(8) Yisroel Pollack, 2/7/2008
Disconcerting Indignation
If Ms. Housman feels so strongly about doing the right thing, why does she do the obviously wrong thing of openly berating an upstanding and dignified individual of high caliber, whose ideas she seems unable to comprehend? Why does she bring her gripes to an entirely other forum and not just have it out with HIM directly?

(7) Gary, 1/7/2008
Oh what a coincidence!
When I was around 14 years old I gave money and walked for Parkinson's Disease in New York's Central Park.

I knew no one who was afflicted with the disease, and my reason for giving was that I wanted it to stay that way. I didn't want anyone in my family afflicted with it.

Lori is so empathetic she must have realized this about my life. I feel since I have no affiliation with a synogogue she is like my rebbetzin

(6) ruth housman, 1/7/2008
making it more than personal
Dear Lori,
I have been writing almost continuously, in response to articles at Aish.com and I have remarked that so rarely, if ever, are there articles about the environment, about this most beautiful creation. I spend many hours responding to pleas on line from a host of environmental organizations and I am so concerned about the degradation of this, our collective home and about what we are doing that is beyond cruel, which will inevitably and is now affecting us all, from issues of pollution, toxic waste, the water supply world-wide, to the degradation of the rain forest, and the extinction of animal, insect and vegetation.

I just heard Rabbi Salomon speak on line, below, in this Aish broadcast of articles and pieces and I am so totally bereft, feeling so upset, because he is referring to SOUL as if animals, as if all creation is not reverberating with life, with "anima" which means "soul". It is such arrogance to speak as he just did and with such assurance and I would say smug assurance. This creation includes the animals and I would say, anyone, ANYONE, who reveres and respects God and this universe we inhabit will know about soul and how wrong it is, how arrogant, how cruel, how totally misguided are these words.

If this is the mindset of Aish and its contributors, it's time for me to stop.
I cannot condone these words and for me, there's a deep Biblical meaning to the naming of the animals, to our very lives, that connect in this gold thread to all beating hearts.

I am stopping my emails to Aish. It's too much to hear words like this on line because the truth is the beauty and strength of recognition that we're all ONE and all in this together. God created this beautiful world so we will reverence, respect and love, all creation.

Ruth Housman
Newton Centre, MA