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Date Posted: 20:15:32 11/21/12 Wed
Author: t
Subject: fb273

Quick Jewish Quote for 2012 November 20
Tue Nov 20, 2012 6:12 am (PST) . Posted by:
"DerechEmet-owner@yahoogroups.com"
TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. quick quote about Torah
2. quick quote about nutrition and/or health
3. quick quote from Larry Winget
4. quick quote: End of the Line for descendents of Nazis
5. Say THANK YOU to HASHEM

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Sefer Netivot Olam, volume 2, chapter Bitachon, page 231:

...a person who fears [anything other than G_d]
brings sufferings on himself...

CHRONOLOGY:
Rabbi Judah Loew, the Maharal of Prague,
lived from 1525 CE to 1609 CE.

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Freckles or age spots may be reduced by rubbing with castor oil.

SOURCE: Power Aging (page 83) by Gayle Olinekova

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Even after we are diagnosed with these [medical] problems,
and are told exactly what not to eat
and exactly what we should eat,
we still eat the stuff that is bad for us;
stuff that will eventually kill us.

Do you call that intelligent? I hope not.

SOURCE: Shut Up, Stop Whining and Get a Life
(chapter 8, page 79) by Larry Winget, year 2004,
published by John Wiley & Sons Inc, Hoboken, New Jersey

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End of the Line for descendents of Nazis

Bettina Goring, grandniece of Nazi leader Hermann Goring,
says she and her brother decided not to have kids [children],
to end the [family] line....
Other children of [Nazi] perpetrators in Germany
have decided to do that.

SOURCE: 10 Questions by Belinda Luscombe,
seen in: Time Magazine, 2012/11/26, page 64 (last page)

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Thanking HASHEM for Laundry
(an original short essay by the moderator
of the Derech Emet yahoo group)

If you acknowledge the correctness of thanking HASHEM
for clothes [Baruch Atah HaShem Malbish Arumim] then
you should also be able to understand the correctness
of thanking HASHEM for laundry.
Without laundry, our clothes would soon become too dirty to wear.

Many years ago, every item of clothing had to be washed
and dried by hand, often at rivers which were sometimes
far from home. Now we have conveniently located machines
that wash and dry our clothes for us; we must THANK HASHEM
for these machines, because they free us from many hours
of boring manual labor.

When I do laundry, I often say things like this:

THANK YOU HASHEM for machines that wash and dry my clothes.

THANK YOU HASHEM that the machines are conveniently located.

THANK YOU HASHEM for giving me detergent that helps clean the clothes.

THANK YOU HASHEM for repair men who help to keep the machines working.

THANK YOU HASHEM for giving me the strength to do my own laundry.

THANK YOU HASHEM for the electricity that makes the machines work.

THANK YOU HASHEM for giving me the money that makes the machines work.

If you use a public laundry then you might also want to say:
THANK YOU HASHEM that nobody stole my laundry.

When doing laundry, have in mind that you are making your clothes clean so you can perform mitzvot correctly with clean clothes.

Have in mind that you are making your clothes clean so you can: recite berachot, and attend synagogue, and go to work to support yourself honestly, and do acts of kindness, and study Torah.
These things are difficult or impossible without clean clothes.

I once heard an Orthodox Rabbi say:
Every time you change a diaper for a baby,
you are performing the mitzvah of malbish arumim
[clothing the naked].

If you do laundry for an entire family, then have in mind
that your are enabling an entire family to perform mitzvot
by making their clothes wearable.

If you think that this is too much, then please consider
Tehillim, chapter 34, verse 2:
I WILL ACKNOWLEDGE HASHEM AS THE SOURCE OF ALL BLESSINGS
AT ALL TIMES, HIS PRAISE WILL ALWAYS BE IN MY MOUTH.

If you possess the correct understanding,
doing laundry can be a spiritual experience :-)

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