The Rabbi Said: "We Are Surrounded By 15,000 Angels."

Chanukah, Chanukah, Dreidel, Dreidel, who is to sing, who must not, humming, or no humming, who lights the candles, who must not, at my home we ask for volunteers. Speak up or forever hold your peace. Peace which becomes no one else's peace. Women excluded again at the Western Wall menorah lighting ceremony. People sending me Peace greetings cards but warring everyday. Israel dropping leaflets from the sky before battles of defense. Proverbs warning against gift-taking, "Smart people do not take gifts." Giving gifts to the poor in black plastic garbage bags instead of gift-wrapping. How many points does your star have--5 or 6? A greater number of points because of a greater number of Commandments to follow. He gave her a job, she ate my candy, but she scoffs at our religious ritual clothing and says "We are not angels." Her hair is bleached blonde by a scorching sun and her skin burns easily. We try to heal her burns but she is burning inside. Be Slow To Anger, but what if your parents blamed you for everything instead of admitting their faults and correcting their mistakes, practice, practice, practice. Don't blow up like a stream kettle, find a way to communicate. Cannot communicate, find someone to communicate for you. She will not listen to your hired communicator, not negotiating for peace means war. Middle East Peace Talks. What happens when they stop talking, rockets fly and people are killed. Living with a stranger who is just like you. She is not as strange as you think. "Don't talk to strangers." 'Don't take candy from a stranger." But what if she will not talk to you or give you any candy? Where will you get it, who will you talk to? Purification process, cleanness in all things... walking in innocence in one's home. If I was not clean, I would be guilty. Bathing everyday, took my mikvah, no booze or cigarettes on my breath. She was hired by him and now has a job, and ate my candy, but she does not see us as angels. Is this because she is unclean, and is not an angel herself--The Torah says "Balaam beat his ass 3x and did not see the angel when she was standing right in front of him." Avraham saw the angels and heard them and obeyed them: and Isaac lived to see another day, dor v' dor, and we all did. "15,000 angels around me all the time," seeing them, hearing them, obeying them, in order to live a long happy life.