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2 857 10_Purim 576814_David S. Devor13_devor@USA.NET31_Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:47:47 +0200713_windows-1255 B'S"D<br><br>Purim 5768<br><br>Dear Mochin Subscribers, Associates and Friends,<br><br>B"H, here it is Purim once more. As many already know, Chanukah,<br>the festival of lights, concerns the efforts of the ancient Greeks to<br>annihilate the Jewish spirit through secularism and assimilation.<br><br>Purim concerns the efforts of the ancient Persians to annihilate<br>the Jewish people also physically - genocide. The wicked Hamman,<br>"the Aggagi" (associated with the prophesied, apocalyptic war of<br>Gog and MaGog), was the offspring of the king of Amalek whom<br>King Saul, ignoring HaShem's instructions, spared. Jewish tradition<br>sees the Nazis as the recent progenitors of Amalek and [...]35_21Mar200812:47:47+0200devor@USA.NET
860 1711 38_tortoise & hare - a life & death issue14_David S. Devor13_devor@USA.NET31_Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:29:23 +0300665_windows-1255 Dear Mochin Subscribers, Associates and Friends,<br><br>Science constantly discovers new possibilities that one would think should be a basis for optimism. Yet while each discovery provides us with new options, solutions and possibilities, unfortunately, these same options are also available for destructive purposes and we should never forget that it immeasurably easier to destroy than it is to create. As we move, relentlessly, towards sophistication and complexity, this cosmic law is only enhanced so that while it is thousands of times easier to destroy a skyscraper than to build one, it is millions of times easier to destroy an advanced [...]35_29Mar200822:29:23+0300devor@USA.NET