As some of you know I attended the same summer camp for 12 years. Many of these, especially the early ones were painful and lonely. Recently I’ve participated in efforts to build a web-site community for the camp’s alumni. Many of the old feelings get stirred up as I hob-nob with old friends and acquaintances. All this informed my study of Joseph for a talk in shul this weekend.
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D’var Torah means “words of Torah”. Typically given before the assembly after prayers and the reading of the week’s bible portion. This was written after the Terrorist Attack on 9/11 in preparation for my wedding on 9/16 2001. It was reworked for posting on 9/21/2001. Today it migrates to ZebraTalk.

Martin Buber says in Ten Rungs:

“When a man is singing and cannot lift his voice and another comes and sings with him, another who can lift his voice, the first will be able to lift his voice too. That is the secret of the bond between spirits. ”
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Tonight on Hidden Camera we take you to the world of fairies. A world thrust into upheaval by the sudden fall of the Great Fairy Godmother and the meteoric, some say suspicious, rise of Little Rabbit Foo Foo. But who is this Foo Foo? Our sources paint a grim picture of a belligerent bunny with a violent reputation for which, fifteen years ago he was turned into a goon. Tonight, he addresses a special session of the fairy assembly. Our Hidden Camera reporter takes you, live, to Fairy Hall:
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Sensible Email Exchange. I suppose I could also have billed this talk “Eliminating Email Embarrassment” or “Email, the self immolation machine.”

Abe Lincoln got it right: “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
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Jutting into the south-east corner of lake Tiorati is an elbow of land known as “The Point”. The rocky bottom edge of the summer camp of my childhood. Let me take you there.
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