Ergo, our mission in life is perhaps to learn, to understand and make good choices in support of G-d’s Divine Creation – of all that is.  History teaches us that we either learn G-d’s lessons or repeat them.  How appropriate then that the term “Israel” which references our struggle to learn G-d’s quintessential lesson, indeed our collective raison de etre, G-d-willing earning reward of continued existence.

 John Fasbinder
Lenexa, Kansas


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