America
is a very complex place in which highly technical things affect the lives of
Americans. Many Americans could not begin to describe what derivatives are or what
financialization means -- even though these
very powerful economic forces affect almost every aspect of life today. All
we have to do is look around and it is obvious that people are plugged into the
Internet everywhere. How many of them understand how it works and who is in control
of the information flowing into their smartphones and computers. Forget trying
to explain what’s going on in the political, legal and medical domains of life.
Yet all of those things combined control our lives in many ways -- options to succeed that we have or barriers
that block us from success – and making the structural changes that must be
made to repair our nation. Read the complete blog at http://tovcenter.blogspot.com/2015/06/we-cant-fix-what-we-cant-see.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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