I
was meeting with a friend of mine recently, Joyce Ann Tepley. She wrote a book
that I would highly recommend called, "Thriving
Through It" - How They Do It, What It Takes to Transform Trauma Into
Triumph. (Amazon has it). Joyce retired from a forty-year career as a
clinical social worker and dedicated the rest of her life to honoring those who
thrive through adversity, by telling their stories. Twenty people from all
walks of life were interviewed for the book. They tell their own stories in
their own words about what it takes to thrive through the most difficult times
in their lives. Joyce herself, has dealt with Polio and a host of other
physical problems and she is also a thriver! One of the things I found most
interesting about the book was the great insight into how people chose to
respond to what life brought. Read Rabbi Leynor’s complete blog at http://tovcenter.blogspot.com/2015/06/thriving-is-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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