Mendel Bluming | Blogger

One of strange things Jews sometimes do is the wide-spread practice of "credit combing." Many Jews have a habit of flipping through the credits at the end of a movie, searching for Jewish names. At each discovery they shine with pride: Look! Assistant Staffer.......Marvin Goldstein! Catering Consultant........Beth Cohen! This odd habit comes from a very deep place in the Jewish psyche. All Jews feel a spiritual bond with each other. If I meet a Jew somewhere in the world, there is an immediate connection, a kinship, a sense of oneness. We are like one happy family, and even closer than that. When Jews are spoken about in the media, we each take it personally. When Israel is under fire, we feel the pain wherever we are. When a Jew takes home a bronze medal in croquet, we all share the victory. And when we see a Jewish name in the credits, we get heated up. Maybe other nations do this too. I doubt it. This profound sense of connection makes the Jewish nati

Every one of us is a prisoner. However, we sit on the keys. Finitude is the cell. Our prison is the universe. Our jailkeeper is the act of living. The keys to our freedom are clamped tightly in the fingers of our own egos. Menachem Mendel Bluming, Tzvi Freeman and Chabad.org