Bonus:
“It was for this reason that man was first created as one person [Adam], to teach you that anyone who destroys a life is considered by Scripture to have destroyed an entire world; and anyone who saves a life is as if he saved an entire world.” And also, to promote peace among the creations, that no man would say to his friend, “My ancestors are greater than yours.” And also, so that heretics will not say, “there are many rulers up in Heaven.” And also, to express the grandeur of The Holy One [blessed be He]: For a man strikes many coins from the same die, and all the coins are alike. But the King, the King of Kings, The Holy One [blessed be He] strikes every man from the die of the First Man, and yet no man is quite like his friend. Therefore, every person must say, “For my sake the world was created.”
Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5
God loves each man as if he were the only one.
It’s baffling to me how some of our neighbors are moved superficially only at the content of man’s pinnacle moment. Some can’t stand to watch The Passion of The Christ because they only see the depressing moments. They have difficulty seeing the offering, sacrifice and selfless acts as anything worthwhile.
Schindler’s List is an incredible journey into the darkest caverns of man and at the same time the incomprehensible light that penetrates that darkness, overcoming it and exposing the core of man’s being.
What is man?
Hopefully every man seeks to answer that question on a daily basis, at every moment of every decision. Depressing?
Encouraging, as that man see’s the life of others as sacred. Our existence as gifts to others. Not a scourge to others. Schindler’s List is an important history lesson but much more than that.
It’s a example of Hope in hopeless situations.
It’s a example of Hope in hopeless situations.
Yes, and yet, after the Holocaust, after Israel being surrounded by hostile neighbors since 1948, after multiple wars after which Israel entered into peace agreements and after October 7 where Hamas celebrated murder and rape ON VIDEO, we have self interested nihilists populating “seats of higher learning” yelling “from the river to the sea…” They should be locked into the buildings they occupy and forced to watch the Hamas videos on endless loop.
Some things never change.
They should be locked into the buildings they occupy and forced to watch the Hamas videos on endless loop.
Some things never change. -LKL
One University ran that loop on their campus.
Im in total agreement with you, btw.
https://www.newsweek.com/ucla-campus-protests-hamas-israel-gaza-1895666
This is the plaque on the wall of a building in Regensburg, Germany. It is the only acknowledgment of his residence there.
Regensburg was also the boyhood home of Pope Benedict.
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