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Saving Graces

SY MANELLO

Editorial Assistant

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ur langdage is filled with
admonitions involving saving.
We are urged to Save the
W hales. Myriad products
save us time and space to say nothing
of money (maybe that's because there
' are no real savings?)"A penny saved is
a penny earned." And the list goes on.
But how many of us are packrats? Of
course you won't admit to it, but ask
yourself, "Does my stuff have stuff?"
We recently made a trip to a thrift
shop to donate rummage. I was
shamed into making the trip since I
could no longer get to the storage
cupboards in my basement which
were blocked by the boxes we had
been filling with "discards." No soon-
er did I return than I noticed another
box had appeared and begun to fill!
You still have all those wonderful
notes that you made in college, don't
you? Stop telling yourself that you'll
refer to them or need them in any form;
the textbooks they were based on were
ancient history before you graduated.
Yes, everything old may be new
again, but there is no hope for those
outfits that you were able to wear 10
years ago. Even if you could fit into
them, the style is for the less mature
figures. (How's that for putting it
nicely?) Clean out those closets.
Balls of string, balls of tin foil (ask
some WWII-era "survivors"), old
newspapers (there is such a thing as
recycling now): All these may be —
dare I say it? THROWN OUT!!
Don't argue; SAVE your breath.
Don't worry about it; SAVE your
strength. Don't ask about all those
toys in my basement; they're SAVED
for my grandchildren. II

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Off course on his transglobal trek,
An arctic tern got quite a shreck, -
Farblondget, — he found
By valgarine' round,
He's in ally drayrdn avecl*"*

* fright
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**** no man's land (idiomatic)

by Martha Jo Flesichmann

(This limerick is
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error on Aug. 6)

If On The Moon, When Would A Jew
Say The Blesssing On The Full Moon?

ur question comes to us from B'Or HaTorah, a journal

JIMAISM

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of art, science and modern life in the light of the
Torah. When Apollo 11 landed on the moon 30 years
ago, it raised questions of Halacha (Jewish law) as well as faith. Even the
Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, took notice of the historic walk
of astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin.
The first problem arose from the text of the Kiddush Ha'levana (blessing on the
full moon). Since the blessing reads, "Just as I leap toward you but cannot touch
you," some suggested changing the wording of the prayer in light of the latest sci-
entific advancements. But according to Rabbi Yitshak Yehuda Rozen, rearranging
or changing a portion of the text would present a credibility problem for the whole
prayer book. According to the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, no Kiddush Ha'levana
would be necessary for Jews living on the moon.

— Steven H Pollak

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