A personal letter to God

Thank you God for my life.
Thank you for this world, and for the state of Israel.
Thank you for the miracle of my body, and for your endless patience.
Thank you for all humans and the opportunity you gave us, to be partners in your creation to do good.
Thank you for the smallest detail that we tend to forget to thank you for, and for the largest forces that are so obedient.
Thank you for all you have given me, especially for my family and the people around me.
Thank you God for your belief in me and for the success you have given me.
Thank you God so much,

Always yours,
Oren

Final moment of Truth

Probably the most influencing movie scene I have ever seen was at the end of the Schindler’s list. It is at the end of the war when Mr. Schindler stands in front of all the Jewish prisoners he had saved from extermination, and suddenly realizes, that he could have done more to save a few more people. He, who have done so much and saved so many is ashamed and embarrassed for all these that he didn’t save. He says: “oh, I could have done more, I could have traded my car for another few lives, and this pin that I’m wearing, I could have got one more live for that”. To me this is a sheer enlightenment as I believe we are all going to feel the same one day. One day, when we will return our soul to god and stand in front of him, no matter how righteous or good-doers we believe we are today, we will have a hard time looking in the mirror and ask ourselves: “why?, why didn't we do more for more people. We had the means; we had this life and this body; we had the freedom of choice. Why didn’t we use it better for the world and its people? At least for those that were close to us, why didn’t we do more?” This feeling of Shame and Miss is going to be very unpleasant and I think that if we’ll think about it enough today, we might do more today, while we are still here in this world and have the freedom of choice. And like in the movie, when Schindler’s assistant, Itzhak Stern(Ben Kingsley) is comforting Mr. Schindler for this horrible feeling, telling him how much he did do for all these people that he saved, so will the Angels in heaven comfort our soul, reminding us of the good actions we have done while we were alive.

if you haven’t seen the movie, go see it today. If you saw it already, see it again!

And please, Do one good thing today...

Life Mathematics

A Thought I had today:

If you look back, ten generations ago, you would find that one person then is an ancestor of many people that live today. That one person gave life to a few people, who in turn gave life to others and so on. Basically ONE person then could be a common ancestor of MILLIONS of us living today. Like a big Pyramid, that widens its base every generation....

But interesting enough, the opposite Pyramid is also true. Each of us living today has two parents, and four grand parents, and eight grand grand parents, etc. If you look twenty generations ago, you will see that every ONE of us today is a combination of more than a MILLION different ancestors that lived then.

I guess that any way you look at it, you will see that we are all One Big Family.

So I want to Welcome you, my Brothers and Sisters to my new BLOG.
Oren