| From the Desk of Rabbi Dan Moskovitz |
Adapted excerpt from Rabbi Moskovitz' Kol Nidrei sermon delivered at the West Campus.
When I was a child the lessons learned from the last great economic crisis were selfevident every time you walked into my Grandparent’s home. In their house you never threw anything away, my Papa had drawers filled with loose plastic bags and rubber bands that he saved from the newspaper. A toolbox was always near by to fix things that today we might just throw away and buy new. My grandmother would greet my mother with an envelop of coupons that she had clipped from the paper for items our family would regularly purchase. Bottles and cans were saved not for the environment but for the pennies and nickels they were worth. My grandparents were middle class, owned their own home, had a car and a business – they were not poor, but they knew what poor was and that memory informed their values and their behaviors.
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