It has been about three weeks now that every time I get into the car, the top story is about Anna Nicole Smith. Of course, being a Rabbi, I don’t really delve much into that area of society. But after all this hoopla and fanfare I felt that I had to say something.
WHO CARES!
I was going to stop there but I can’t resist.
I know that we all don’t care about it and you might read the latest update for entertainment purposes, but Iv’e always liked a quote from Mitch Album in his book “The Five People You Meet in Heaven”, (about parenting) " All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."
Not to go into a lecture about parenting, but the idea is there. Every interaction/relationship leaves its mark.
What ever we do, say, think, dream and even see, has an affect on us. It may be small and we might not notice the difference, but it is there. A positive thought leaves a positive mark on our brain. A positive word leaves a positive mark on our mouth. And the opposite about the other types of thoughts.
The Kaballah writes that every action we do creates an angel. A Prayer makes a positive angel and a misdeed makes a negative angel. When The Day comes and we face the True Judge, we wont give testimony about ourselves. All the angels that we have created throughout our life time will stand up and voice their opinion about the defenfant.
The angel which was created by doing a Mitzvah full of passion and good intent will serve as a great defense attorney. On the other hand no one will pay much attention to the angel who was crafted out of a prayer which was lacking in concentration while doing 4 other important things.
The gossip angel is a mean prosecuter as opposed to the one that came out of a smaller offense.
So every thing has an affect. All energy turns into other forms of energy (thanks Einstein).
Let us not have such ‘celebrities’ end up in our story line – for whatever reason.
Happy Purim!