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Rabbi Dovid S. Polter, Community Chaplain
The Computer Lesson
Consider these familiar machines – the typewriter, tape recorder, television, and calculator. None of these are new but they all live within a computer. Unseen, beneath the ‘floors and behind the walls’ are cables connecting these machines to work together as one. There is technology that allows them all to speak the same language — thus transforming them from ordinary machines into a single, powerful computer.
If we apply the technology of the computer in terms of our everyday lives, we find the place at which the fragments of our lives converge, and thereby unleash their power.
We pray, conduct business, talk and eat. Each activity seems irrelevant when compared to the next. The hodgepodge of fragments is the natural psyche of the human being. We have minds that understand one way, hearts that feel another — and, often, what we do has nothing to do with either.
When we wake in the morning and realize we are created and placed here with a purpose, we can understand that nothing in our lives is irrelevant in relation to that purpose. All of our fragments converge into one harmonious whole.
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Rabbi Dovid S. Polter Jewish Community Chaplaincy Program Jewish Senior Life 248-592-5039 • dpolter@jslmi.org
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