MELANIE PHILLIPS: Time is running out for the West.

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Rabbi Josh Snyder: Without time, nothing happens

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||Be yourself. If i’m not like you it doesn’t mean i’m supposed to be. Even posting this is because i FEEL like it. That’s Dao. Western religionists need more Dao in their Derekh and Deen. The Dalai Lama doesn’t need to stop throwing snow balls.||

~ מיכה בן דוד נזירי

Rabbi Josh Synder: There are between 400 and 1000 Jews in Kaifeng today

Rabbi Joshua Bolton:

There are peoples who resemble the stars of the nighttime sky – uncountable.

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I stand on a hill in Philadelphia toward evening, staring eastward – beyond the setting sun – far eastward. I begin to hear the rush of a billion lives. A billion dinners prepared. A billion shoe laces being tied. A billion groans at night. A billion doors creaking open, gently clicked shut.

Back on this hill, I am undetectable. My voice is barely a voice. Were I to scream to hundreds, even thousands at a single moment, it would be a quiet whisper against the roaring noise of life.

A stupendously huge array of lives – as vast as the stars of the nighttime sky.

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Shema Kedem

My sister, Mercy banned children from her wedding (except for ceremony participants), but our Gangsta cousins from Queens defied her judgment and smuggled their Mestizo kids of Irish, Puerto Rican, and them some, extraction, respectively. She was pissed, but got over it. Just another example of Pilipinim Pomp and Defiant Preservation amidst Extraneous Circumstances.

Bonus Serendipity

‎"I'm against hitting children, but I swear to JB I would have knocked that kid to the ground if I were there. Totally ruins the pureness of the performance! Still epic though, like UST always is! Keep up the good work and put a sign 'forbidden for toddlers' in front of the stage next time you perform!" @MissSuzy0703 The child's unencumbered voice is endearing and appreciated.