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Have you ever felt a little bit jealous of those people that park in the Handicapped Zone; especially when you have to park so far away - or it's raining?  And maybe you're tempted because you see that no one has parked there anyhow.  How much harm could it be?  And then don't you really get ticked off when you see someone park there and they hop out of their car like they're off to play tennis?  I don't get it.  They have that blue plastic card hanging from their mirror.  But they look PERFECTLY NORMAL TO ME!!

Well no problem!!  You can now officially park in the Handicapped Zone.  Why??  Because, as we learned on page 48 today, you are officially HANDICAPPED!!

Just let your doctor know that you're part of our SA Group Call, and I'm sure he'll hand you one of those blue hangey things for your mirror too.

As we learned today, in our quest to make sense of our own personal spirituality, the Book told us in no uncertain terms that "we often found ourselves handicapped by OBSTINACY, SENSITIVENESS AND UNREASONING PREJUDICE.

Please read yesterdays email where we discussed how we are getting in the way of our own success.

And how troubling and frustrating it is for us - yes us - the Frummies, the "Orthodox" - when we are being told that we have to question our own belief in Hashem.  That we don't really believe in G-d or His Power.  Really, we have just figured out how we conveniently pull Him out of our back pocket when we need Him and quickly tuck Him back away when He gets in the way!

The Book drives home this point in our reading today and asks us to look at how stubborn and prejudice we have been and how we have practically written our own Chumash.

So let's start asking ourselves, "who is really hiding from who?"

Is G-d hiding his face from us?  Or are we hiding our faces from Him?

Let's be honest and real.  Ribono Shel Olam is not only right next to you at every moment, He is "inside" of you - begging you to COME HOME.

CYA tomorrow,
Looking FORWARD
Duvid Chaim