Matzo Ball Soup For The Soul

It’s a pretty well-known Jewish tradition that Chicken Soup is almost like an cure all. 

Our moms for centuries have preached chicken soup whenever you didn’t feel well or felt like you may be coming down with something. 

Hmm…I wonder if it even works on Coronavirus. Heck, I’d try it for sure. LOL

From an alternative medicine perspective, like it says on the package:

It’s penicillin in a pot.

Anyway, I thought this package kit of matzo ball soup was pretty cute. 

With the old lady that looks like she’s about to fall in the soup saying:

Good. Not as good as mine. But good. 

Hey, I guess there is no package matzo ball soup that is going to be as good as homemade. 

Especially as I was taught that the magic ingredient is not chicken, but love!  😉

(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)

Dastardly Bastards

I sit here this morning filled with indignation for the victims of a series of brutal monsters who have committed horrific acts against children (and adults).

Last week we had the horrible terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon which left 3 dead (including an innocent 8-year old boy), almost two hundred wounded, and13 people who lost limbs (including leg amputations below the knee of a husband and wife recently married just last August ).

Then yesterday, in the Wall Street Journal, two more news events about:

1) The raping of a 5-year old girl (YES, five) in India–4 months after the gang rape on the bus that left a young women tortured and dead. This 5-year old was beaten and raped and found screaming for help and in pain with devices left inside her! The suspect a 30-something man is left on the run.

2) The trial of a late-term abortion doctor, Kermit Gosnell, charged among other things with murdering 7 infants who SURVIVED (initially) abortions he performed. This doctor or staff is said to routinely “gouge the infant’s neck with scissors to sever the spinal cord” (a method he called “snipping”). His offices were a horror lab with “blood on the floor,” urine in the air, and “fetal remains haphazardly stored throughout the clinic–in bags, milk jugs, orange-juice cartons, and even in cat-food containers.” — This is one sick person!!

While there are many people who are good, what loose nut or evil inclination drives others to terrible inhumane acts is a question that haunts us throughout the ages.

I remember learning in Jewish day school that some people act worse than animals, because while a wild animal kills for food or to protect themselves, people kill and torture for the sake of it.

Leon Kass in the article on Gosnell points out from his readings that “as science [and technology] advances, morals don’t necessarily improve; [and moreover] that the opposite might well be the case” as people’s faith in science above all else and belief in materialism as a cure of all ills replaces belief in G-d and the true mission of our souls in life.

What punishment can these people get that will really fit their crimes–when the children are left snipped, beaten, raped, and dead?

(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)