That was what this day of Tisha B’Av was about for me – how to get rid of the enormous social and economic and religious gaps in this country. If the temple was destroyed because of gratuitous hatred, we have not to mourn but consider how we can rid the world of gratuitous hatred.
The hatred in the world – the demonstrations, the revolutions, the fires – are not gratuitous. they emerge from great pain but they are reversible. There are ways to create responsible leadership here and in the world. In fact it is easier here. And maybe we can be the model.
Our own day was not that great – We went to the hemotologist this morning to discover that he had not seen the PET scan last week which showed the spreading of Ezi’s cancer to places where biopsies are possible. This in itself was not at all unexpected, but in the five minutes he had time for us in between the half hour of telephone calls during which we waited between sentences, he managed to blame us for not doing tests he hadn’t ordered, give us the phone number to call the surgeon to arrange the biopsy, and recommend we call him with the answers. Since he doesn’t do call backs and doesn’t answer his phone (phoner recognition) I know that despite our alacrity to obey his orders, we will have to wait a while before we get him to move.
I’m sorry Ezi and you are going thru such difficulties with health. Refuah schlemah.
And thank you for your very wise words today about how difficult things are politically.
L’shalom,
L
thank you Linda,
we should know by next week what treatment he’s going to be doing. but we’re pretty sure it’s a bone marrow transplant that is not an easy procedure.