Yup

As I was unloading my car from my first Mishkon gig of the season, this guy who just came back from yeshiva walked by and we were talking. At the end of the conversation I asked him: "What are you doing next year?"

"Y.U." he responded.

"Uh, my Alma Matter."

Change Versus Fixing

At graduation I had a thought which I tweeted, but this morning I had an enhancement of that thought, and being that I find myself in a pretty boring morning here on the aliyah pilot trip, I figured that I shall post about it.

In English we often hear about change. In college you hear about changing the world; Barak Obama received the votes of the American nation by promising change.

However, in Judaism, we have the notion of tikun olam, fixing the world. Not everything needs to be changed. Firstly, the change that everyone hopes for does not always come, and other times the change that is brought about is not desired in the end.

An example: I have been told that at one point, coke desired to change their recipe and they spent a lot of money in advertisement, and in the end, the change was not desired and they switched it back to the original.

However, if I told you that I would like to enhance bazooka bubble gum so that the flavor lasted for twenty minutes instead of the few minutes that it does, I think that people would support me.

I love you,

Sruli