Inside Job

The source of all our problems is our in correct perception. We perceive ourselves as separate individuals who can do what we please for self-benefit.
In reality everything is interconnected and interdependent. We are like a body that must give and take to maintain health and homeostasis.
We need to change our perception from individual to global. We see how our world becomes increasingly chaotic and out of control when everybody thinks egoistically.

What I do ripples through everything for good or bad. This must be our new perception.
Our new paradigm must be holistic. Reply

Before we begin the healing of the earth, surely we should begin by ceasing to keep doing it damage. The 14 Most General Negations to Global-Warming, Zoological Loss, Disease and Pollution

Unfortunately no leader in an authoritarian and effective position gives sufficiently enforceable, instructions, directions and orders for stopping the disastrous effects of various factors that are ruining our existence and will do so even more of our descendants. These factors combine in the over-consumption of animals and their products, the misuse of fossil fuels, herbicides and insecticides, the wastage of opportunity from useful sites of land, the burning of natural vegetative growth, the use of self-abusive addictive drugs, the spreading of diseases (from ignorance), and the misplacement of single-use plastic containers. These effects cause pollution, disruption and destruction of our planet’s natural bounty and of our fellow men and women. Our situation on earth is becoming impossible. Reply

Tornado response I'm glad my explanation helped a little. I sort of ran out of room for more typing.

I should have added that tornados are very similar to hurricanes and have similar ratings - both are horrible in terms of devastation. Reply

toronado response thanks for explaining F5 toronado Reply

F5 Tornado To the best of my memory, it was on 5-21-13 (we had so many in a week that it's hard to keep track.) At any rate, this one hit in the afternoon. wiped out a hospital and two elementary schools; the area hit looked like an atomic bomb hit it; I can't remember the death count. (Our OKC Chabad website has a lot of pictures and a video on the aftermath.) A year later, in spite of rebuilding efforts, it is still bad.

On the initial response, cases of water and easily storable food was taken to victims and the first responders who were doing a house by house search for survivors. A lot of our volunteers got down and dirty in debris removal. Financial aid was also provided, as well as comfort and just a listening ear or a hug.

People tend to forget that pets are also impacted by devastating storms of this magnitude; several portable "shelters" were established so people could find their pets. People and merchants donated food for the care of the animals and many people fostered them. Reply

F5 Toronado dear Karin Kruger

i dont always have time for the News...so
please forgive me
for my ignorance.
i think you make good points but =what F5 toronado ?
or which toronado??
and what work was needed to be done?
you left out some important details for me to understand it
GG, M.D. Reply

"Nobody can come from the outside, stay outside, and make real, lasting, beneficial change."

The final sentence expresses why so many for aid programs fail miserably and why the Peace Corps has been so successful. Chabad, too, exemplifies this - I watched Rabbi Goldman lead a group to Moore after the devastating F5 tornado last year. I asked him if he had attended a meeting and his reply was "who has time for meetings when there is work to be done?" ... seeing mitzvot put into action is a far more powerful lesson than I ever learned from studies.

My answer to Zak's question on how does one know when to repair would very simply be one repairs when something is broken or damaged ... not everything that is broken is at the level of an F5 tornado, but if one looks, one will find small things that fulfil putting action into mitzvot. Reply

Imagine It The purpose of Creation is to attain Equivalence of form with the Creator -
to 'treat thy friend as thyself' - to rise above the self to a higher level of existence to feel as 'one man with one heart'.
Gradually He will implant clues within the minds intent on imagining It
until everybody is able to realize It. Reply

wisdom to fix Haaretz good one....keep them coming

look forward to the book

Chabad is the Best Reply

In and out unity How does one know when to repair, as He knows what works.
That which works is its purpose of creation.
So how does a creation repair its self?
It compares itself to the image it was made from. Reply