“Since late February, during the time you [son Jonah Taub, in wheelchair, with cerebral palsy and challenged to communicate verbally] were preparing for this [Bar Mitzvah], you had to deal with two major seizures, three visits to the emergency room, one outpatient EEG, a few courses of different anti-seizure meds, and culminating with three nights at UNC Hospital . . . for an EEG and MRI on top of regular schoolwork and EOG tests,” Steve Taub [father] said [during his son’s Bar Mitzvah service]. “That you managed to prepare anything under circumstances like that is quite an accomplishment. You really impressed your father. . . . My biggest job in this world is to raise a tzaddik (a righteous person) and a mentsch (a true human being). . . . You’re making that job easy.” ~Rabbi Andy Koren, “A Bar Mitzvah and Tzaddik that Won’t Be Forgotten,” news-record.com, 6/30/06
We celebrate the human spirit in dialogue with spirit. Namaste.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Righteous and Human
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Congratulations Grandpa! DM
Congratulations! Please send photo! Six! I have seven and a great-grandson will be here any day now!!! Babies are little miracles, so tiny, so precious. Are we not blessed! AR
Congratulations on the birth of Alexander Wordsworth Cock. You are two of the most prolific grandparents I know. (My I please see a photo?) RCW
Congratulations on another grandchild.
I love the reflection, too. It is always comforting to hear those words, that no job is bigger (or more important I would add) than to raise a tzaddik and a mentsch. Whenever I reflect on my own life, this gives me comfort. There have been many times when I was lost and God pointed me in the right direction...to attend to the most important task he had blessed me with, to raise my boys.
They are such a joy to behold, these righteous and true human beings. Our reward for accomplishing this task is not only to rejoice in their lives, but to have the opportunity to participate again with grandchildren.
Thanks be for this wondrous job we are given.
Peace, JH
Congratulations. Send photo! TB
Congratulations! HG
I would love to see the new arrival. Congratulations! SP
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