To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heavens.

G-D has made everything beautiful in its time.  (Kohelet 3:1. 3:11).

One of the symptoms of growing old is forgetting what you did yesterday – and remembering with stark clarity something you did 50 years ago!

While we may regard the loss of short-term memory associated with ageing as an ailment and an affliction, it is also possible to view the removal of the ephemeral clutter and detritus of our minds as a kind of mental liberation enabling the long-forgotten watershed memories and messages of long ago to break through.

It is no accident of the Hebrew language that the word for “eternity”, olam, stems from a root meaning “hidden.” What is hidden in the recesses of our consciousness often provides the key to our eternity.

The word olam addresses the dimension of space as well........

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