages Taught: "Ayne Kemach, Ayne Torah",
essentially, if there's not food (bread), there can be no learning. A school
kitchen manager in a Denver school district was fired recently. Her terrible
Crime? She gave free lunches to some hungry students who did not have any
money, some who were chronically hungry without funds. Others, she paid for
their lunches out of her own money. This
woman lives her Values! She could have been safe just "Following Orders", instead she chose to Do TOV. Read Rabbi Leynor’s
blog at -- http://tovcenter.blogspot.com/2015/06/a-school-kitchen-manager-teaches-us-tov.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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