Posted by Lou Pilder on November 25, 2010, at 11:25:09 [reposted on November 26, 2010, at 3:12:27 | original URL]
In reply to Lou's reply-hzbludbheuhpnuz » SheilaC, posted by Lou Pilder on November 16, 2010, at 16:16:40
Friends,
It is written here about {'saving souls'} and about that that could be a {burden} to Jews that accept the commandments from God to them as written in the scriptures that the Jews use in their service and worshiop to the god that they cherish as in Exodus 20.
Now as a Jew I have posted here that my overiding concern for me is to save lives. We Jews when we hold up the glass with the fruit of the vine, we say,{L'Chaim}, which means {"to life"}.
There is a lot that Jews believe about life that I can not post here. But there are other Jews that have saved millions and going on billions of lives and then trillions with their life's dedication that I have never seen them saying that what they were doing was a burden, but a mitzvah that they were doing to please the God that they gave service and worship to.
Here is a link to the life of Jonas Salk, born to Jewish immigrants and developed the life-saving vaccine for polio. I and you may be alive today because of the work of Jonas Salk.
Lou
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas Salk
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