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Do you ever look at old photos and stare into the faces of each person in the photo, and wonder where all the time has gone? Do you ever look at some of those old photos and gasp at how some of the people in them are now dead? Did you ever look at old photos of New York and wonder what life was like back then, when men would nod and tip their hats in greeting to women on the street? Sometimes it just takes a color of the sky, or a smell on the wind, for a particular

Who will I have become when I die? Did I do well? What did I accomplish? Will anyone mourn? Who will curse my decomposing flesh? Who will remember my laugh? Will anyone place a stone at my grave? How will I be remembered? Who will say kaddush when I die? What will be my legacy? I want to have made an impact. Yet, even now, no one knows my name.

It is difficult, after having read Rob Eshman’s heartbreaking article And Who Shall Die? via Rick Richman of JPundit, to not think about Marcy Asher and HaShem and life and its mysteries and cruelties. In one of my favorite books, 9 Questions People Ask About Judaism, I can try to extrapolate and apply a similar theorem that just because bad things happen does not prove that God does not exist, and just because good things happen does not prove that God does exist. So how do we review Marcy’s life? How do we regard HaShem in light of Marcy’s tragic

I think it is disreputable for some bloggers who believe they are the police for the JBlogosphere to troll other JBlog websites, and then impugne those other bloggers on their own blog in cryptic, shallow posts, just so that they can feel better about themselves.