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April, 2002
From the Rabbi’s Desk
Presents
Monica Posy McMillen
No Charge
Refreshments
One of the major paradoxes of life
is that we all need meaning in life,
but this need for meaning can also
cause great suffering. We all need
to be attached to something more
than ourselves. This attachment
We saw this with the suicide bombers. These young
men did not destroy the Twin Towers and part of
the Pentagon because they were desperate,
depressed individuals mired in poverty. They all
came from the best families. Most of them came
from the finest families in Saudi Arabia. They had
a good education. They had wonderful families.
They had good incomes. They had everything to
live for, but their devotion to their ideal, the
triumph of Islam according to their Wahabi
interpretation of Islam, demanded that they destroy
the United States so that Islam could take over the
world.
When G-d created the world, we learn that He had
to withdraw to make room for the world, but He is
still constantly sending down His Sefah, His
beneficence to us. He is constantly trying to
convince us to follow the right path, not for His
sake but for our sake. He, though, did not have to
do this. He could have, by being an open, active
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to something more than ourselves leads to the
development of such wonderful traits as devotion,
dedication, loyalty, etc. It is the basis for family
life and creating a civil society, but it also can wreak
havoc and cause terrible destruction in the world.
Religion is built on this quest for meaning, as well
as are most philosophies. We need, as human
beings, to give and to be able to attach ourselves to
others and to worthy causes. The problem is that if
we attach ourselves too deeply to what we
consider a worthy cause, we can cause destruction
and the loss of thousands and even millions of lives.
How do we balance this need for dedication and
devotion with a holding back which will allow us to
be attached but not too attached, dedicated but not
too dedicated so that we will not cause harm to
others? Too much dedication leads to death and
suffering.
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