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Reward & Punishment
In this world, God is sending us messages.
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October 13, 2007
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About the Author
Mrs. Lori Palatnik
Lori Palatnik is a writer and Jewish educator who has appeared on television and radio, and is the author of "Friday Night and Beyond: The Shabbat Experience Step-By-Step," "Remember My Soul - What to do in Memory of a Loved One," and co-author of "Gossip: 10 Pathways to Eliminate It From Your Life and Transform Your Soul." She is a much sought-after international speaker, having lectured in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, U.K., Central America, South America, South Africa and Israel, including featured talks at Yale, Brown and Penn. She lives in the Washington D.C. area, with her husband, Rabbi Yaakov Palatnik. Lori is the Founder of The Jewish Women's Renaissance Project, an international initiative that brings over 1,000 women to Israel each year from ten different countries on highly subsidized programs to inspire them with the beauty and wisdom of their heritage. She is the busy mother of five children, ages 24 to 14; and her son, Zev, just finished serving as a sharpshooter in the IDF. Her weekly video blog, "Lori Almost Live" is a popular feature on aish.com, viewed by over 50,000 people each month.
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(8) Anonymous, October 27, 2007 5:28 PM
Nu?
I think I agree with this partially. I have had some wonderful, wonderful answers to prayer, others have (thankfully) not been answered...but as for the trials I face now, I know neither how to deal with them or how to interpret them...so my question to Lori would be, so, okay, HOW do we LISTEN? Thanks for the commentary, now for the follow-up?
(7) lida, October 16, 2007 7:50 PM
Ms. Lori what you call that when you donate some mony to the community and a few days after your skooter that you worked for it has been stolen?what is the massage?
(6) shlomo elspas, October 16, 2007 6:09 PM
love it
Big fan. Love your inspired and inspiring vid clip each week.
(5) Orrin Kom, October 16, 2007 5:10 PM
G-d Sends Messages?
Did G-d send 6 million messages druing the 19302 and 40s? Did G-d send messages to the people today who found out they have inoperable cancer or Alzheimer's?
(4) ruth housman, October 16, 2007 5:03 PM
messsages
an interesting perspective on the bad things that happen and on the good things that happen in life
I think there's more to this story. it is true that the phoenix rises from the ashes and it is true that out of bad often comes opportunity and the same for windfalls and yes, these could be messages. But if God is creating all these messages then surely it is our very lives that are being thus governed. So what moves us? what makes the car tires go flat? It's all God then, to protract the logic.
As to the next world. No. I don't think we are rewarded and punished. I see this as a journey of the soul and as we go through, we are learning all the time and life has this curve and we are, each of us, in terms of this curve on different "rungs" as rung is to bell and bell is to curve. I am seeing the deepest answers lie in language itself.